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Cargando... The Queen of Bedlampor Robert R. McCammon
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  ) Fish_Witch | Jul 4, 2023 |  McCammon says he has eight more Corbett books in the hopper so this series has a long way to go as Corbett is still a young man. It is nice to see a "horror" author able to break out of the pigeonhole, especially one this talented. ( ) Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |  ) erinlizzyward | Apr 17, 2022 | Having read the first two novels now, I think I have the basic outline of a Matthew Corbett adventure: 1 - Become embroiled in a mystery. 2 - Go against his authority figure to solve the mystery. 3 - Along the way, get handed some deeply encrypted clues. 4 - Watch the only person that could possibly decrypt them disappear. 5 - Meet a girl and develop a heavy crush. 6 - Defend that girl against some sort of clawed wildlife and end up getting rather mauled. 7 - Get raped while drugged. 8 - Solve the mystery and earn the grudging respect of the authority figure he'd previously defied. 9 - Walk away from the girl he has a crush on for no good reason. 10 - Somewhere in between all this, get beaten up at least once. For all of that, I actually enjoyed this one more than the first. The pace was a bit more brisk, the historical facts piled on a little more judiciously. Even though he doesn't get along with animals and can only get laid when he's drugged, the little bugger's kinda growing on me. I'll give him another shot. TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 | Absolutely recommended. (  ) whitewavedarling | Dec 20, 2020 |
Set in Manhattan in 1703, this spellbinding sequel to Speaks the Nightbird (2002) from bestseller McCammon finds Matthew Corbett, a 23-year-old magistrate's clerk, on the trail of the Masker, a killer who stalks prominent businessmen. Matthew stumbles on the bodies of two of the Masker's victims, including pederast Eben Ausley, the headmaster of the orphanage Matthew once reluctantly called home. Plucky Matthew, who becomes a junior associate of the New York branch of a London problem-solving firm called the Herrald Agency, discovers a possible link to the crimes in the person of an elderly amnesiac patient in a mental asylum who's known as the Queen of Bedlam. Matthew and his cohorts later make a dangerous foray to the headquarters that the villainous Professor Fell maintains for young-criminals-in-training. McCammon brilliantly captures colonial New York and closes with a tantalizing cliffhanger that suggests more exciting sleuthing to come. Pertenece a las seriesMatthew Corbett (2)
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HTML:His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identityâ??and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Who snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend "the Masker," adding fuel to a volatile mystery...and when the Masker claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart-pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may await in an asylum where the Queen of Bedlam reignsâ??and only a man of Matthew's reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. From the seaport to Wall Street, from society mansions to gutters glimmering with blood spilled by a deviant, Matthew's quest will tauntingly reveal the answers he seeksâ??and the chilling truths he canno No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Robert McCammon's Speaks the Nightbird/The Queen of Bedlam
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