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Cargando... In Spite of Thunder (1960)por John Dickson Carr
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Brian Innes is asked by a doting to see his daughter Audrey Page when she comes to Geneva and convince her not to stay at film star Eve Ferrier's villa. Eve has a mysterious past her first husband Hector Matthew's died in a strange accident while the couple was visiting Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1939, with no apparent reason he apparently flung himself off a high balcony. Audrey ignores Brian's advice and instead becomes involved with the strange group at the Vila Rosalind. Innes meets with Eve at a creepy nightclub called "The Cave of the Witches" and finds she is carrying a perfume bottle filled with oil of vitriol, apparently to her own surprise. At the villa the next day Eve falls to her death from a high balcony -- and no one was near her at the time. The investigative genius of Gideon Fell joins the mystery to uncover an ingenious murder method and reveal the criminal. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly, she goes anyway and finds herself encircled by terror when a murderer strikes. With its eerie similarities to a crime that dates back to World War II, the murder attracts the attention of Dr. Gideon Fell, a brilliant sleuth with an eye for solving impossible murder cases. He will find that in this corner of the Alps, the air is thin, the scenery is beautiful, and the snow runs red with blood. In Spite of Thunder is the 20th book in the Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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