David Magarshack

Big Ben Strikes Eleven (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 654 Min.
Sprecher: Telfer, John

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Produktbeschreibung

The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidentally on a sultry Friday evening towards the end of June. The industrial and financial tycoon, and former stalwart of the British Cabinet, was shot in the head and left in the quiet Vale of Health. Nearby, a rejected portrait of Sir Robert is found riddled with bullets in the studio of the now missing artist Matt Caldwell. As it hurtles towards its feverish denouement under the bells of the capital's famous clock, this closely observed and stylish study of character and motive transports the reader from the Stock Exchange to Scotland Yard. It asks the question of what it means to be crooked and how immense power corrupts. First published in 1934, this novel is now extremely rare, and is long overdue its rediscovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Soundings
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399165877
• Artikelnr.: 69140135

Autorenporträt

David Magarshack (1899-1977) was an author and translator, best-known for his translations of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy and Chekhov in the 1950s. Born in Riga, in present-day Latvia, Magarshack came to Britain to study at University College London, was naturalised as a British citizen in 1931 and wrote three crime novels in the 1930s.