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Indlæser... After the Armistice Ball (Dandy Gilver Murder Mystery 1) (udgave 2006)af Catriona McPherson (Forfatter)
Work InformationAfter the Armistice Ball af Catriona McPherson
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Quirky, and a little bit dark. It's been long enough now since I read it that I'm very fuzzy on most of the details, but I enjoyed it enough to immediately pick up book #2. Dandy is a little odd at the start, and her partnership with a male character that's not her husband is innocent yet intriguing and challenging to my sense of what one could get away with during the time (the interval between WW1 and WW2). Maybe 2.5? I did so want to like this book. Setting was perfect. Woman detective perfect concept. In execution, if I had to hear Dandy described as stupid by herself or other characters I was going to scream. Indeed, her bumbling was quite annoying. Plot/murder was too convoluted for words. Writing was very nice, with shots of humor. Nasty trick indeed to leave a central mystery unresolved. Good portrait of upper classes between the wars. Fairly condescending portraits of both men and women in general. Still, being a glutton for punishment, I will try another. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:A classic murder-mystery set among the struggling upper classes of 1920s Perthshire as, in the aftermath of the First World War, their comfortable world begins to crumble. Dandy Gilver, her husband back from the War, her children off at school and her uniform growing musty in the attic, is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. Before long, though, the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden, unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway. Society and the law seem ready to call it an accident but Dandy, along with Cara Duffy's fiance Alec, is sure that there is more going on than meets the eye. What is being hidden by members of the Duffy family: the watchful Lena, the cold and distant Clemence and old Gregory Duffy with his air of quiet sadness, not to mention Cara herself whose secret always seems just tantalizingly out of view? Dandy must learn to trust her instincts and swallow most of her scruples if he is to uncover the truth and earn the right to call herself a sleuth. No library descriptions found. |
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