J. J. Connington (1880–1947)
Autor de Nordenholt's Million
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: gadetection
Series
Obras de J. J. Connington
The Omnibus: The Two Tickets Puzzle, Mystery at Lynden Sands, The Case with Nine Solutions, Nemesis at Raynham Parva (1930) 3 copias
Indiciekedjan 1 copia
Before Insulin 1 copia
The Thinking Machine 1 copia
The Counsellor 1 copia
Le tre meduse 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Contribuidor — 31 copias
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
Death and Detection: The Bishop Murder Case, Death at Swaythling Court, The Season for Murder — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Connington, J. J.
- Nombre legal
- Stewart, Alfred Walter
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1880-09-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1947-07-01
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Educación
- University of Glasgow
- Ocupaciones
- chemist
part-time novelist
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 38
- También por
- 10
- Miembros
- 461
- Popularidad
- #53,308
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 85
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 1
At the large country house there’s a maze with two centers (I’m still trying to figure that one out). Twin brother, one a barrister and the other an unscrupulous business man, are murdered in the maze centers. I found that part of the plot a little tricky and weird.
The police, in the person of the Chief Constable, begin the investigation of an original and clever double murder, but the twists and turns take a while to unravel.
I enjoyed Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield as the investigator; he’s persevering and not afraid to be creative in his attempts to catch a criminal.
The ending of the book is satisfying to the reader but completely implausible. I’d recommend it to Golden Age Mystery lovers, with the caveat that there’s some nonspecific talk of vivisection. The only animal harmed in the story is a guinea pig who dies instantaneously.… (más)