Du bist noch nicht tot: Thriller (Serienkiller, Band 4) (edition 2014)

by Dan Wells (Author), Jürgen Langowski (Übersetzer)

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Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: Wrongly imprisoned, Frederick Whithers is desperate to commit the crime he's already being punished for: defrauding the bank out of a vast inheritance. He fakes his death to escape, but when he's seen climbing out of a coffin everyone assumes he's a vampire; when he shows none of the traditional vampire weaknesses, they decide he must be the Great One, the most powerful vampire in the history of the world. Half horror and half farce, Frederick's tale is an ever-growing avalanche of bankers, constables, graverobbers, poets, ghouls, morticians, vampires, vampire hunters, not to mention some very unfortunate rabbits. With a string of allies even more unlikely than his enemies, can Frederick stay alive long enough to claim his (well, somebody's) money? And if he can't, which of his innumerable enemies will get to him first? .… (more)

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Title:	Du bist noch nicht tot: Thriller (Serienkiller, Band 4)
Authors:	Dan Wells (Author)
Other authors:	Jürgen Langowski (Übersetzer)
Info:	Piper Taschenbuch (2014), 352 pages
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A Night of Blacker Darkness: Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III by Dan Wells

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This is the most silly story! Wells leads us from one absurdity to another nonsense from beginning to end. Sean Barrett reads it as if Frederick's puzzlement and quick wits were his own : as a reader, he actually is "The Great One" (no spoiler here). The scene in the charnel house had me laughing out loud while driving which wasn't the most secure thing to do. In short, it was a great fun!
NB : I'm not sure I'll ever be able to read anything by Keats after that ;) (

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A Night of Blacker Darkness

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2011-07-26

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Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

Wrongly imprisoned, Frederick Whithers is desperate to commit the crime he's already being punished for: defrauding the bank out of a vast inheritance. He fakes his death to escape, but when he's seen climbing out of a coffin everyone assumes he's a vampire; when he shows none of the traditional vampire weaknesses, they decide he must be the Great One, the most powerful vampire in the history of the world.

Half horror and half farce, Frederick's tale is an ever-growing avalanche of bankers, constables, graverobbers, poets, ghouls, morticians, vampires, vampire hunters, not to mention some very unfortunate rabbits. With a string of allies even more unlikely than his enemies, can Frederick stay alive long enough to claim his (well, somebody's) money? And if he can't, which of his innumerable enemies will get to him first?

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Night of Blacker Darkness is a farcical vampire novel, set in Victorian times. When a man fakes his death to escape from prison, and is then seen crawling out of a coffin, it is assumed that he is a vampire. And since he is immune to things like crosses, garlic, and sunlight, then obviously he must be the greatest and most powerful master vampire of all time.

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