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Carregando... Halfway House (1936)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. My favorite moment in this story occurs early on --a man leading a double life has been murdered; his snobbish wealthy wife is being very contemptuous of what she assumes to be his lowlife mistress in his the life --when it turns out that he had married the "lowlife" woman first, so the snob is in fact the one who has no rightful claim to be his wife. Queen sys early on that the question is, which of the two men did the murderer think he/she was killing, but if I recall right, the answer is "both" Cleverly crafted murder mystery first published in 1936 by Frederic Dannay and Manfred B, Lee, under the pen name Ellery Queen. Queen, of course, is the detective solving the mystery of a body found in a house where it’s obvious no one lived. Half way between NYC and Philadelphia Pennsylvania, the house was a place for the murder victim, who led a double life, to switch identities. I had an inkling of who the murderer was this time, but based only on one fact, and no clues. These guys were good. Read this if: you love a classic murder mystery; or you want a small taste of NYC society in the 1930s. 3½ stars sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The victim had lived two lives, but a single knife thrust ended both of them. The trail of suspicion led into the guilt-edged world of the beautiful people-and climaxed in a vicious courtroom battle that ended with a shattering verdict. It seemed that for the first time Ellery had met his match-until the sleuth blended his usual impeccable logic with a most unusual fling ... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The Ellery Queen mysteries play fair with readers. There is a characteristic pause in the story when all of the clues have been presented and it's possible for readers to piece them together to reach the same conclusion as Ellery. In this book, that point came when there were still two discs/segments left in the audio version. With nearly an hour left in the audio version, all of the characters knew the murderer's identity. However, Ellery continued to refer to the murderer as “the criminal” for quite some time yet. To say this was irritating would be an understatement. Ellery Queen's mysteries make a refreshing change from heavier reads, but they have enough idiosyncrasies to deter me from binge reading the series. ( )