Quick Curtain (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Buch 18 von 107: British Library Crime Classics

Melville, Alan

 
9780712357890: Quick Curtain (British Library Crime Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0712357890 ISBN 13: 9780712357890
Verlag: The British Library Publishing Division, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Quick Curtain is a witty detective story, originally published in 1934. It is one among many books that enjoyed brief popularity during the "Golden Age of murder" between the two world wars but subsequently fell out of sight. The author, Alan Melville, was a successful playwright and man of the theatre, and he uses his knowledge of backstage life to good effect in this breezy whodunit.The slender plot revolves around the shooting of the leading man, but when the show opens at the Grosvenor Theatre to a packed house, Brandon Baker is killed by a real bullet. When another member of the company is found dead, initial appearances suggest a straightforward case of murder followed by suicide. But there is, of course, more to it than that. The audience includes Inspector Wilson of Scotland Yard and his son, an enthusiastic young reporter, making an amusing variant on the Holmes-Watson pairing of sleuth and sidekick!The British Library's revival of this book, offers a new generation a chance to appreciate the work of a writer with a genuine talent to amuse.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ALAN MELVILLE (1910-1983) was a well-known television broadcaster, as well as a playwright, producer and scriptwriter. Among his works are several crime novels from the 1930s, often set in the popular entertainment world he knew at first hand.

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Verlag
The British Library Publishing Division
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712357890
ISBN 13 
9780712357890
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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