The Gay Phoenix

Michael Innes

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Penguin Books, 1976

0140047018 / 9780140047011

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Presenting: The Gay Phoenix (1976) by Michael Innes ? Penguin paperback royalty with an orange spine so confident it practically applies for a peerage. ISBN: 0140047018 . Condition: Good , which in the grand old bookselling tradition means it has lived a little, learned a lot, and still remembers where the bodies are buried. This is Innes in his late-career, dry-martini mode: urbane mischief, puzzling doings, and the kind of allusive wit that assumes you?ve read three shelves of classics and at least one railway timetable. If you want gunfights in air vents, look elsewhere. If you fancy cool intrigue, artful dialogue, and that sly feeling of being in on the joke, welcome to the club. From the outside: a classic Penguin?respectably scuffed, with honest edge-wear that says ?I?ve been to more drawing rooms than you.? Pages show the light tanning you?d expect from a seventies paperback that has gazed thoughtfully into the middle distance for decades. The binding? Still game. The text? Crisp enough to slice a country house alibi. No dramatic annotations, unless you count the faint, charming whisper of previous readers turning pages to see who did what, where, and with which devastating bon mot. Inside: you?ll find the usual Innes cocktail?mystery with a raised eyebrow, characters who could start a literary society just by sharing an umbrella, and plotting so neat it might?ve been ironed. Expect cultivated chaos: art people, money people, impeccably suspicious people, all drifting toward the moment when everything snaps into place with the smug precision of a well-tied bow tie. Why this copy? Because Crappy Old Books has a talent for finding un-crappy old books and naming the shop accordingly, just to keep expectations manageable. Our ?Good? means readable, shelvable, lendable, and entirely capable of making your other paperbacks feel underdressed. It won?t win a beauty pageant against a shrink-wrapped reissue, but it has the kind of character you can?t laminate. Ideal for: Readers who prefer their mysteries clever rather than shouty. Fans of Inspector-ish elegance, literary Easter eggs, and crimes committed with impeccable grammar. Anyone who appreciates a Penguin that looks like it?s spent time in a gentleman?s library and a slightly disreputable café, in that order. In short: a witty, nimble late-golden-age whodunnit with the cultivated charm of someone who apologises before accusing you of murder. The Gay Phoenix rises again?gently, stylishly, and on time?brought to you by Crappy Old Books , where the name is self-deprecating and the stock is surprisingly dapper. …

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Titolo
The Gay Phoenix
Autore
Michael Innes
Editore
Penguin Books
Anno di pubblicazione
1976
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0140047018
ISBN 13
9780140047011

Crappy Old Books

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Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine. Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates. The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.

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