interesting...but took too long to get there Lots of twists and turns...thought it could have been a touch shorter but a definite recommend
”When in a Search of any Nature the Understanding stands suspended, then Instances of the Fingerpost shew the true and inviolable Way in which the Question is to be decided. These Instances afford great Light, so that the Course of the Investigation will sometimes be terminated by them. Sometimes...
The Portrait is a great example of an extended first person soliloquy. Reading it is similar to reading the script for a one-man play. The painter-narrator, over the course of several evenings, rambles to his somewhat captive and uncharacteristically mute audience, a boorish critic, on a wide ran...
L'ultimo caso nel mondo dell'arte per Jonathan Argyll e Flavia Di StefanoFlavia Di Stefano e Jonathan Argyll sono sposati da quattro settimane. Jonathan è un ex mercante d’arte inglese, un po’ pasticcione, con una spiccata tendenza a mettersi nei guai: quando un quadro viene rubato o viene commes...
The author writes plots in this series which remind me of Russian Matryoshka dolls. Some of the books nest up to six dolls deep in twists, while others nest four. This is a five doll mystery. The characters, Flavia di Stefano and Jonathan Argyll, are quickly moved along a life timeline as well; F...
”But she was most struck by the reaction from the audience. They were not admiring the delicacy of the brush strokes, the masterly application of shading or the subtleties of the composition, that was certain. They were ogling. Not a usual reaction for connoisseurs. She herself was caught up in t...
El sueño de Escipión trata el clásico y apasionante tema del papel de la cultura en tiempos de guerra. A partir de tres personajes similares, hombres de letras representativos de su tiempo, el autor desarrolla otras tantas historias paralelas ambientadas en Provenza durante momentos históricos de...
Originally published on my blog here& in July 2000.The third of Pears' Jonathan Argyll novels is by far the most wide ranging in setting, much of the action (including the murder) taking place in Los Angeles rather than Italy, the country which basically contains the other stories. Jonathan trave...
Within three months he had become a fugitive, hunted for the murder of his own uncle.From being a source of pride, his name became a death sentence, and he had to become a wanderer, a person of no name. He had travelled in search of safety, and had found it, but never any peace. His fall weighed ...