Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
ix, 587 pages ; 25 cm |
Note |
Dickens' Mystery of Edwin Drood with new chapters and ending by C. Fruttero and F. Lucentini translated from the Italian. |
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Spine title: The D. case, or, The truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood. |
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"A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book." |
Contents |
Part one: April Number -- Ruin lies there in the rain -- Dawn -- Thus ends the first chapter -- Dean, and a chapter also -- On this ambiguous note -- Nuns' house -- If instead of investigators -- Numbers -- Anybody who ever spent -- Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner -- More confidences than one -- Menacing conclusion -- Daggers drawn -- Birds in the bush -- After the lightning spurt -- Smoothing the way -- Picture and a ring -- Night with durdles -- At the end of the imprinting -- Part three: July and August numbers -- What is the atmosphere of a convention -- Both at their best -- When shall these three meet again? -- Thin melancholy man -- Impeached -- Devoted -- Debate on the "mystery number" -- Philanthropy, professional and unprofessional -- Settler in cloisterham -- Shadow on the sun-dial -- Divers flights -- Part four: last number -- It should now be the fourth day -- Gritty state of things comes on -- Dawn again -- We had reached the circus maximus -- If a visitor to the roman forum -- It is nine a.m., reader -- Waiting for Poirot -- The D. Case -- Epilogue. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction.
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Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Fiction.
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Added Author |
Fruttero, Carlo.
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Lucentini, Franco.
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Added Title |
Mystery of Edwin Drood
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D. case, or, The truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood. |
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Truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood. |
ISBN |
0151137323: $23.95 (Higher in Canada) |
Standard No. |
9780151137329 |
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