La specialità della casa e altre storie d'inquietudine
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- 14 ore di lettura
Stanley Ellin Libri
6 ottobre 1916 – 31 luglio 1986
Stanley Ellin è stato un maestro del genere giallo, rinomato per i suoi racconti e romanzi psicologicamente complessi. Il suo lavoro si addentra negli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana, presentando spesso protagonisti alle prese con l'ambiguità morale e destini ineluttabili. L'abile trama di Ellin e la sua atmosfera inquietante creano narrazioni che persistono a lungo dopo l'ultima pagina, consolidando il suo posto come voce significativa nella letteratura di suspense.
After winning the Wimbledon Championship at the age of nineteen, Chris Monte received an offer of fifty thousand dollars to turn professional. His coach, a Frenchman who had himself been a tennis star, turned down the offer flat - next year, he told Chris, he would get one hundred and twenty-five. But next year Chris was out of big-time tennis, as a result of an injury to a leg. When, therefore, nine years later, Elizabeth Jones walks into the tennis shop of Cobia Isle Spa on Miami Beach and offers Chris fifty thousand dollars to marry her, the figure strikes him as an unnerving coincidence. But events far more unnerving are to follow on his acceptance...
Ellin was renowned for crafting the finest mystery stories of his era, as noted by Lawrence Block.
Die Zeitbombe - bk941; Benziger Verlag; Stanley Ellin; Paperback; 1986
Eine Sammlung von Werken u. a. von Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Dickson Carr und Leslie Thomas, illustriert mit Vignetten und umfasst 392 Seiten.
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