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Carregando... There Was an Old Woman (1943)de Ellery Queen
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ellery was there when the first murder happened. He saw it, yet he didn't believe it. He and Inspector Queen were both there when the second murder was done. Both by the same family member. Insane! But then half of this family seems insane and the other half normal. The scary part is the insane side seems to be killing off the sane side. The Potts name is synonymous with shoes. "Potts shoes are America's shoes. $3.99 everywhere" Not just their tag line, but also in neon above the bronze statue of one on the front lawn of the family's ornate family mansion. The Old Lady is obsessed over this and so is one of her offspring. Ellery applies his brain power and solves this mystery, but it takes 3 go rounds to get all the loose ends. Just when he thinks he has all figured out, another thread needs to be untangled. A very enjoyable read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Once upon an evil time, there was a wicked old woman with a mammoth shoe company worth many millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children. Then one day death came visiting the vast Potts mansion--and began claiming its inhabitants one by one. It was then that Ellery Queen was invited to sup on this nightmare brew of diabolical murder and baffling mystery--in a case that made the most horrific crimes in his entire career seem like fairy tales. As he endeavors to solve the case, he tries to make sense of this family that defies rationality. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Anyway, while this isn't great literature, and a bit sketchy in places, and hideously out of date regarding one's views of women, I'd likely read more Ellery Queen as escapist literature, whereas, I would have to be paid to read any more Mickey Spillane, a more-or-less contemporary crime author.
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