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Bezig met laden... The Marx Sisters (1994)door Barry Maitland
British Mystery (383) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Thoroughly enjoyable mystery. The characters, both detectives and suspects, were interesting and the plot was not too convoluted and not too easy. I began to suspect the murderer but never the final reasons. The ending did have that "Don't Go Downstairs" plot twist but still was well done. Here is a hint, when given an offstage drink by a potential murderer, don't drink it. There is a strong academic and booklover’s flavor to this detective story plot which seems more obviously centred on the dynamic of the young, driven-but-insecure Inspector Kathy Kolla and the brilliant-but-perhaps-unfulfilled Chief Inspector Brock. The sharply drawn portraits of unhappy, questing academics raises the question whether Maitland might know whereof he speaks. There is great passion in the characters, and some genuine though by no means comfortable emotion. In fact, almost every character has flaws, and none are portrayed at all sympathetically. The setting of Jerusalem Lane, a ramshackle vestige of a London village, being torn down for a modern development might in a way be a metaphor, but one that is not overplayed, which allows the reader to make up his own mind about what is being lost and what gained. The introduction of Poincare’s creativity model as a theme for ultimately resolving the case is neat, but coming as late as it does in the book makes it seem like an afterthought. All in all an excellent work, with depth and richness of characters that bodes well for other stories. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Brock and Kolla (1) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch (13632) PrijzenErelijsten
Meridith Winterbottom, een achterkleindochter van Karl Marx, is dood teruggevonden. Later wordt ook Marx zus vermoord. Inspecteur Brock en detective Kathy verdiepen zich in de zaak. Ze vinden niet-gepubliceerde brieven van Karl Marx tot Friedrich Engels, een mogelijk vierde volume van Das Kapital en een eindeloze lijst van verdachten. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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