The D case : the truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood

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The D case : the truth about the mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens [sic], Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Dowling

Chatto & Windus, 1994

Uniform Title

La Veritā sul caso D

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Note

Original Italian ed. entitled: La Veritā sul caso D, published: Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1989

Description and Table of Contents

Description

At an international literary conference in Rome in the near future, the greatest detectives in history (and literature) gather to solve the mystery of Dickens' unfinished novel THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and end up solving the mystery of Dickens' own death. At this crazy conference are Father Brown, Holmes, Maigret, Poirot, Marlowe, Lew Archer and even Nero Wolfe. Dickens' marvelously atmospheric novel is read to them (or imprinted on their brains by a new Japanese technique), chapter by chapter - and for the reader the chapters are interleaved with the story of the goings-on at the conference. Part detective story, part comic academic novel, part science fiction, part playful scholarship, part Dickens, THE D CASE is dazzling, offbeat, hilarious and original. (Translated by Gregory Dowling).

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Details

  • NCID
    BA2727388X
  • ISBN
    • 0701154233
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    424 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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