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Cargando... The Taint of Midaspor Anne Zouroudi
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 Combined with plotting contrivances and a stagy feel, any lightness of touch in the fat man's inquiries is lost beneath the novel's presiding didactic tone. With neither mischief nor procedural grit, Zouroudi is left with an amiable but somewhat sententious inquisitor whose own pointedly ambiguous provenance is more of an intrigue than the investigations around him.  This is the second book in Zouroudi's Hermes Diaktoros series, and the subject is greed - the first, The Messenger of Athens, dealt with lust. It's good news for readers that there are five more sins to go, because Diaktoros is a delight. Half Poirot, half deus ex machina, but far more earth-bound than his first name suggests, the portly detective has an other-worldly, Marlowesque incorruptibility as he waddles through the mean olive groves Pertenece a las series
For over half a century, the beautiful, ruined Temple of Apollo has been in the care of the old beekeeper Gabrilis. But when the value of the land soars, he is forced to sign away his interests - and hours later he meets a violent, lonely death.When Hermes Diaktoros finds his friend's battered body by a dusty roadside, the police quickly make him the prime suspect. But with rapacious developers threatening Arcadia's most-ancient sites, there are many who stand to gain from Gabrilis's death. Hermes resolves to avenge his old friend and find the true culprit, but his methods are, as ever, unorthodox ... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Cuando Hermes Diaktoros encuentra el cuerpo maltrecho de su amigo en una cuneta, la policía lo considera el principal sospechoso. Sin embargo, son los promotores más codiciosos que amenazan los antiguos yacimientos de la isla de Arcadia quienes resultarían más beneficiados con la muerte de Gabrilis. Hermes decide vengar a su viejo amigo y encontrar al verdadero culpable, aunque sus métodos son, como siempre, poco ortodoxos...