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Laddar... The Problem of Cell 13 [short story] (1905)av Jacques Futrelle
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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. A sapersi calare in un’epoca – della letteratura, prima che della storia – risulta delizioso. Un tuffo nel passato, perché agli albori la letteratura gialla è così: un personaggio molto sopra le righe, geniale e arrogante (se vogliamo da questo prototipo discende direttamente Hercule Poirot) sfida il pubblico, i suoi contemporanei e assieme i lettori, con un mistero classico, qui una variante della "camera chiusa". Prima di tutto consigliato agli estimatori del giallo che vogliano farsi una cavalcata nelle origini del genere. En passant si raccomanda come cura d’urto a tutti quelli che, nutriti di sola contemporaneità, arricciano il naso di fronte a tutto ciò che esula da schemi noti e sentenziano in base a regolette desunte unicamente da quanto – a loro – noto. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875-1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring the "Thinking Machine," Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen. He worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he began their sports section; the New York Herald; the Boston Post; and the Boston American. In 1905, his Thinking Machine character first appeared in a serialized version of The Problem of Cell 13. In 1895, he married fellow writer Lily May Peel, with whom he had two children. While returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first-cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead. He perished in the Atlantic. His works include: The Chase of the Golden Plate (1906), The Simple Case of Susan (1908), The Thinking Machine on the Case (1908), The Diamond Master (1909), Elusive Isabel (1909), The High Hand (1911), My Lady's Garter (1912), Blind Man's Bluff (1914). Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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He has not the charisma of Holmes (but I wonder if that's not prejudice on our part?), and there is no Watson character in the stories I have read to date. There is a distinctly European flavour to the style of Futrelle's writing (although he was an American), and a sense that one is reading a literary exercise, along the lines of something by Georges Perec, rather than a work of art. But it is none the worse for any of that, and I'm glad I've discovered the Thinking Machine! ( )