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Review Date: 7/10/2006
Excellent Napoleon Bonaparte Roving Star Police Inspector Australian Outback
Review Date: 7/15/2006
Henry & Emmy Tibbett Chief Superintendent Scotland Yard Various Locations
Review Date: 7/29/2006
rare Margaret Duffy
Review Date: 7/10/2006
This book is on almost every mystery critics top 50 list
Review Date: 8/7/2006
Outstanding Henri Bencolin Chief Of Police Paris
Staged in a castle area near Koblinz on The Rhine just after WWI in a thundering storm, secret passages inside secret passages, mud, elegance, plot twists as devious as the secret chambers, Just one of the best Carr had to offer.
Staged in a castle area near Koblinz on The Rhine just after WWI in a thundering storm, secret passages inside secret passages, mud, elegance, plot twists as devious as the secret chambers, Just one of the best Carr had to offer.
Review Date: 1/8/2010
Helpful Score: 1
The book is a richly researched, colorful historical physical and moral description of late 1890's Paris revolving around an exact model of London's Jack The Ripper mystery case even down to the the well known legal outcome with enough Personalities Of The Times peppered throughout to draw in even more paragraphs on well researched history.
Interwoven in the often analyzed and researched real mystery is the Author's theme of the lack equality between the sexes in all things.
Three women of various diverse social backgrounds team to solve (or not) the mystery case of a Paris (maybe London too) Jack The Ripper; or,indeed is it a case of an Undefined International Cabal using Jack conceptual clones as urban terrorists? Since the author uses the: tell me what you are going to tell me, tell me, and tell me again writing style appropriate for presentations or research papers, three people combine to tell the same tale nine times.
The book adheres to the Jack The Ripper model to the degree there is no real or imagined outcome even for the fictional characters. Other Authors of this style have some kind of either happy, not so happy, or something the reader can relate to as "An Event or Events" at the end of the book allowing the reader some degree of temporary at least satisfaction at having read the book.
An extensive study guide is included at the end of the book so it must be a repetitious research paper because it surely is not a mystery.
Interwoven in the often analyzed and researched real mystery is the Author's theme of the lack equality between the sexes in all things.
Three women of various diverse social backgrounds team to solve (or not) the mystery case of a Paris (maybe London too) Jack The Ripper; or,indeed is it a case of an Undefined International Cabal using Jack conceptual clones as urban terrorists? Since the author uses the: tell me what you are going to tell me, tell me, and tell me again writing style appropriate for presentations or research papers, three people combine to tell the same tale nine times.
The book adheres to the Jack The Ripper model to the degree there is no real or imagined outcome even for the fictional characters. Other Authors of this style have some kind of either happy, not so happy, or something the reader can relate to as "An Event or Events" at the end of the book allowing the reader some degree of temporary at least satisfaction at having read the book.
An extensive study guide is included at the end of the book so it must be a repetitious research paper because it surely is not a mystery.
Review Date: 7/15/2006
Luke Thanet Police Detective Thames Valley
Review Date: 7/14/2006
classic english mystery Albert Campion Private Investigator England 1920-46
Review Date: 7/15/2006
Henry & Emmy Tibbett Chief Superintendent Scotland Yard & Wife Various Locations
Review Date: 7/27/2006
One of Michael Gilberts best offerings
Review Date: 7/10/2006
Excellent Hamish Macbeth Local Constable Northern Highlands Scotland -TV Series
Review Date: 4/16/2007
This book is a classic and on most "Must Read" lists for mystery aficionados. It evn lives up to its billing.
Review Date: 7/24/2006
Sir Hugh Corbett Clerk & Spy 13Th Century England
Review Date: 7/23/2006
Minette Walters is one of the best all time mystery writers
Review Date: 7/26/2006
Gold Dagger award winner
Review Date: 7/10/2006
Excellent Lord Meren Spy Master & Detective Ancient Egypt
Review Date: 7/10/2006
Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin Detectives New York City 1920-30's
Review Date: 7/29/2006
This book is on practically every "Must Reads" for mysteries and lives up to its billings
Review Date: 7/15/2006
Inspector Wexford Chief Inspector England
Review Date: 7/30/2006
winner of several awards, England during wwII, excellent
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