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Bezig met laden... Evidence of Things Seen (1943)door Elizabeth Daly
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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. Henry and Clara Gamadge have taken a cottage in the country area of the Berkshires for summer. Henry spends a good part of his time in the city on war work, so Clara is on her own. A woman wearing an old sunbonnet starts appearing on the property. Rumour is she is Eve Hickson, who died just a year ago. Eva is the sister of Alvira, and further rumours are that Alvira may have poisoned her. When Alvira is injured in an accident in front of the cottage, and has to spend the night, she is killed and the suspect killer is the figure in the sunbonnet. How can a ghost be the killer? If it isn’t the ghost, then who is it and what is the reason? Gamadge manages time off to spend time at the cottage investigating. There is a good number of possible suspects to sift through. One by one, Gamadge weeds them out. This entry in the Henry Gamadge series was interesting in that his wife Clara was the main character for the first section while Henry is away doing some secret war work. Despite the fact that I figured out the murderer fairly quickly, I couldn't figure out the motive and Daly did a good job of making me doubt my conclusion with several red herrings. Gamadge's wife at a vacation cottage sees what appears to be the ghost of a woman who died (possibly poisoned) earlier. Then a woman suspected of killing the first one does during what appears to be an appearance of the ghost --but Mrs. Gamadge insists she saw the whole thing and the "ghost" did not touch the victim. Local authorities are suspicious, but Gamadge trusts her and sets out to find ot who the "ghost" really was and how the murder happened. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From Agatha Christie's favorite American author--an amateur sleuth rescues his wife when her vacation home includes a ghost and murder. In the sticky summer of 1943, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet who died just one year ago in the cottage Clara is now renting, merely adds to the local color. It's all nothing more than a spooky game, until the woman's sister is strangled while Clara dozes in a chair by her bed. The only clue: Clara's panicked memory of a woman in a sunbonnet standing at the door. Happily, Henry Gamadge arrives in time to calm his wife and solve the mystery (though not without some stellar help from Clara!). "Ingenious . . . most readers will be completely fooled." --New York Times Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This entry in the Henry Gamadge series was interesting in that his wife Clara was the main character for the first section while Henry is away doing some secret war work. Despite the fact that I figured out the murderer fairly quickly, I couldn't figure out the motive and Daly did a good job of making me doubt my conclusion with several red herrings. ( )