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Carregando... From London Far (1946)de Michael Innes
![]() Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. ![]() ![]() Erudite and bizarre mystery about art theft. Richard Meredith, a middle-aged scholar of Juvenal and literary criticism, is catapulted into this adventure by mischance - don't worry if the first chapter puts you off as the story really starts with the second one; the first one makes more sense later on. Although Inspector Appleby isn't in this book, it did remind me of a few of his adventures. When his absentminded murmur in a tobacconists is misheard as a password, Richard Meredith, editor of Martial and Juvenal, finds himself plunged into a struggle against an international gang of art thieves who have been taking advantage of the chaotic conditions during and after WWII. He finds an ally in a former student who was kidnapped by the gang when she got too curious about an explosion on an archaeological dig. This is one of Innes's standalone adventures inspired by John Buchan but this being Innes with plenty of whimsical not to say outright lunatic touches. The Misses Macleod are wonderfully memorable and so is Neff in his own horrible way. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
As Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian. From then on he is trapped in a maze of the illicit art trade, in the company of the redoubtable Jane Halliwell. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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