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My True Love Lies
Lenore Glen Offord
出版
Felony & Mayhem Press
, 2017-01-15
主題
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General
ISBN
163194097X
9781631940972
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VU_xDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In this Golden Age mystery set in post-World War II California, an art student must determine who fits the mold of a killer.
The War is over, but only just, and San Francisco is still crammed with military uniforms. Of course, being San Francisco, it’s also crammed with Bohemians (in a few years, they’ll be known as Beatniks). Noel Bruce straddles both camps: By day she’s a strait-laced driver for the Navy, but at night she lets her hair down and parties with her flamboyant art-school chums. The party comes to a screeching halt, however, when a dead body turns up in a sculptor’s studio, and the artists discover that pretentious mannerisms and amusing facial hair provide little defense against the chill of fear . . .
As in
Skeleton Key
, the heroine is a working woman, and, like all of Offord’s novels,
My True Love Lies
provides an intriguing bridge between old-fashioned, 1930s-style plotting and a kind of feminism that feels startlingly up-to-date.
“Mrs. Offord with each book entrenches herself more firmly as one of our leading feminine mystery novelists . . . There is always a reasonable plot backed by warm characters, and above all, intelligent writing.” —Dorothy B. Hughes, author of
In a Lonely Place