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Bezig met laden... The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940)door John Dickson Carr
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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. Starts with a great opening --a young man tells skeptical friends about a haunted house in which an old butler allegedly killed himself by swigging from a chandelier till it fell and killed him --this is followed by the announcement that an expatriate recently returned to Britain (and fascinated by ghosts) has bought the house. He has a party of guests in the house, and one guest is shot in the presence of his wife, who says that a pistol hanging on the wall came off the wall, hung in the air, and shot him. Carr is the master of the impossible crime genre, but it’s not his clever twists that make him compelling but the deftness and atmosphere in his work. He can be genuinely eerie and funny at the same time, I would very much have liked to have known him. The Man Who Could Not Shudder is the story about an ancient haunted house, a ghost party and the murder of one of the guests. I can’t say more without giving anything way, other than if you like haunted houses and creepy atmosphere, revelations during storms, casts of characters all with something to hid, then you will love this book. Read it as soon as you can. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's stylish, baffling mystery novel The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen unless the butler leapt and swung on it. Was he mad? Suicidal? Or was he being pursued by something from beyond the grave? Seventeen years later, Longwood is purchased by Martin Clarke, a rakish young man with a taste for the supernatural. He invites his friends for a paranormal housewarming, but it is not long before the festivities turn gruesome. Chairs fly, guns fire on their own, and a mysterious fire threatens to engulf the whole mansion in flames. Clarke and his guests came for a ghost huntâ??but could it be that the ghost is hunting them? The Man Who Could Not Shudder is the 12th book in the Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. The Man Who Could Not Shudder is the 12th book in the Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Like: Vast and beaming, wearing a box-pleated cape as big as a tent, (Dr. Gideon Fell) sat in the center of the gaudy swing with his hands folded over his crutch stick. His shovel hat almost touched the canopy overhead. His eyeglasses were set precariously on a pink nose; the black ribbon of these glasses blew wide with each vast puff of breath which rumbled up from under his three chins.
Or: As Huckleberry Finn once put it, it even smelt late. (But I guess that's really a compliment to Mark Twain's writing.)
Or: The tide was out. ... A vast expanse of gray pitted mud, looking rather like the end of the world as imagined by Mr. H.G. Wells, took up the beach and apparently a good deal of the ocean as well. Even the pier, a white centipede with black legs, hardly reached to the end of it. ( )