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SWING

Code EAN13: 9782743615970

Auteur : HOLMES RUPERT

Éditeur : RIVAGES


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Take one multiple-award-winning playwright/musician/screenwriter/producer/novelist, add a publisher willing to back a multimedia novel (this one boasts a CD of original music and a handful of illustrations) and the result is a clever, original mystery that's pure fun to read, listen to, look at and puzzle out. Holmes's Where the Truth Lies (2003) proved him to be an excellent period writer, a skill he demonstrates again with this story of murder at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, the West Coast answer to the New York World's Fair. Jazz musician Ray Sherwood is in San Francisco with his band when he meets a young composer, Gail Prentice, who needs him to orchestrate her award-winning musical composition, Swing, which will play at one of the fair's Treasure Island pavilions. Ray quickly falls for the fetching Grace and is soon deep into orchestrating her avant-garde composition. But after a woman plunges from the sky at the Court of the Moon plaza and lands at Ray's feet, he finds himself involved in a mystery that not only will produce more bodies but also threaten the stability of several governments. Music and mystery go hand in hand; the excellent swing music on the included CD (written and orchestrated by Holmes and referenced in the novel) contains clues to the solution. A tour de force of style and erudition, Holmes's second novel will delight mystery readers of any sort.
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  • EAN
    9782743615970
  • Auteur
  • Éditeur
    RIVAGES
  • Collection
    RIVAGES/NOIR
  • Genre
    Littérature - Polars
  • Date de parution
    08/11/2006
  • Support
    Relié
  • Description du format
    Version Papier
  • Poids
    406 g
  • Hauteur
    235 mm
  • Largeur
    155 mm
  • Épaisseur
    25 mm
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