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Cargando... Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog (2000)por Boris Akunin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Pelagia is Boris Akunin's female counterpart to Erast Fandorin, his wonderful, 19th century detective. Pelagia is a nun, a seemingly self-effacing, plain, unobtrusive young woman who is sent to unravel the goings-on at the Bishop's aunt's estate where her prize white bulldogs are being killed off. It is a completely different milieu than in the Fandorin books -- it is not the urbane, cosmopolitan world of St. Petersburg or international settings, it is the backwaters of Russia -- where grand estates exist next to schismatic enclaves and superstitious peasant villages. The book is enjoyable, and as the first in a series, Pelagia an interesting personality, though overall I preferred the first Fandorin story more. ( ) I liked this but I wouldn't place it among my favorite mysteries. It's scant on evidence and long on speculation, which is really the opposite of what I prefer. Still, there are some very good character studies in it. I'll probably read the next one, though, because the narrator's voice bothered me a lot after a while. didn't really enjoy this very much, although I was expecting to. I'm not terribly good at absorbing character names (unless the author does a "George R. Martin" and somehow encapsulates the essence of the character in a few well-chosen sentences, so that might have been what made it difficult at first. But I think it was also that my sense of humour just doesn't respond to the almost snarky, self-satisfied clever tone used. Not a bad book, just not one that I responded to in a positive way. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In the dying days of the Nineteenth Century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner. Meanwhile, in the nearby country estate of Drozdovka, one of the prized white Bulldogs - prized because of its one brown ear, and its propensity to drool - belonging to the cantankerous lady of the house has been poisoned. The old widow has taken to her bed, sick with fear that her two remaining dogs may face a similar fate, and the many potential beneficiaries of her will wait fretfully to see whether or not she will recover. Sister Pelagia: bespectacled, freckled, woefully clumsy and astonishingly resourceful is summoned by the Bishop of Zavolzhsk to investigate the bulldog's death. But her investigation soon takes a far more sinister turn when two headless bodies are pulled out of the river on the edge of the estate. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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