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(4.17) | Keine | "August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyon. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. Their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back more than twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating repercussions for the present."--Provided by publisher.… (mehr) |
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Wilkie Collins, Armadale (Chapter 1, epigraph) There are periods in a man's life when he finds the society that walks on four feet a welcome relief from the society that walks on two.
Wilkie Collins, The Fallen Leaves, 1879 (Chapter 2, epigraph) But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as fact, that vice, in accomplishing the vast majority of its seductions, uses no disguise at all; instead appears impudently in its naked deformity; and, instead of horrifying all beholders, in accordance with the prediction of the classical satirist, absolutely attracts a more numerous congregation of worshippers than has ever yet been brought together by the divinest beauties that virtue can display for the allurement of mankind.
Wilkie Collins, Hide and Seek (Chapter 4, epigraph) I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story.
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Chapter 6, epigraph) She had been weeping; that was obvious, but she pulled herself together with a magnificent self-control that I had to admire. I told myself that if I ever had children, I would insist on them having stage-training. The ability to act a part, to cover up one's feelings, to present a chosen face to the public -- what a start in life to have that skill at your fingertips! (Chapter 8, p.102) We had our breakfasts -- no matter what happens in a house, robbery or murder, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (Chapter 12, epigraph) The face in front of me had all its bland assurance peeled from it and it was the guilty face of a murderer. He himself had said. 'There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth,' and the blotched, reddened skin of his face and the panic-filled eyes betrayed that he had heard that rough truth. (Chapter 15, p.207) | |
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But soon Collins and Dickens find themselves investigating a murder. But who was the intended victim and what secrets will be exposed.
Another entertaining and well-written historical mystery with its well-developed and likeable characters. A good addition to the series which can be read as a standalone story
An ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. (