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Woman in Red

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Das Auswärtige Amt hat Charles Llewellyn auf alle möglichen Eventualitäten seines Berufs vorbereitet. Detektivspielen gehörte jedoch nicht dazu...
Charles Llewellyn vom britischen Konsulat in Alicante soll der Familie Partridge gegen die spanische Polizei Der Sohn war - zu einer Straftat verführt - auf dem Transport ins Gefängnis bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben gekommen. Daraufhin hat der Vater dem Mann Rache geschworen, der seinen Sohn auf die schiefe Bahn gebracht hat.
Nun liegt dieser Mensch zerschmettert auf der Straße, genau unter dem Penthouse der Familie Partridge, und seine Uhr ist zu einem Zeitpunkt stehen geblieben, als Vater Partridge allein in der Wohnung war. Infolgedessen wird er verhaftet. Da taucht plötzlich seine Schwiegertochter auf und verteidigt glühend seine Unschuld. Und der Konsulatsbeamte Llewellyn ist doch eigentlich fürs Detektivspielen gar nicht ausgebildet...

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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Paula Gosling

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Paula Gosling is a US born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer and published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has also received both the Gold Dagger for Monkey Puzzle in 1985. She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.

Her novel A Running Duck, written in 1974 (also published as Fair Game), has been adapted twice into films, once as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle - Cobra and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford entitled Fair Game.

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I really enjoyed this book. It started out a bit slow, but things picked up as the circle of friends, and suspects, increased. There were some very interesting plot twists towards the end of the book, and I was constantly changing my mind about "who done it." The main characters were well written, as well, in my opinion, and had a wonderful depth about them.
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