L'incendio nella stanza

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L incendio nella stanza As a rule bigamists don t gravitate to the biochemistry department of sleepy Knotlington University and Dr Patrick Carey senior lecturer is it would seem no exception Eyebrows are raised howeve

As a rule, bigamists don t gravitate to the biochemistry department of sleepy Knotlington University, and Dr Patrick Carey, senior lecturer, is, it would seem, no exception Eyebrows are raised, however, when a letter addressed simply to Professor Carey, Knotlington U , ends up on his desk a letter that comes, it is widely known, from a woman claiming to be Dr CareyAs a rule, bigamists don t gravitate to the biochemistry department of sleepy Knotlington University, and Dr Patrick Carey, senior lecturer, is, it would seem, no exception Eyebrows are raised, however, when a letter addressed simply to Professor Carey, Knotlington U , ends up on his desk a letter that comes, it is widely known, from a woman claiming to be Dr Carey s wife Dr Carey has abandoned her to a state of abject poverty, she claims, and she is none too happy about it.Patrick immediately suspects the involvement of his unstable younger brother, David, a chronic liar who has been known to assume identities other than his own, and he fears trouble Trouble duly arrives when the woman turns up on Patrick s doorstep Someone in the department must have given her his address But who among his colleagues could dislike Patrick and his wife enough to cause them such embarrassment.Just when things to be settling down again, someone sets fire to Patrick s boss s house, and the deserted wife is found dead in the ruins, actually locked in the study Then the boss himself is murdered, practically on Patrick s doorstep The key to the locked room is found in his flat, and the blunt object that killed his boss came from his own laboratory.Could David be the killer Or perhaps one of Patrick s colleagues Could at least one of the murders have been a mistake Patrick must find out if he is to save his career and clear his brot

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  1. Elizabeth Ferrars Maria Luisa Vesentini Ottolenghi says:
    Aka E.X Ferrars.Born Morna Doris McTaggart in Rangoon, Burma of a Scottish father and an Irish German mother, she grew up in England where she moved at age six She attended Bedales school and then took a diploma in journalism at London University.Her first two novels, Turn Single 1932 and Broken Music 1934 , came out under her own name, Morna McTaggart In the early 1930s she married her first husband but she left him, moved to Belsize Park in London and lived with Dr Robert Brown, a lecturer in botany at Bedford College in 1942 She eventually divorced her first husband in October 1945 and married Dr, later Professor, Brown.It was in 1940 that her first crime novel Give a Corpse a Bad Name was published under the pseudonymn that she had adopted, Elizabeth sometimes Elizabeth X particularly in the USA Ferrars, the Ferrars her mother s maiden name This novel featured her young detective Toby Dyke, who was to feature in four other of her novels.When her husband was offered a post at Cornell University in the USA, the couple moved there but remained only a year before returning to Britain They travelled with her husband s work, on one occasion visiting Adelaide when he was a visiting professor at the University of South Australia, and later moved to Edinburgh where her husband was appointed Regius Professor of Botany and they lived in the city until 1977 when, on her husband s retirement, they moved to Blewsbury in Oxfordshire where they lived until her sudden death in 1995.She continued to write a crime novel almost every year and in 1953 she was a founding member of the Crime Writers Association of which she later became chairperson in 1977.As well as her short series of works featuring Toby Dyke, she wrote a series featuring retired botanist Andrew Basnett and another series featuring a semi estranged married couple, Virginia and Felix Freer All in all she wrote over seventy novels, her final one A Thief in the Night being published posthumously.Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor described her as having a sound enough grasp of motives and human relations and a due regard for probability and technique, but whose people and plot are so standard.Gerry WolstenholmeNovember 2010

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  1. Patrick is a happily married lecturer in botany his only complaint is his boss, department head Margaret, who likes promoting dissension among her staff When a woman appears claiming to be married to Patrick, he quickly realizes that she s been deceived by his brother David, a man who prefers to live on the shady side of the law Henrietta, Patrick s real wife, can deal with any amount of unpleasantness, but when two women are killed, she s afraid that the police will find Patrick s story too imp [...]

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  2. A typical mayhem and mystery type story neither bad nor really notbale in any significant way For some the ending might be utterly redictable I was able to get it right or wrong I like a mystery novel to twist me around a leave me guessing until the end and this one just didn t do that.

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  3. Her books are page turners, but after you finish, there is a feeling as of eating cotton candy enjoyable at the time but not much substance Perfect escape reading.

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  4. Good story Full of suspects, although I was pretty sure early on that I knew who it was Not for those who want a tough complicated mystery, just a cosy fun read I enjoy Ms Ferrars books.

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