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Laddar... Lost Man's Lane: A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth (1898)av Anna Katharine Green
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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. Spoiler warning: Don't read reviews or murder mysteries if you don't want to know the ending. I liked this mystery, and I'm glad to have discovered AK Green as a true predecessor of Agatha Christie. Amelia Butterworth (loved that name before I even started reading) is a not always likable, sometimes snobbish, headstrong and clever woman, and her female and amateurish intuition makes a great foil to the methodical approach of Inspector Gryce. Didn't like the ending, though. The perpetrator wasn't hard to guess in the first place - if everyone is described as somewhat flawed and unlikable and only one person is consistently pictured as smart, kind and misunderstood, that's probably the one. Even worse was the explanation/motivation for the crime, though. Even if sudden insanity is believably rooted in the dark recesses of a character, if it's never foreshadowed and comes out of the blue only at the very end of the plot, it will always appear as a deus ex machina. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ever since my fortunate--or shall I say unfortunate?--connection with that famous case of murder in Gramercy Park, I have had it intimated to me by many of my friends--and by some who were not my friends--that no woman who had met with such success as myself in detective work would ever be satisfied with a single display of her powers, and that sooner or later I would find myself again at work upon some other case of striking peculiarities. As vanity has never been my foible, and as, moreover, I never have forsaken and never am likely to forsake the plain path marked out for my sex, at any other call than that of duty, I invariably responded to these insinuations by an affable but incredulous smile, striving to excuse the presumption of my friends by remembering their ignorance of my nature and the very excellent reasons I had for my one notable interference in the police affairs of New York City. Besides, though I appeared to be resting quietly, if not in entire contentment, on my laurels, I was not so utterly removed from the old atmosphere of crime and its detection as the world in general considered me to be. Mr. Gryce still visited me; not on business, of course, but as a friend, for whom I had some regard; and naturally our conversation was not always confined to the weather or even to city politics, provocative as the latter subject is of wholesome controversy. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.4Literature English (North America) American fiction Later 19th Century 1861-1900Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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An enjoyable mystery.
Originally written in 1898. ( )