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Bezig met laden... Fallen into the Pit (1951)door Ellis Peters
British Mystery (367) 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. DNF at 30%. I've read enough to know I don't want to keep reading, at least not now. Maybe I'll come back to it. I picked this up for a reading challenge category (woman author with male pseudonym). I really liked Pargeter's Wales quartet, and this mid-century mystery series about a village policeman and his family sounded right up my alley. But the level of detail is stupefying, I have to stop an unravel sentences to get their meaning on a regular basis, and the unpleasant characters are really unpleasant. As in, I recoil from the words. Maybe my tolerance for reading racist and anti-Semitic language is just at a low. It fits the character, but it hits like a sledgehammer. I would get through that if the rest of it were easier to read, but it's not. http://tinyurl.com/y7q7tml3 I will definitely not be picking up the Brother Cadfael mystery series. Ms. Peters, ie Ms. Pargeter, crafts unbelievable characters, over-explains, and over-describes. However, her novels do all seem very British, so I guess she has that going for her. I suppose I'm more of a fan of mystery writers like Chandler or novel writers like Steinbeck. They keep it spare by describing what's necessary, and they intensify the mystery as a result. Peters isn't necessarily florid in her writing, but she tells you literally everything her main characters are thinking and feeling. We don't need all that! It makes the reading sloggy (I almost wrote soggy, but that too). Most particularly, the son of the cop (already forgotten his name) is an unimaginably precocious pre-teen (as is his young girl friend) who happens to be at all the right places at all the right times and yet still can't get his mum and dad to believe what he's seen. It isn't even really that he's precocious, it's that he gnaws on the plot line until it's threadbare and see-through. It's actually rather exhausting for the reader. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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When an obnoxious Nazi landworker is murdered in the small village of Comerford, Sergeant George Felse faces one of the toughest investigations of his career It is 1952, and the shadow of World War II still lies over the green fields of the small village of Comerford on the Welsh borders. When ex-prisoner of war Helmut Schauffler is murdered, local policeman Sergeant George Felse has his work cut out: Schauffler was Nazi to the core and the majority of the villagers had good reason to despise him. Sergeant Felse's fourteen-year-old son, Dominic-who found Schauffler's body in a shallow brook-is fascinated by the case. Much to his father's disapproval, he resolves to find the murderer-a decision that places his own life in great danger. . . . Fallen Into the Pit is the 1st book in the Felse Investigations, 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)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The viewpoint is omniscient, freely shifting between characters and their thoughts. I generally find that jarring (either being confused by lack of clarity or annoyed by the author obviously withholding knowledge), but in this case the read was very smooth.
Events appeared a touch contrived, with Dominic happening upon clue after clue, but that didn't dectract from my enjoyment. I did have a pretty good idea of the murder's identity (and a final twist) well in advance of the denoument, but I don't think the clues were belaboured.
If you like well-plotted gentle mysteries, this is well worth reading.