Título: The Cat Wears a Noose
Autor: Dolores Hitchens
Sinopse: A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the observant [and] appealing seventy-year-old sleuth (Publishers Weekly). Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives homeand just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire erupts and kills him on the spot. Jennifer is determined not to tell her sister, Rachel, anything about it. After all, Rachel considers herself a sleuth, or as Jennifer views it, a busybody who pokes her nose in places it doesnt belong. What she doesnt know is Rachel has just had a visit from a member of that same household, a meek eighteen-year-old taken in after she was orphaned and treated like a servant. Young Shirley has been alarmed by a series of nasty pranksand now shes heartbroken, and even more frightened, after finding her pet bird dead. Theres something awful going on in the house on Chestnut Street, and neither her prim and proper sister nor Det. Lt. Stephen Mayhew can stop Rachel from finding out what it is . . . Rachel has never yet failed to solve a murder mystery. Never before have her methods been quite so devious and unorthodox as they are in this story. The New York Times The Cat Wears a Noose was previously published under the pseudonymD.B. Olsen
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Cat Wears a Noose”, de Dolores Hitchens, publicado pela editora Open Road Media, em 2022 e com 211 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Open Road Media
Páginas: 211
Ano: 2022
Edição:
Linguagem: English
ISBN: 1504079868
ISBN13: 9781504079860
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Open Road Media oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada pela diversidade temática e narrativa, transitando entre histórias de suspense, fantasia e relatos históricos. O catálogo privilegia tramas densas, muitas vezes com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais ou situações extremas, como guerras, crimes complexos e conflitos pessoais profundos. Há obras com ritmo intenso e tensão crescente, enquanto outras exploram atmosferas mais sombrias e reflexivas, como em contos de fantasia adulta ou mistérios psicológicos. O material de apresentação indica ainda um interesse por narrativas que mesclam elementos históricos e ficcionais, ampliando o escopo cultural e temporal das obras.
