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Carregando... Fear and Miss Betony (1941)de Dorothy Bowers
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. My fourth Dorothy Bowers, as recommended by the Shedunnit podcast. I wasn't as much of a fan of this one as other readers. I found it just a bit confusing (may be less so on a re-read), though the clues are all there and I did enjoy the character of Miss Betony, an older woman who had worked as a governess in her youth, and who, faced with being begrudgingly accepted into a snobbish retirement community, instead takes up an offer to help an old pupil who's struggling school is dealing with a potential poisoner. The final Inspector Pardoe mystery, Pardoe is really a cypher in these books, which are carried by their other characters. ( ) Miss Betony is a spinster in her sixties, with no family and no real friends. She had worked as a governess and hadn't managed to put much money aside for her old age. When an ex-student asks for help and offers her a job, Miss Betony accepts. The action takes place in a school cum nursing home in a small seaside town, and involves poisoning, the occult, and a story from the past. It doesn't hang together very well. Miss Betony, however, is an engaging character, and gratifyingly competent. 'Fear and Miss Betony' is the last book (of four)which features Inspector Dan Pardoe. Strangely,however,he does not appear until late in the book. The main charicter is the elderly spinster named in the title,Miss Grace Betony. She is urgently requested by the owner of a girl's boarding school to help her sort out a series of increasingly troublesome events taking place at the school.The problems are compounded by the fact that the building also contains the remaining two very elderly patients left over from when it was a nursing home. Poison and black magic also enter the story with unfortunate results. Not quite so compelling as some of the other novels in this series,as it takes rather a long time to get going. When it does however,it makes an excellent story.Rather easy to spot the culprit though. . sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Former governess Emma Betony is living in quiet and boring retirement when two unexpected letters arrive. The first is a lonely hearts magazine, with an entry ("Lonely Batchelor, age 49, good health, comfortable income, seeks friendship of unattached lady with view to matrimony") highlighted by the anonymous sender. The second is an appeal for help from a former student. Grace Aram is running Makeways, a struggling boarding school for girls, newly relocated to a site of former nursing home in Dorset. Grace isn't interested in Miss Betony's teaching skills-she wants a trusted friend to help identify the culprit behind a series of troubling events. Two nursing patients have remained at Makeways and one appears to be the victim of a poisoner. It is not clear who could be responsible for the ongoing trickle of arsenic found in Miss Thurloe's drinks- the new abrasive doctor, the pragmatic nurse, the nervous teaching staff or the high-strung students. During her investigations, Miss Betony uncovers an overwhelming sense of fear on the part of Makeways' inhabitants, and clues that lead to the Great Ambrosio, a charismatic fortune-teller, who seems to have an undue influence on various teachers, students - and Miss Thurloe. First published in 1941, Fear and Miss Betony marks the final appearance of Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe-but it is Miss Betony herself who fights through fear and solves the case. Contemporary critics proclaimed the book an instant classic, with an ingenious plot. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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