The Body in the Closet

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The Body in the Closet (AudiobookFormat, 1995, Audio Literature)

audio cassette

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 13-a de aprilo 1995 de Audio Literature.

ISBN:
978-1-55800-872-4
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Numero OCLC:
520839006

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Formulaic, but still diverting

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Reading Marek Kohn's new exploration of bilingualism, Four Words For Friend, recently has refreshed my enthusiasm for improving my French and I thought this Mary Higgins Clark crime novella would be the best of the French language books I have awaiting me to start with. It's just 71 pages long and, once I'd got my eye back in on the verb conjugations, was an entertaining little read.

The premise is that a body is found in a wardrobe and, of our cast of eight, half are potential suspects. Fortunately Alvirah, the owner of the wardrobe, as well as being a newly minted multi-millionaire, is an amateur sleuth who is only too eager to beat the police to a conclusion, especially one which gets her unfortunate nephew off the hook. Clark doesn't go much in for characterisation or character development, preferring descriptions of expensive furniture instead, and the mystery itself was …

Temoj

  • Suspense
  • Fiction
  • Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General
  • Audio Adult: Books On Tape
  • FIC030000
  • FIC