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Laddar... The Three Taps (1927)av Ronald A. Knox
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Just okay. This has all the elements that should make a good golden age murder mystery: isolated country inn, witty repartee, locked door murder (or was it suicide?), eccentric characters. Unfortunately it seemed that most of the book was taken up with the two detectives discussing theories of the crime based on what little evidence they had. Over and over and over again. ( ) The first of Msgr. Knox's handful of detective stories is also probably the best. Insurance investigator Miles Bredon is sent to look into the death by gas of the rich Mr. Mottram. As there will be a huge payout if it was not suicide, Bredon initially supports this hypothesis. He finds himself in friendly rivalry with the policeman Leyland, who's trying to prove it was murder. The evidence seems finely balanced on both sides, and turns on the fact that the door was locked but the gas had been turned off - oddly, without any fingerprints being left. The solution Bredon eventually arrives at is satisfying and genuinely surprising inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i serienMiles Bredon (book 1)
In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate - and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured. The culprit is the three gas taps in Mr Mottram's room, and Miles hopes to prove that his death is suicide. Miles' old wartime colleague, Police Inspector Leyland, is convinced it's murder. And the conclusion is as ingenious as it is surprising. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.91Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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