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Roman Blood
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Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
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The Franchise Affair
A very nice surprise. Not your typical English mystery made famous by Sayers, Marsh or Christie. Josephine Tey focuses on the characters and their quirks, the plot takes the back seat. Not that the plot is boring, it's not. It's just very linear and doesn't offer any surprises. The reader in not kept in the dark even if you 'see' the book through Robert Blair's eyes, there are no surprises from left field as far as the 'mystery' plot is concerned. The heart of the book and why it gets four stars is the way Tey moves along the characters, even the one that you find a tad too much at the beginning, grow and move on to be better. Robert Blair is one of the most 'boring' and it's not a bad thing, character I've ever encounter that made me want to know how he will handle being thrown into an active life. It's the wonderful journey of a man that finds his life lacking and see his future path being very very predictable, who gets a wake up call out of left field and is drag at first into action but once he is, never gives up. The reader doesn't give up either.
