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World-famous sleuths Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Philip Marlowe, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe, and Porfiry Petrovich gather in Rome to ponder Charles Dickens's final and unfinished novel.
Interesting and humorous discussions of the possible conclusion to Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, some of which make sense on various levels, but I didn't really buy any of them. I truly think Drood wasn't really dead. I'm not sure about much else, but I'm pretty confident of that. But the final conclusion of the book was so stupid that it negated any credibility that the rest of the book had. At least it was humorous and thought-provoking. ( )
A fun book, with lots of humorous passages, information about Dickens, and--since the original novel is also included--not a bad way to read Drood. ( )
All the great fictional detectives convene to complete Dickens' THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. The complete text by Dickens is included. But no, there is no completion. It is a bait and switch. ( )
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Die Ruine liegt unter dem Regen wie eine große ausgebrannte Augenhöhle, das erloschene Auge eines unnütz gewordenen Zeugen, verblaßt zur bloßen Verkehrsinsel zwischen den Strömen der Autos.
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… dopo una pubblica manifestazione di filantropia, durante la quale certi devoti orfani in tenera età erano stati ingozzati di bomboloni gonfi di crema e paroloni gonfi di boria.
È uno di quegli angolini dove pochi passeri fuligginosi cinguettano su alberi fuligginosi, come se si dicessero l'un l'altro: – Facciamo finta di essere in campagna, – e dove qualche zolla di prato e qualche carrettata di ghiaia consentono loro di fare questa consolante offesa alla loro, del resto minuscola, intelligenza.
«Forse a noi non si addice, – proseguì il Decano, – essere partigiani. Non partigiani. Noi ecclesiastici manteniamo caldo il cuore e fredda la mente, e teniamo una giudiziosa via di mezzo».
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PLEASE NOTE:
The D. Case is NOT the same book as The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Please do not combine them!
Charles Dickens is not the sole author of this work. Edwin Drood is contained here within a work by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, who ought also to have author credit on the book.
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World-famous sleuths Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Philip Marlowe, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe, and Porfiry Petrovich gather in Rome to ponder Charles Dickens's final and unfinished novel.
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When the world's most famous fictional sleuths convene in Rome — among them Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Hercule Poirot, Lew Archer, and Philip Marlowe — at the top of the agenda is The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. The detectives deliberate, consulting both computers and mediums. As the clues become more abundant and solutions are proposed, the mystery grows more mysterious.
Alternate chapters by Charles Dickens from The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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A bevy of fictional detectives — from Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown to Raskolnikov's nemesis, Porfiry Petrovich — convene at a conference in Rome to complete Dickens's last novel, left tantalizingly incomplete at the author's death. The playful collaborators intersperse chapters of Drood with their detectives' speculations; hence, most of the words here are Dickens's — and terrific words they are, as jovial, empty-headed Edwin Drood confesses his non-love to his long-plighted troth Rosa Bud (a non-sentiment she completely reciprocates); quarrels with swarthy, intense Neville Landless; and disappears following a Christmas Eve reconciliation party given by his opium-smoking uncle, choirmaster John Jasper — all amid a swirl of unforgettable minor luminaries, from kindly minor canon Septimus Crisparkle and fatuous auctioneer Thomas Sapsea to hypersensitive Helena Landless and mysterious investigator Dick Datchery.
Dickens is a tough act to follow, however, and the present-day chapters are weakened further by the authors' (or their translator's) tin ear for the speech of Nero Wolfe, Philip Marlowe, and Lew Archer; of all the fictional detectives here, only Hercule Poirot consistently shines in a surprising variety of roles. After reviewing the evidence and endlessly debating the long-contested premise of Jasper's guilt, the conference plumps for a solution that's surprising, logical, well-documented, and entirely new. A clever, eventually successful tour de force, mostly for audiences who'd like to renew their acquaintance with Drood — and who don't mind paying top dollar for the privilege.
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