Mistero nel West End. Un giallo londinese

(read some time back -- just now in catch up mode) full post is here http://www.crimesegments.com/2023/11/... 3.7 rounded up ... I've had such great fun with this short mystery series. Bencolin and Marle are in London to see a play, and there they are staying with one of Bencolin's old friends, Sir Jo Leggi tutto

Tohle je návrat klasického Carra. Už jen název slibuje zmizelou šibenici, a to nebude jediná podivnost v knize. Máme tu pomstu ze záhrobí, mumii, tajemného muže, co se neviditelně dostává do bytů a nechává po sobě maketu šibenice, auto řízené mrtvým mužem, oběšence v neexistující ulici a spoustu dal Leggi tutto

This is not the usual Carr locked-room mystery. I struggled through it. I find Carr a bit hard to follow, as his writing tends to follow the random, unrelated thoughts of the narrator and focus is lost. What is he talking about, anyway? It is unclear what relationship Jeff Marle, the narrator, has w Leggi tutto

Not a bad book but I found it a little disappointing.

This is a story written by a cocky 24-year-old who thinks he's writing literary masterpieces, and it certainly reads like it. So much nonsense that outshines the mystery, which is so overwrought and unbelievable that perhaps that's why it was smothered in a thick fog of BS.

A solid, rewarding Murder Mystery, with a few disappointing elements to the manifold trickery festooning the main question: Who killed Nezam El Moulk that weird night in London? Actually, that is NOT the question. El Moulk "feels" dead, there is a certain aura of finality to his disappearance - but, Leggi tutto