Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime Story (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Meredith, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071235686X ISBN 13: 9780712356862

Verlag: The British Library Publishing Division, 2017

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Críticas:

With a sharp eye for hypocrisy, Anne Meredith skewers a politician whose sole aim is to acquire a peerage, a city conman for ever seeking the easy path to riches and an artist who sacrifices his wife and children to his self-proclaimed genius. The culmination is a clever twist on the theme of rough justice. --Daily Mail, October 2017

The British Library's publishing imprint has been doing sterling work resurrecting crime novels from the annals of history and this latest example marks their 50th publication . . . the result is a riveting, uncomfortable encounter with a murderous mind. --Metro, December 2017

Characterisation is superb . . . excellent, pithy writing. --The Bookbag, September 2017

Reseña del editor:

'Powerful and impressive ...there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. SayersAdrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933, a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, Kings Poplars. None of Gray's six surviving children is fond of him; several have cause to wish him dead. The family gathers on Christmas Eve - and by the following morning, their wish has been granted. This fascinating and unusual novel tells the story of what happened that dark Christmas night; and what the murderer did next.

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• Verlag: The British Library Publishing Division
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 071235686X
• ISBN 13: 9780712356862
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288