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Per la colta e raffinata Isabelle Dalhousie, fondatrice del Club dei filosofi dilettanti di Edimburgo, una serata all'opera è sempre un momento di riposo e di serenità. Ma quando un giorno, al termine di una rappresentazione, vede un giovane precipitare giù dal loggione, intuisce che quella caduta non è affatto accidentale, come invece la polizia vorrebbe far credere. Dotata di grande sensibilità e di senso morale, Isabel da perspicace filosofa si trasforma immediatamente in investigatrice. Aiutata dalle persone a lei più care ' Cat, l'adorata nipote, Jamie, l'affascinante ex fidanzato di Cat e Grace, la fedele governante ', Isabel indaga e scopre che dietro le suggestive atmosfere e gli splendidi paesaggi urbani di Edimburgo si celano tensioni e appetiti, tanto voraci quanto immorali'
- ISBN: 8850213735
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 266
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I was just telling a friend that I rarely leave two-star reviews, but this is one of them. I probably wouldn't have read the entire book (Davina Porter's usual terrific narration notwithstanding), except for the resolution of the "mystery" presented at the outset; to avoid a spoiler, I'll leave it t Leggi tutto
This is a quick and likeable read that is mildly engaging. It is the first of the philosopher Isabel Dalhousie series set in Edinburgh. She edits a philosophy journal on applied ethics and ponders on the ethics and morality on the minutae of life. Upon seeing a man fall from a balcony at Usher Hall, Leggi tutto
To be honest, I'd have to call this series a guilty pleasure. The plotlines don't always ring true to life, although I've never been a wealthy philosopher living in Scotland, with a major crush on my niece's ex-boyfriend, a bassoon player who's at least a decade younger than me. I'm not as intellect Leggi tutto
Alexander McCall Smith is best known for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, of which I am a fan. He has another series featuring Isabel Dalhousie, a cultured and wealthy Scottish lady (and I use the term advisedly), which sounds far more like my usual preference than a genial African woman.
Sound the Post Horn! Isabel is off and running again... And Isabel is anything but a mere Sunday Sleuth. No, she’s a total self-starter, and just as curiosity can kill us cooler-brained cats, it is ALWAYS time, regardless of consequences, for her to play Holmes to us more pedestrian Watsons. You see ( Leggi tutto
I didn’t think I would like this series as I compared Isabel to Precious (from the author’s other series The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency). The contrasts were obvious. Isabel Dalhousie is a very different heroine from Precious. Where Precious was a gentle, simple soul Isabel is a complex creatu Leggi tutto
I wasn't crazy about the narrator. She's too airy to narrate a whodunit. The protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, is the editor of an ethics magazine and the asides about ethics and philosophy are as dry as they sound - the ethical quandaries she finds herself in aren't engaging. And she needs a flaw - co Leggi tutto
As with most of Alexander McCall Smiths books, the plot is only half the story. This series is about Isabelle Dalhousie, an educated middle aged woman living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She reviews magazine articles for a Philosophy of Ethics journal and is a member of the Sunday Philosophy club if and
I enjoyed The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency , so when a member of my library book club proposed this, another series by the same author, this time headed by a Scottish “Mma Precious Ramotswe,” I figured it was bound to be enjoyable. Ha! Isabel Dalhousie wins the trophy for the most unappealing prota Leggi tutto
Отдавна не бях чела толкова интелигентно написана книга. Авторът има много интересни разсъждения, описани чрез неговата героиня Изабел Далхауз. Наслаждавах се и я четях бавно, провокира много размисли в мен. Героите са пълнокръвно изградени, като всеки от тях притежава някаква своя странност, но в н Leggi tutto
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