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Cargando... The Mayor's Wife (1907)por Anna Katharine Green
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Enjoyed the book. Kept my interest from start to finish. ( ) Anna Katherine Green was an American novelist at the turn of the 20th century and is considered by many to be the mother of the detective novel. I first read a short story of hers last year, featuring Violet Strange, and immediately wanted to read more. I couldn't find a collection of her Strange stories, but I did find a beautiful, first edition copy of this book for 15 bucks and I didn't think twice. It was worth every penny. I only dinged it 1/2 star because there was a massive clue the protagonist 'forgot' she saw early in the book that I didn't forget reading about. Of course this clue was the thing that the mystery's couple in peril needed to secure their HEA (although it didn't matter to the mystery itself). Miss Saunders is working for an employment agency of some sort - it's never explained, although it's obviously not your average job placement firm - when she is hired by the Mayor to be a companion to his wife, with the secondary task of discovering what event happened two weeks previously that substantially altered the Mayor's wife's personality. Not only is the book very well written, but it has a little bit of everything fun and suspenseful in a vintage mystery: tales of hauntings, cryptic codes, unexplainable occurrences, dodgy butlers, and crazy old ladies staring out of attic windows. The pacing is quick and even; I had a really hard time putting it down last night and it was the first thing I picked up this morning (thank goodness for school holidays!). I did not see the ending coming, although it wasn't altogether shocking. I'll definitely be looking out for more of Green's work! Miss Saunders is offered the position of companion to Mrs Olympia Packard, the mayor's wife as he will be travelling for the next few weeks. It seems that someone or something has disturbed the mind of Mrs Packard and it is hoped Miss Saunders will determine the cause. An entertaining mystery Originally published in 1907 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety. I needed a position, needed it badly, while the others- But her eyes are on our faces, she is scanning us all with that close and calculating gaze which lets nothing escape. She has passed me by-my heart goes down, down-when suddenly her look returns and she singles me out. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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