Double Negative - Couverture rigide

Carkeet, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0704324962 ISBN 13 : 9780704324961

Editeur : Quartet Books, 1985

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Edgar Award nominated classic-"intelligent, unpredictable...and extraordinarily funny" (San Francisco Chronicle)

Dedicated to the study of toddlers and their development of verbal skills, the Wabash Institute should be staffed by kind, gentle scholars-instead, the center is home to a nest of supremely cranky academics. When one of them is bludgeoned to death, Jeremy Cook-the Institute's premier scholar and the novel's socially clueless hero-becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, Cook resolves to solve the case, even if it means taking time off from his hobby of teaching imaginary words to the Institute's tiny "subjects."

While gleefully skewering academia, Carkeet-a professor of linguistics-also provides a spectacularly ingenious puzzle. "Mystery stories that have a really original solution to the crime are very rare," said the New York Times Book Review, "but Dr. Carkeet has found one."

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Revue de presse

Praise for Double Negative
"The dialogue is crisp and witty, and the plot as unusual and engaging as any from the Golden Age of the classic detective story."-St. Louis Post- Dispatch

"Thoroughly enjoyable. . . A murder mystery told with a very personal kind of light-hearted charm."-New York Times Book Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quartet Books
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0704324962
• ISBN 13: 9780704324961
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible