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S'està carregant… Murder on the cliffsde Joanna Challis
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  NHreader | Aug 29, 2016 |   Daphne is visiting Cornwall to research local history at an Abbey and encounters a teenage girl, Lianne Hartley, leaning over a beautiful young woman's dead body on the beach during a storm. Lianne identifies the dead woman as Victoria Bastion, the local town girl who was about to marry Lianne's brother, Lord David Hartley. Daphne soon meets other members of the aristocratic Hartley family, whose complex relationships and great house, an Elizabethan mansion called Padthaway, cast a spell on her. Since Ms. du Maurier's family is well known and friends with the Prime Minister she is welcome at the great Padthaway, encouraged to be the friend of Lianne and the grieving groom takes an interest in her. All of which gives her easy access to snoop and question. The young miss du Maurier is staying with the retire nurse to her Daphne's mother on the wild coast of Cornwall. This tale drips of gothic romantic imagery, but often times the writing is a bit confusing (even to a gothic suspense lover like myself). If you can wade through the sometimes convoluted and wordy sentences it is an entertaining tale. The mystery is a classic formula, a secretive and powerful family that the villagers feel will get away with the murder of the beautiful town girl making good by marrying the Lord. A limited number of people as suspects within the house provide some twists and turns. The character of miss du Maurier as an imaginative, slightly headstrong and lovely young lady who discovers the dead body and takes on the pleas of the grieving mother to find out who killed Victoria is convincingly portrayed. I must say I liked... Read the complete review here: http://mysterysuspence.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-murder-on-cliffs-by-joanna.ht... (  ) AFHeart | Apr 15, 2010 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman, dressed only in a nightgown, her hair strewn along the rocks, her eyes gazing up to the heavens. Daphne soon learns that the mysterious woman was engaged to marry Lord Hartley of Padthaway, an Elizabethan mansion full of intriguing secrets. As the daughter of the famous Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne is welcomed into the Hartley home, but when the drowning turns out to be murder, Daphne determines to get to the bottom of the mysteries of Padthaway--in part to find fresh inspiration for her writing, and in part because she cannot resist the allure of grand houses and long buried secrets. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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However...love the setting on Cornwall! (