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Lädt ... Behind Closed Doors (1888)von Anna Katharine Green
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"Behind Closed Doors" is an 1888 detective novel written by American novelist Anna Katharine Green. The fifth book in Green's detective series featuring Mr. Gryce, "Behind Closed Doors" is a riveting tale of mystery and intrigue not to be missed by fans of classic detective fiction and collectors of Green's sensational work. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American novelist and poet. Among the first writers of detective fiction in America, she is considered to be the "mother" of the genre for her legally-accurate and well-thought-out plots. Other notable works by this author include: "The Leavenworth Case" (1878), "A Strange Disappearance" (1880), and "The Circular Study" (1900). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this vintage detective novel now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It's a shame that this is so hard to come by because I thought this was the strongest book in the series so far. The plot is almost Wilkie Collins-esque featuring two women who look so alike that at one point one's fiancee mistakes one woman for the other. There's a bride who disappears for days before her wedding day only to reappear at the last minute and another bride who disappears just before her wedding and then is found dying. She seems to have been poisoned but is it suicide or murder? And what could the motive be?
But although the plot brought to mind one of Wilkie Collins' sensation novels, the style is different. Gryce is a very methodical detective: slow, steady, and painstaking and the way Gryce uncovers the clues and solves the mystery is one of the strengths of this detective novel. Like the earlier Gryce books, he is often assisted by other detectives, both official detectives like 'Q' (short for Query) a young, undercover detective we met in The Leavenworth Case, or Mrs Roberts described as 'an expert female detective' and unofficial detectives like the medical man, Dr Campion who wants to clear his wife's name.
The fault with AKG's books for today's readers lies in the amount of melodrama in the book and the occasional implausibility of the plot. The solution to this mystery is logically sound but I to find it psychologically credible you need to believe people really behave as if they were in a melodrama, more so than I find with something like [The Woman in White]. But if you can cope with the melodrama then I do recommend this series ( )