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S'està carregant… After Midnight (1966)de Helen Nielsen
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Marriage ends in murder: when the husband is found stabbed to death and his wife passed out drunk in the bedroom with the murder weapon on the other pillow, naturally she is the prime suspect. Gadabout lawyer Simon takes on the case when he notices the widow's -- shall we say, wiles -- and sets out to prove her innocence. I picked this novel up on the cheap for the Amazon Kindle because I had read one of Nielsen's stories anthologized in Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives. Overall, I thought this was a rather weak and cliched story with no true surprises. Although Nielsen's mouthpiece character does make a case at one point that women should be viewed as people, there were far too many cliches about women littering the story to suit me, and the overly quick romance between the protagonist and his client was rather distasteful. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
A beautiful suspect with an intense desire to kill. The murder of Roger Warren seemed like an open-and-shut case. The evening before, Roger and his dazzling wife Wanda had moved from one bar to another, fighting loudly and publicly. The next morning, the dead figure of Roger was slumped in a living room chair...while Wanda lay sleeping in bed, a bloodied knife on the pillow beside her.At the District Attorney's office, the bereaved beauty could remember nothing...except an intense desire to kill. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.91Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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The difference here is that the person who wakes up confused after a night of drinking is a woman, Wanda Warren to be precise, and the bloody corpse at the kitchen was her husband. What's more they fought all night after Wanda was found in a seaside bar in a booth with three sailors, indulging in drink after drink with her laughter ringing out above all other noise. She was a go-go girl in a glass cage shaking it every weekend evening when they met and her husband came from big money.
The story then morphs into a legal drama with society attorney and Bon vivant Simon Drake offering his services and, against all belief, fighting to prove his lovely client's innocence.
The story may not be as heavy on the action as others in the crime fiction arena, but it is an excellent mystery that takes the reader on a legal and investigative journey as Drake explores one clue after another. The cast of characters is quite good including a retired admiral who lived on a yacht, a proper nurse who took long walks and quotes poetry, Drake's confidant Hannah, and an ambitious district attorney.
It was an compelling read that couldn't be put down and was really enjoyable. ( )