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The Key of the Chest

Neil M. Gunn

出版	Canongate Books, 1998
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN	08624177089780862417703
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k7KFDmoUlhIC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead—but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money? These questions hang like a threat over the various members of a small community struggling to keep life going on a hard, relentless coast. It is a mystery in which Neil Gunn displays his skills as a writer of depth and subtlety and we emerge from the tale asking questions about the nature and meaning of community itself, and how it can survive in a bewildering and violent modernity.