Viac o knihe
One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. Mrs. Hargreave III is whiling away her time at patience. And Miss Rosemary Travis and her friend, Dorothy, are wondering which of their housemates will be the next to die.For even as Michael Dibdin's elderly sleuths debate clues and motives, it becomes clear that Eventide Lodge is not a genteel country inn but a place of ghastly cruelties and humiliations. A place where the logic of murder is . . .almost comforting . At once affectionate homage and audacious satire, The Dying of the Light will delight any aficionado of Patricia Highsmith, Peter Dickinson, or Ruth Rendell.
Nákup knihy
Vintage Crime: The Dying of the Light, Michael Dibdin
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 1995
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- Vintage Crime: The Dying of the Light
- Podtitul
- A Mystery
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Michael Dibdin
- Vydavateľ
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Rok vydania
- 1995
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0679753109
- ISBN13
- 9780679753100
- Série
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Detektívky, Súčasná literatúra, Poviedky, Napätie, USA, 20. storočie, Vraždy, Sviatky, Britská literatúra, Anglicko, Detektív, Krimi séria, Tajomné, mysteriózne, Polícia, Noir, Sérioví vrahovia, Kriminalita, Cozy literatúra
- Anotácia
- One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. Mrs. Hargreave III is whiling away her time at patience. And Miss Rosemary Travis and her friend, Dorothy, are wondering which of their housemates will be the next to die.For even as Michael Dibdin's elderly sleuths debate clues and motives, it becomes clear that Eventide Lodge is not a genteel country inn but a place of ghastly cruelties and humiliations. A place where the logic of murder is . . .almost comforting . At once affectionate homage and audacious satire, The Dying of the Light will delight any aficionado of Patricia Highsmith, Peter Dickinson, or Ruth Rendell.