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Chargement... Dark Hollow (1914)par Anna Katharine Green
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Green was the author of The Leavenworth case, which is considered to be an American mystery classic of sorts, but this book is just plain indigestible. The story centers around a the murder of a respectable citizen. His murderer, a disreputable tavern owner with a reputation for violence, is caught, tried and hanged, but the lives of the central figures around the trial--the judge, who was also the victim's best friend, the tavern owner's wife and child, the judge's son--are never the same again. After some years, the widow returns, convinced that her husband was not guilty and, seeking justice for him and respectability for her daughter, begins to open old wounds. If that sounds interesting in theory, the execution wrings every drop of movement from the story. The prose is turgid and melodramatic. By the end of the novel, only one possible suspect could have done it and the conclusion is mildly interesting but not worth dragging yourself through the book for. I found it icky and depressing. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: Delve into the depths of psychological suspense in this gripping mystery from Anna Katharine Green, author of The Leavenworth Case. An innkeeper is detained, tried and ultimately executed for a horrifying murder. Many years later, a mysterious woman pays a visit to the judge who presided over the case, identifying herself as the wife of the executed prisonerâ??and insisting that he was wrongfully convicted. Will she be able to produce proof to back up her claim? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Now Reuther Averill (Scoville) and Oliver Ostrander, the Judges son, were to have married but on finding out the truth of her father, Reuther withdrew. Now Mrs Scoville wants to prove her husband innocent so that the offspring can marry.
So who did kill Algernon Etheridge.
An enjoyable crime story originally published in 1914 ( )