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Mystery.
Performing Arts.
Nonfiction.
Two years after the trial for the murder of her lover, the blaze of publicity surrounding mystery writer Harriet Vane has begun to die away and Harriet decides it's time for a break. But the peace of a North Devon walking tour is rudely shattered when she discovers the body of a man on the beach, his throat slit from ear to ear. The moment the story breaks, Harriet's old friend Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to lend his powers of detection. Can the two of them discover who the murderer is?… (más)
Tras ser absuelta del asesinato de su amante en Veneno Mortal, Harriet Vane, la famosa escritora de novelas policíacas, se tomas unas vacaciones para meditar sobre su futuro. A mediados de un esplendoroso mes de junio, decide hacer una excursión por la costa sudoeste de Inglaterra. En una de esas playas desiertas, tan sólo frecuentadas por gaviotas y albatros, se sienta a comer. Tras una agradable siesta prosigue su paseo por la playa hasta dar con algo inesperado: el cuerpo sin vida de un hombre degollado.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom.
[Author's Note] In 'The Five Herrings', the plot was invented to fit a locality; in this book, the locality has been invented to fit the plot.
[Introduction] I came to the wonderful detective novels of Dorothy L. Sayers in a way that would probably make that distinguished novelist spin in her grave.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I have seen unpleasant cases, difficult cases, complicated cases, and even contradictory cases, but a case founded on stark unreason I have never met before.
'You mean,' went on Wimsey, 'that they think in clichés.'
'Eh?'
‘Formulae. “There's nothing like a mother's instinct” “Dogs and children always know.” “Kind hearts are more than coronets." “Suffering refines the character”—that sort of guff, despite all evidence to the contrary.'
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"Damn it," said Wimsey, savagely, "I always did hate watering-places!"
Mystery.
Performing Arts.
Nonfiction.
Two years after the trial for the murder of her lover, the blaze of publicity surrounding mystery writer Harriet Vane has begun to die away and Harriet decides it's time for a break. But the peace of a North Devon walking tour is rudely shattered when she discovers the body of a man on the beach, his throat slit from ear to ear. The moment the story breaks, Harriet's old friend Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to lend his powers of detection. Can the two of them discover who the murderer is?
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