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Cargando... The Bee's Kisspor Barbara Cleverly
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) MerrylT | May 18, 2023 |  Although this is #5 in the Detective Joe Sandilands series, it is the first of the series that I have read. Writing about it now reminds me that I wanted to start at the beginning of the series but haven’t yet done so. Britain, 1926 (I love these books set between the two World Wars). A society matron is murdered and the investigation uncovers—you guessed it—secrets. The characters are deftly developed, the plot ingenious, and the reveal stunning. It made me able to calm my OCD regret that I hadn’t started at the beginning of the series. 4½ stars (  ) ParadisePorch | Aug 23, 2016 | Historical interesting, post WW1, almost on the verge of the great depression, London at the heart of national strikes and civil unrest. Well worth the read. (  ) writerlibrarian | Sep 13, 2013 | romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 | Set between the wars, Cleverly has fun playing with the social and sexual mores of the period. ( ) LARA335 | Apr 5, 2013 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: 1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from India, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet, there is a darkness behind all that postwar gaiety. A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But the corpse is that of a much-respected member of the British establishment, Dame Beatrice Joliffe, one of the founders of the Wrens, and so Scotland Yard send Joe to conduct a swift enquiry. Her companion, an ex-chorus girl, falls from Waterloo Bridge at twilight. Two of the Dame's clique of eager young Wrens commit suicide. All these deaths make Joe suspect that Beatrice has been killed by someone close to her but suddenly he finds that the case is closed and he is asked by his superiors to surrender his files. Against the background of the looming General Strike, and pressure from unseen governmental presences he struggles on, picking his way through the political panic and rebelling against authority, through to a shattering solution to the killings. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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