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Lädt ... The Lusitania Murdersvon Max Allan Collins
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. good cozy, not one of his most likable characters ( ) This is the third of the author's "disaster mystery" series I have read, in which a real life famous amateur sleuth investigates murder against a slightly fictionalised version of a famous disaster scenario. The sleuth this time is the little known Willard Huntington Wright, who wrote under the pseudonym SS Van Dine (which makes him sound like a Dutch steamship!). He investigates murder, theft and German saboteurs aboard the famous liner, sank by German torpedo(es) in May 1915 (in reality he wasn't on the Lusitania's last voyage, though he did travel on it a few months earlier). I didn't particularly care for Van Dine, who came across as more two dimensional than Jacques Futrelle in The Titanic Murders, and the fictional Pinkerton detective Philomena Vance seemed an unlikely figure. The plot was mediocre, and the actual sinking took place in a rather matter of fact way in the last chapter. The real ship took only 18 minutes to sink (compared to the Titanic's 2 hours 40 mins - erroneously stated as 4 hours in a footnote in this novel) and there is controversy over the second explosion that sank the ship - was it a second torpedo or an internal explosion and if so caused by what? Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The Lusitania's final voyage is a newsman's dream. First come the torpedo warnings. Then come the murders... Journalist and mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright boards the Lusitania in pursuit of a hot story. Under the guise of conducting interviews with prominent passengers, his real assignment is to investigate rumors that the luxury liner is carrying illicit cargo for the British war effort against Germany. But Wright, traveling under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine, isn't the only passenger with an ulterior motive. Hours after the ship receives torpedo threats, three German stowaways are found murdered. And Wright suspects the deaths are part of a larger conspiracy. Comparing clues and matching wits with Detective Philomina Vance, the pair must solve the murders before the killer can sabotage the entire ship. Recreating the days up to the ship's fatal encounter with a German U-boat, The Lusitania Murders is historical fiction at its entertaining best. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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