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Cargando... The Blue Diamond (1925 original; edición 2016)por Annie Haynes (Autor)
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Jim Gregory, under-gardener at Hargreave Manor, finds something unexpected when climbing Lover's Oak but won't say what. Instead he's all ears regarding the legendary 'Luck of the Hargreaves' diamonds, destined for the future bride of Sir Arthur, the new squire.Sir Arthur himself then discovers a beautiful stranger, lost in the woods near the manor. She cannot recall a thing--not even her name. She is given shelter and Mary Marston, a private nurse, recognizes her--and abruptly goes missing. Nurse Marston must still be in the house, it is initially agreed--but if so, where?Who got rid of Nurse Marston? To whom does the tobacco pouch with the floral design belong? And why was a blood-stained cuff found in the woods? These mysteries, and more, Superintendent Stokes is determined to solve. The Blue Diamond (1925) is a classic of early golden crime fiction. This new edition, the first in over eighty years, features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I have no doubt that Haynes looked to Wilkie Collins when she wrote The Blue Diamond, and I thought she did rather well with that, except I am not a fan Collins' writing whih I remember as equally dramatically overblown (especially in the romance department).
As with some of Haynes' better mysteries, the amosphere was wonderfully Victorian. I know Haynes wrote these mysteries in the 1920s, but there is nothing modern about them. I have a hunch that she was not one to shake off her Victorian upbringing and that she probably appealed to quite a wide readership in her lifetime that was equally raised on Victorian mores and felt uncomfortable with the Bright Young Things and their modern mysteries.
And kudos to Haynes for doing that. I may not love her mysteries as much as the Golden Age ones that follower her work but I do enjoy reading what the mystery genre had to offer in the time between Holmes and Poirot, and I think I will always have a soft spot for Haynes for that reason.
I have one more of her books to read, but I'm saving that one for when I next need a predictable story with great atmosphere to distract me. ( )