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A Mystery
Written by Michael Dibdin
Fiction - Mystery & Detective |
Vintage | Trade Paperback |
January 1995 | $
11.95 |
978-0-679-75310-0 (0-679-75310-9)
 
ABOUT THIS BOOK
One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. Mrs. Hargreave III is whiling away her time at patience. And Miss Rosemary Travis and her friend, Dorothy, are wondering which of their housemates will be the next to die.
For even as Michael Dibdin's elderly sleuths debate clues and motives, it becomes clear that Eventide Lodge is not a genteel country inn but a place of ghastly cruelties and humiliations. A place where the logic of murder is . . .almost comforting. At once affectionate homage and audacious satire, The Dying of the Light will delight any aficionado of Patricia Highsmith, Peter Dickinson, or Ruth Rendell.
PRAISE
"Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader. He writes the unmentionable calmly and with devastating effect."
—Ruth Rendell
"Horribly, monstrously funny . . . a merry and maddening jeu d'esprit."
—The Independent on Sunday
"An elegant novel."
—Boston Globe
"As appealing as it is inventive."
—The Sunday Times
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking, which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.
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