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Quick Curtain - Alan Melville
Quick Curtain
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780712357890 (0712357890)
Publisher: British Library Crime Classics
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Mystery, Detective, Crime
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
2.0 Quick Curtain
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The only reason I finished this is to claim my bingo square and bingo #4. While the satire of the theatre society, mystery genre and adoring public was interesting, I didn't find this to be an enjoyable read at all. Seriously, Tey picked up a similar approach in A Shilling for Candles and worked ...
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Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it
4.0 A murder is committed -- and hilarity ensues.
text A murder is committed -- and hilarity ensues.
Both Edmund Crispin's Moving Toyshop and Alan Melville's Quick Curtain are mentioned in the "Making Fun of Murder" chapter of Martin Edwards's Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. Both are excellent examples of writers taking something as horrific as murder and turning it right around and into a fa...
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Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it
4.0 A murder is committed -- and hilarity ensues.
text A murder is committed -- and hilarity ensues.
Both Edmund Crispin's Moving Toyshop and Alan Melville's Quick Curtain are mentioned in the "Making Fun of Murder" chapter of Martin Edwards's Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. Both are excellent examples of writers taking something as horrific as murder and turning it right around and into a fa...
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