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Cargando... Trouble Follows Mepor Ross Macdonald
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Stopped reading about 15 pages in, when the protagonist and a few other characters started having an incredibly racist discussion. I don't need to spend time with these kinds of characters. ( ) Originally published in 1946, this book is very much of its time. The wider cultural context is that of soldiers returning from the war and figuring out what to do with themselves, which makes for an interesting backdrop. The mystery is interesting with three separate murders and a nice spy plot worked in. But the most fascinating aspect for me was the stark race relation portrayal, told with a blunt honesty that you'd never get from a book published in the last 30 years, and yet with a sympathy toward the downtrodden that probably wasn't particularly characteristic of many books of the time. A nice piece of work. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In the last days of World War II, a sailor discovers a transcontinental conspiracy in this classic from "the greatest mystery novelist of his age" (John Connolly, author of Every Dead Thing). It is February 1945, and the war in the Pacific is nearing its climax. In Hawaii on his way to a new post, US Navy ensign Sam Drake stumbles across the girl of his dreams. Mary is a disc jockey, with a voice that's famous across the islands for playing late-night jazz that no young lover can resist. Before he can follow this modern siren home, they go to check on Mary's coworker Sue--but that lovely young lady will never spin another record. They find her strung up and dangling outside the window of a bathroom, her face twisted into an ugly mask. The police call it suicide, but Sam is not so sure. Few beautiful women, even suicidal ones, are willing to be so hideous in death. Looking into Sue's past, he finds another corpse--and a dangerous conspiracy that stretches all the way back to his Motor City home. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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