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What Galsworthy did for Edwardian England, Wharton did for turn-of-the-century New York, and she did it to perfection in The House of Mirth. Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully...
"In the Acknowledgements, the author states "I was under a lot of pressure to finish the book and to adapt it for TV, almost simultaneously". Unfortunately, this pressure shows up in the writing and plot of this book-within-a-book mystery. It is sl..."
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Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz--another tribute to the golden age of Agatha Christie featuring detective Atticus Pund and editor Susan Ryland, stars of the New York Times...
