The Green Murder Case presents Philo Vance one of his most perplexing mysteries. Two women are shot, one fatally, in a New York mansion where four adult children and one adopted daughter live with their invalid mother, according to the terms of the father’s will. The police think it was a robbery gone wrong. A [...]
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Greene Murder Case Decent Potboiler
Posted in 1928 Bestselling Novels, Mystery, Psychological novel, Suspense, tagged Philo Vance, S.S. Van Dine on September 24, 2008 |
Swan Song Great Novel, Poor Overture
Posted in 1928 Bestselling Novels, Literary, Psychological novel, tagged England, Soames Forsyte, The Forsyte Chronicles, The Modern Comedy on September 17, 2008 |
I don’t recommend Swan Song to anyone who hasn’t read the other five novels in [The Forsyte Chronicles]. You won’t understand why characters act as they do unless you know what’s happened in earlier books.
Wintersmoon never catches fire
Posted in 1928 Bestselling Novels, Psychological novel, Romance, tagged marriage of convenience on September 10, 2008 |
Hugh Walpole’s Wintersmoon turns the romance novel on its head.
Selfishness masquerades as love throughout the novel, causing no end of problems, just as it does in real life.
Slender Bridge Destroyed by Weighty Prose
Posted in 1928 Bestselling Novels, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, tagged Inquisition, monk, Peru, Pulitzer Prize on September 3, 2008 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey won Thornton Wilder a Pulitzer Prize in 1928. The novel has since been ignored in favor of less literary but more entertaining reading.
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