Disappointed. That's my review in one word. This book shadowed me for a while. I love Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, and this seemed to pop up in similar company. The story is as follows: This mystery is the story of Coros, a European book expert who is on a two fold mission - to verify the authen...
A page-turner set in the seamier part of the book trade. I enjoyed this very much, for both of the threads (a Three Musketeers manuscript that seems somehow to be generating characters from that novel(!), and a bibliographical mystery surrounding a volume purporting to allow the summoning of the dev...
This novel has more red herrings than a communist fish market.But that's OK because I like novels that throws you off and keeps you guessing. Even if some of the herrings are obvious, there are always a few that swim by when you are not expecting them. The Oxford Murders is a nifty mystery about tw...
I would have never wondered that a movie from Hollywood could have been better than a novel by a writer from Argentina. Which is like saying that I prefer a McDonald's plastic-like burger to a succulent meaty asado. But, well, there's always a first time.For the big screen version of "The Oxford Mur...
the protagonist Corso is a lot of fun. a shady, efficient, highly intelligent, deeply contemptuous, globe-trotting purveyor of literature from antiquity - the gumshoe transformed into book detective. he is perhaps the most enjoyable part of the novel and it is a pleasure (although a familiar one) to...
I like watching Inspector Morse and Inspector Lewis. (Okay, for Inspector Lewis it's because I like Hathaway, but still). I liked Numbers for a bit.I didn't like this book.Sometimes I don't mind when you can figure out the solution by page 30. The Blood Doctor is somewhat like that but it is stil...
Mystery, Murders, Motivations and Mathematics.This books has it all.The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez is not just a fascinating murder mystery but also a puzzle that captures the reader and keeps you feverishly turning pages until the end. The story is told from the perspective of an Argentin...
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