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In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a former detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of numbers the bird spews out-a top secret SS code? A Swiss bank account? Or do they hold a far more sinister significance? Though the solution to this case may be beyond the reach of the once-famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is revealed in a wrenching resolution.… (meer)
The Final Solution is een novelle die speelt in een klein dorpje in Engeland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In dat dorp wordt een moord gepleegd. De politie roept de hulp in van een negenentachtigjarige detective, die zich in het dorpje heeft teruggetrokken om zich te wijden aan zijn hobby: bijen houden. In dat dorpje woont ook een Duits vluchtelingetje, dat met zijn papegaai bij de plaatselijke dominee woont. De papegaai spreekt, enkel in de vorm van een onafgebroken stroom nummers.
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The distinction's always fine between detection and invention. - Mary Jo Salter
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To the memory of Amanda Davis, first reader of these pages
Eerste woorden
A boy with a parrot on his shoulder was walking along the railway tracks.
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His gait was dreamy and he swung a daisy as he went. With each step the boy dragged his toes in the rail bed, as if measuring out his journey with careful ruled marks of his shoetops in the gravel. It was midsummer, and there was something about the black hair and pale face of the boy against the green unfurling flag of the downs beyond, the rolling white eye of the daisy, the knobby knees in their short pants, the self-important air of the handsome gray parrot with its savage red tail feather, that charmed the old man as he watched them go by. Charmed him, or aroused his sense – a faculty at one time renowned throughout Europe – of promising anomaly.
Laatste woorden
Then the parrot, startled perhaps by the clamour of the passing train, flew up into the rafters of the station roof, where, in flawless mockery of the voice of a woman whom non of them would ever meet or see again, it began, very sweetly, to sing.
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a former detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of numbers the bird spews out-a top secret SS code? A Swiss bank account? Or do they hold a far more sinister significance? Though the solution to this case may be beyond the reach of the once-famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is revealed in a wrenching resolution.
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