Ebook {Epub PDF} And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair

Faber, pp. , £. And Then There Was No One, by Gilbert Adair. And Then There Was No One is a metaphysical murder mystery, a deconstructionist detective story, a post-modern puzzle — all of. Gilbert Adair, in the third of his Evadne Mount novels, changes tack and disposes with the cosy Christie model subverted successfully in The Act Of Roger Murgatroyd and less so in A Mysterious Affair Of Style, by opting to throw himself into the mix and tell the story of And Then There Was No One () as a fictional memoir. Set in , Adair has found himself at a literary festival in a Swiss town by the . Adair’s complicated and multilayered love-hatred for the U.S.—reflected in the attitudes of Gustav Stavorigin, the prizewinning Bulgarian-born English novelist, villain, and murder victim of And Then There Was No One, who is discovered dead at a Swiss-German Sherlock Holmes Festival held in , where he appears as the mystery guest—can sometimes lead him into far-fetched conceits, such as .

Adair, Gilbert - 'And Then There Was No One' Hardback: pages (Dec. ) Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: A controversial author is the surprise mystery guest at a Sherlock Holmes convention near the Reichenbach Falls; he appears at a party long enough to establish that everyone hates him before being found with an arrow in his chest in the local Holmes museum. Gilbert Adair (29 December - 8 December ) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island () and The Dreamers (). Gilbert Adair, in the third of his Evadne Mount novels, changes tack and disposes with the cosy Christie model subverted successfully in The Act Of Roger Murgatroyd and less so in A Mysterious Affair Of Style, by opting to throw himself into the mix and tell the story of And Then There Was No One () as a fictional memoir.

Adair’s complicated and multilayered love-hatred for the U.S.—reflected in the attitudes of Gustav Stavorigin, the prizewinning Bulgarian-born English novelist, villain, and murder victim of And Then There Was No One, who is discovered dead at a Swiss-German Sherlock Holmes Festival held in , where he appears as the mystery guest—can sometimes lead him into far-fetched conceits, such as the one here involving an alleged fatwa placed by a rightwing Texas millionaire on Stavorigin. Gilbert Adair, arch-postmodernist, has written two Agatha Christie pastiches, the second of which I reviewed here last year. That book disappointed me a little, but I was nonetheless unreasonably excited when I got my hands on the third book in the Evadne Mount trilogy, And Then There Was No One. It may be the dramatic cover image, the wittily meticulous titular take on Christie’s most famous book, the amusing subtitle, or the possibility of even more reflexive authorial trickery than. And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair. Nicholas Lezard on Evadne Mount's latest outing. Nicholas Lezard. Fri 4 Jun EDT. J oy. Are you familiar with Evadne Mount, the murder-mystery.