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Cargando... No Mask for Murder (1950)por Andrew Garve
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It starts by appearing to be a standard English country-house type of mystery, with a couple of unusual features. For one thing, it's set in a leper colony. For another, one of the characters writes calypsos, and we get several samples. Soon, it becomes a case not so much of whodunit but whowitnessedit. SPOILER ALERT (although the killer is known quite early on, so there's not much to spoil) -- the only time, in my experience, when the villain is a public health officer. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Young Dr. Martin West has just arrived to take up an important medical post on a British island colony in the Tropics which is on the verge of being granted self-government, and where corruption is rife. His chief, Dr. Garland, shows him over an isolation establishment for lepers on a neighbouring island which is to be developed. Soon he is involved in a conflict of personalities and a maze of violent events. At a fiesta, when the population goes crazy with joyous abandon and fancy-dress is worn, a masked murderer kills Dr. Garlandâe(tm)s assistant. A second murder follows. Susan Anstruther, the girl Martin falls in love with, almost becomes the third victim. Then Martin goes on the warpath. For a time he finds himself with a lot of riddles and no answers, until Dr. Garlandâe(tm)s glamorous wife Celeste gives a dramatic turn to events and precipitates the climax. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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