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Hoping for peace and quiet, a novelist checks in to a secluded hotel and becomes part of a noisy conspiracy in this classic mystery from the creator of Charlie Chan After years of churning out potboilers, novelist Billy Magee decides that he needs just two months of solitude to produce a work of true literary merit. New York is too crowded with distractions, so he embarks on a journey to the loneliest place he knows: a rambling summer resort that has been closed for the winter. He plans to live by candlelight and firewood for the next eight weeks, with nothing to do but write. On his very first night at Baldpate Inn, however, Magee receives an unwelcome visitor. For some reason, the man is very nervous. Could it have something to do with the revolver clutched in his hand? Magee was promised the only key to the hotel, but five more peculiar interlopers arrive, each with a key. It is clear that the author is caught up in a strange and baffling plot. The question is, who's pulling the strings? Magee hopes to find out soon, lest he turn up dead before he can start his book. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.… (más)
This is a very convoluted story which didn't grip me at any moment. Nobody knows anything, everybody hunts for a stolen treasure, and the whole story remains mysterious and boring until the very end. A waste of time.
I listened to the audiobook, recorded by LibriVox volunteers, and as a non-native speaker, I had trouble understanding some of the chapters, due to a very strong accent of one of the narrators. This naturally added to the fact that I didn't enjoy the story. ( )
1911 Baldpate Inn in Upper Asquewan Falls, William Magee has made an arrangement to stay at the closed mountain resort, alone. Then the holders of the other 6 available keys start arriving. What is it that they want, who is the real owner of the package. Is Magee the only innocent. An enjoyable historical mystery story ( )
Pretty good. It's a good thing it's short, because it was right on the edge of becoming tiresome, but at it's given length it was pretty entertaining, if a bit predictable. ( )
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A young woman was crying bitterly in the waiting-room of the railway station at Upper Asquewan Falls, New York.
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(as Magee tries to turn the water on in the inn) His ardor was somewhat dampened - a paradox - by the failure of the spigot to gush forth a response.
"The truth is, however, that the noble art of fiction writing has come to lean more and more heavily on its illustrators. The mere words that go with the pictures grow less important every day. There are dozens of distinguished novelists in the country at this moment who might be haberdashers if it weren't for the long, lean, haughty ladies who are scattered tastefully through their works."
Mr. Peters at last seated the winter guests of Baldpate Inn, and opened his luncheon with a soup which he claimed to have wrested from a can. This news drew from Professor Bolton a learned discourse on the tinned aids to the hermit of to-day. He pictured the seeker for solitude setting out for a desert isle, with canned foods for his body and canned music for his soul. "Robinson Crusoe," he said, "should be rewritten with a can-opener in the leading rôle." Mrs. Norton gave the talk a more practical turn by bringing up ptomaine poisoning.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"Why, darling," he explained gently, "This is it."
Hoping for peace and quiet, a novelist checks in to a secluded hotel and becomes part of a noisy conspiracy in this classic mystery from the creator of Charlie Chan After years of churning out potboilers, novelist Billy Magee decides that he needs just two months of solitude to produce a work of true literary merit. New York is too crowded with distractions, so he embarks on a journey to the loneliest place he knows: a rambling summer resort that has been closed for the winter. He plans to live by candlelight and firewood for the next eight weeks, with nothing to do but write. On his very first night at Baldpate Inn, however, Magee receives an unwelcome visitor. For some reason, the man is very nervous. Could it have something to do with the revolver clutched in his hand? Magee was promised the only key to the hotel, but five more peculiar interlopers arrive, each with a key. It is clear that the author is caught up in a strange and baffling plot. The question is, who's pulling the strings? Magee hopes to find out soon, lest he turn up dead before he can start his book. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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