The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade: Volume 4 - Brossura

Trow, M J

Brossura

ISBN 10: 190960948X ISBN 13: 9781909609488

Casa editrice: Thistle Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse walled up in Shanklin Chine.

But this is only the start of the nightmare - the first in a series of killings so brutal, so bizarre and apparently so random that only a warped genius (and a master of disguise) could be responsible. Even when Lestrade pieces together the extraordinary pattern of the crimes from the extraordinary poems sent after each murder, he is no closer to knowing the identity of the mysterious 'Agrippa', the 'great, long, red-legged scissorman'. It becomes a very personal battle and Lestrade's desperate race to avert the next death in the sequence takes him all over the country, from London to the Pennines and back.

Lestrade whirls from ballroom to bar-room, from vicarage to Spiritualist gathering, from the studio of the celebrated Alma-Tadema to 221B Baker Street with spellbinding panache.

'Dry neo-Wodehousian wit runs through this bold revisionist mystery... The true sleuthing brain of the times belongs to Scotland Yard's Inspector Sholto Lestrade... The buffoonish Holmes and his idiotic disguises are a hoot.'
Publishers' Weekly

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Recensione:

"Trow is at his wicked best when poking fun at the Holmes legacy – you won’t believe how Holmes really died! A must read for all Sherlock Holmes fans."
Writer’s Block Magazine (Canada)

"Smarting from humiliating deductive defeats by Sherlock Holmes, Lestrade of the Yard belies the Great Detective's opinion of him by taking on Jack the Ripper and unravelling a succession of doggerel-accompanied murders. Splendidly shaken cocktail of Victorian fact and fiction as Holmes and Watson join Tennyson, Swinburne, Alma-Tadema and the Prince of Wales in helping Lestrade's trawl. Witty, literate and great fun."
Marcel Berlins, The Times

"The joke's a good one, and it lasts all the way through the book because Mr Trow is just too good a writer to overdo it."
Police

"The policeman so frequently patronised by the Great Detective solves ten bizarre killings, is twice seduced and finally saved from death as a circus ring's human cannonball. This is murder as vaudeville with Tennyson, Swinburne and Wilde joining the crosstalk. It's a gas."
Matthew Coady, The Guardian

"Dry neo-Wodehosian wit runs through this bold revisionist mystery...The true sleuthing brain of the times belongs to Scotland Yard’s Inspector Sholto Lestrade...The buffoonish Holmes and his idiotic disguises are a hoot."    
Publishers’ Weekly

"There are many pastiches and spin offs featuring the world's greatest detective, though nothing quite like this, with Sherlock being a minor player of pompous nature, while the much beleaguered Inspector Lestrade takes the center stage... It's a delight."
Mia D (Reviewer)
 

L'autore:

M J Trow is a crime writer, historian and biographer who for many years doubled as a history teacher. Now retired, he is the author of three successful crime fiction series – Lestrade, Maxwell and Kit Marlowe, the latest written in collaboration with his wife. He lives in the Isle of Wight, and as well as writing lectures on cruise ships has appeared many times on television in historical and crime documentaries.

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• Editore: Thistle Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 190960948X
• ISBN 13: 9781909609488
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200