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![]() Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() In the 1930s and 1940s John Dickson Carr was a deservedly popular author of contemporary "locked room" mysteries who also wrote one historical swashbuckler. The Bride of Newgate, published in 1950, combines the two genres. It's a romp with a social conscience. The bride of the title is a woman of breathtaking independence and backbone for a novel written in the 1950s. Despising the very thought of being saddled with a husband, she concocts a scheme to marry a convict sentenced to be hanged for murder and appears in his cell with her proposal an hour before he is to swing. Of course, this being a swashbuckling puzzle-style murder mystery, all does not go according to plan. The Bride of Newgate is one of the earliest novels in the historical mystery genre. Agatha Christie's Death Comes as the End, set in ancient Egypt and published in 1944, preceded it. More at www.HistoricalNovels.info. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era England To inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony, she chooses a spouse not long for this world--a convicted murderer with just a few hours left until his date with the hangman. But clever, cold-hearted Caroline does not yet realize it is her neck around which the noose is tightening and that she risks facing a life sentence far grimmer than one at Newgate jail. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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