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THE D. CASE : The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood Soft cover - 1993
by Dickens, Charles; Fruttero, Carlo; Lucentini, Franco; (Translated from the Italian By Gregory DFowling)
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World-famous sleuths--Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and others--deliberate on Charles Dickens' last and never completed novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. As each chapter is studied, the mystery grows more mysterious.
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- Title THE D. CASE : The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Author Dickens, Charles; Fruttero, Carlo; Lucentini, Franco; (Translated from the Italian By Gregory DFowling)
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition First Edition, First Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvest Books/Harcourt, Orlando, FL
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # 012865
- ISBN 9780156236003 / 0156236001
- Weight 1.93 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 8.92 x 6.08 x 1.5 in (22.66 x 15.44 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Rome (Italy)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91029169
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The authors combine the text of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, literary scholarship, the detective genre, and their knowledge of Rome to produce a hilarious, offbeat satire. Translated by Gregory Dowling. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
First line
THE RUIN LIES THERE IN THE RAIN, a great fossilized eyesocket staring emptily at nothing, like a long-silenced witness; it is now no more than a traffic-island beset on all sides by raging motor vehicles.