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Cargando... The Monteverdi Manuscriptpor Joseph Allen
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The action revolves around the death of a famous musician, who hits the pavement outside Carnegie Hall from the window of his apartment seven stories up. He has recorded keyboard versions of a lost opera by Claudio Monteverdi, the man who "invented" opera. Set in New York, London and Venice, action includes a kidnapping, drug use, prostitution, LGBT characters, one character who comes back from the dead, and three classic New York detective characters led by Hugo Miller. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The narration of the mystery was very fluent and certainly kept me turning the pages. However, we are specifically told in the first few pages that the events occurred in 1998, but the book is full of anachronisms to the point that spotting them became more enjoyable than the actual
story. People were using iPods and smart phones, had access to wifi on a transatlantic flight, using Gmail, looking things up on Wikipedia, and looking a suspect up on Twitter and Facebook, none of which existed in 1998.
I don't think I will continue with the series despite the entertaining story since the author cannot do basic research. (