- Authors, Crimes against, Fiction
The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Gilbert Adair
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 258
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Incorporated, Faber and Faber, Faber
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571238811
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