Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer. With these opening words, Before the Fact us...Loe edasi...
Berkely adroitly plays on readers expectations of genre conventions with a witty and tricky plot and a genuinely shocking conclusion. The British Library Crime Classics series does golden age fans a great service with this reissue....Loe edasi...
( Anthony Berkeleys) tale of petty rivalries, affairs, and revenge plots is so deliciously entertaining. ( Murder in the Basement is) a pioneering example of the whowasdunin that, like that corpse in the basement, richly deserve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2022, Other book format, Kirjastus: Poisoned Pen Press, ISBN-13: 9781728261263)
When his investigation into the discovery of a corpse in the basement of a new home goes cold, Chief Inspector Moresby follows a tenuous lead to an amateur criminologist in a school south of London whose satirical novel about his colleagues could rev...Loe edasi...
Tightly paced and cleverly defying the conventions of the classic detective story, this 1933 novel remains a milestone of the inverted mystery subgenre....Loe edasi...
