Título: The White Priory Murders
Autor: Carter Dickson
Sinopse: Another title from series favourite John Dickson Carr, writing under pseudonym Carter Dickson, first published in 1934. One of the top novels from one of the top writers of Golden Age mysteries, The White Priory Murders features an impossible puzzle and the Crime Classics series’ first outing for one of Dickson/Carr’s great series detectives, Sir Henry Merrivale. Set at Christmastime, snow is crucial to the impossible crime. “The ‘impossible situation’ here is the best Mr Dickson has given us” – Torquemada in The Observer, 1935 “Sir Henry is at his best in this baffling yarn, and so is Carter Dickson.” – The New York Times, 1934 James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight – and which stopped just shortly after Marcia was last seen alive. How did the murderer get in and out of the pavilion without leaving a trace? When Bennett’s uncle, the cantankerous amateur sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale arrives from London to make sense of this impossible crime, the reader is treated to a feast of the author’s trademark twists, beguiling false answers and one of the most ingenious solutions in the history of the mystery genre. Carter Dickson was the pseudonym used by the American author John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) for his novels starring Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr was a prolific writer of highly regarded mysteries, many featuring Merrivale or Dr Gideon Fell. He moved to Britain in 1932 and was admitted to the Detection Club in 1936.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The White Priory Murders”, de Carter Dickson, publicado pela editora Bantam Books, em 2022 e com 272 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Bantam Books
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2022
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0553205722
ISBN13: 9780553205725
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bantam Books costumam transportar o leitor para narrativas densas e envolventes, onde o suspense, o mistério e o drama humano se entrelaçam em tramas que exploram conflitos pessoais e sociais. A experiência de leitura varia entre histórias de investigação policial, espionagem, dramas familiares e aventuras em cenários urbanos ou históricos, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e ameaças concretas. O tom oscila entre o tenso e o introspectivo, com ritmo que pode ser acelerado em cenas de ação ou mais reflexivo em momentos de revelação. O catálogo revela um equilíbrio entre histórias mais narrativas e outras com abordagem mais psicológica e investigativa, mostrando certa diversidade dentro de um universo predominantemente adulto e adulto jovem.
