G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959)
Autor/a de The Common People, 1746-1946
Sobre l'autor
Sèrie
Obres de G. D. H. Cole
Towards A Libertarian Socialism: Reflections on the British Labour Party and European Working-Class Movements (2021) 21 exemplars
Four Great Detective Novels [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Red House Mystery | The Rasp | The Man from the River] (1938) 12 exemplars
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 3, The Second International, 1889-1914, Part 1 only (1956) 9 exemplars
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 3, The Second International, 1889-1914, Part 2 only (1963) 9 exemplars
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Part 2 only (1958) 8 exemplars
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931 (1958) 7 exemplars
Great Britain in the post-war world 7 exemplars
Oxford Poetry 1915 6 exemplars
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Part 1 only (1969) 5 exemplars
An introduction to trade unionism 5 exemplars
Death in the sun 4 exemplars
English Economic History 1922 3 exemplars
Death of a bride 3 exemplars
Principles of economic planning 2 exemplars
The case for industrial partnership 2 exemplars
Historia del pensamiento socialista. Tomos 1 a 7 2 exemplars
Politics and literature. 2 exemplars
Mrs. Warrender's profession 2 exemplars
The Toys of Death 2 exemplars
Europe, Russia and the Future 1 exemplars
A Century of Co-operation 1 exemplars
Workers' Control and Self-Government in Industry 1 exemplars
Oxford poetry, 1910-1913 1 exemplars
William Morris as a socialist : a lecture given on 16th January 1957 to the William Morris Society at the Art Workers'… (1977) 1 exemplars
the Social Contract 1 exemplars
Banks and Credit 1 exemplars
Beaumont & Fletcher : lyrics from the plays — Editor — 1 exemplars
British Working Class Movement 1787-1947 1 exemplars
The machinery of socialist planning 1 exemplars
Historia de las ideas políticas 1 exemplars
Energetics of the Geomagnetic Storms 1 exemplars
Victory or vested interest? 1 exemplars
British Labour Movement--Retrospect and Prospect 1 exemplars
Che cosa è il denaro? 1 exemplars
War Aims 1 exemplars
Thomas Campion: Selected Poems. (The Ormond Poets Number 9) — Editor — 1 exemplars
Birthday gifts, and other stories 1 exemplars
In Peril of His Life 1 exemplars
G. D. H. Cole on Labour's foreign policy 1 exemplars
Planning of world trade 1 exemplars
The Second International. A History of Socialist Thought volume III. 2 volume set (1963) 1 exemplars
A Plan for Democratic Britain 1 exemplars
British Working Class Movement, The 1 exemplars
Oxford poetry, 1914 1 exemplars
New beginnings 1 exemplars
Workers' control series 1 exemplars
The Dialectic -- Conclusion 1 exemplars
Workers' control for railwaymen 1 exemplars
Is this socialism? 1 exemplars
Que é socialismo? 1 exemplars
Control socialista de la industria 1 exemplars
Guide to the Elements of Socialism 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Del contracte social o Principis del dret polític (1762) — Traductor, algunes edicions — 5,392 exemplars
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Col·laborador — 103 exemplars
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Col·laborador — 103 exemplars
Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays (1942) — Editor — 26 exemplars
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
The Big book of detective stories — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Selected Lyrics — Editor — 2 exemplars
The great detectives — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Cole, George Douglas Howard
- Data de naixement
- 1889-09-25
- Data de defunció
- 1959-01-14
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- University of Oxford (Balliol College)
St Paul's School, London, England, UK - Professions
- historian
economist
writer (economy and detectives)
philosopher - Relacions
- Cole, Margaret Isabel (wife)
- Organitzacions
- Fabian Society
Detection Club
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 167
- També de
- 29
- Membres
- 1,076
- Popularitat
- #23,896
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 10
- ISBN
- 147
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 1
Dr Ben Tancred is a private investigator who appears in two books by G. D. H. and M. Cole. Unusually, although both publlshed within a year of each other, they are set about twenty-five years apart. What is more, several of the characters in the earlier book also appear in this one, which means that they should be read in chronological order if possible. Unfortunately, they are both quite scarce books, particularly the first of the two, and I've only read this, the second. (It was reprinted some years ago as part of the Crime Club series "The Disappearing Detectives", but I don't think this had a very large print run.)
Dr Tancred is approached by an old acquaintance, Sarah Pendexter, in connection with the recent death of Lord St. Blaizey. She believes very strongly that it was murder (which view she shares with the doctor who examined the body) and that it was committed by her nephew, Rupert. However, this view appears to be mainly based on her claim that she saw the murder committed in a vision (she is a religious fanatic, and many people consider her insane). However, Tancred thinks that her other claim, to have seen Rupert riding on a horse in the vicinity of the crime (which was carried out by knocking the old man off his horse, in the woods near his residence), to be more credible, and eventually he decides to agree to investigate the case.
After consulting Superintendent Wilson (who was involved in the previous case, but plays only a small part in this one), Tancred goes down to the area where the victim lived (in Cornwall, near the river Fowey) and starts to look into the case. Another person whom he had met before is Rupert's sister Helen, who is now married to the victim's son, and hence has become Lady St Blaizey as a result of her father-in-law's death. Could she be involved in the murder? We have learned in the first chapter that she was previously tried for the murder of her stepfather (the story of this is told in the earlier book), and Ben was the main person responsible for her acquittal. He thought that he knew who really was the killer on the earlier occasion, but was unable to prove it, and that person is the principal suspect now. However, it takes a good deal of investigation to bring the case to a climax, with other issues involving a possibly forged will and a second murder.
It should be added that the book is set in a real area, with only slight changes to some place names (the reasons for which don't entirely make sense) and I was interested to note, by comparing the map provided with a modern road-map, that the area covered would today have to include the Eden Project!… (més)