The Sunday Philosphy Club av Alexander McCall Smith
| Titel: The Sunday Philosphy Club Författare: Alexander McCall Smith ISBN: 9780349118680 Handling: Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her tra ining to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Ap plied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sex ual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral c ompasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Ins tinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in fron t of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushe d. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and p neumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stem s from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an age nt of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well. Antal sidor: 304 Inkommen: 2007-03-03 Utläst: Betyg: Egen kommentar: |  |
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