Mystery

Zusatztext “A dark! labyrinthian tale of murder and family relationships. . . . Mesmerizing.” — Chicago Sun-Times “Sensational. . . . A terrific page-turner! superbly plotted! unforgettable characters.” — Kansas City Star “Intriguing! immensely readable. . . . Engages the mind.” — Washington Post Book World   “The near perfect mystery. . . . Has everything a classic whodunit should. . . . Full of intricate! engrossing! flesh-and-blood suspects and heroes. . . . Unexpected curves and potholes. . . . The title says it all.” — Milwaukee Sentinel   “Murder! mayhem! mystery. . . . A complex and satisfying tale. . . . Compelling characters. . . . A pulse-pounding climax.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer   “A tightly woven-tale! crisply rendered! populated with well-drawn characters.” — San Francisco Chronicle   “Marvelous. . . . Enormously satisfying. . . . Unashamedly designed to fascinate.” — Sacramento Bee   “The best of Peter Straub’s writing.” — Houston Chronicle   “The characters are outstanding. . . . They are the story! enshrouded by a nightmare that never lifts. Peter Straub takes bold risks and he succeeds.” — San Jose Mercury News   “Enomously entertaining and scary. . . . Rich! complex! dark! and tough to put down.” — New York Daily News Informationen zum Autor Peter Straub Klappentext MYSTERY. Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn't. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.1 One June day in the mid-fifties Tom Pasmore, a ten-year-old boy with skin as golden as if he had been born with a good fourth-day suntan, jumped down from a milk cart and found himself in a part of Mill Walk he had never seen before. A sense of urgency, of impendingness, had awakened him with the screams that came from his mother's bedroom and clung to him during the whole anxious, jittery day, and when he waved his thanks to the driver, this feeling intensified like a bright light directed into his eyes. He thought of hopping back on the milk cart, but it was already jingling away down Calle Burleigh. Tom squinted into the bright dusty haze through which passed a steady double stream of bicycles, horse carts, and automobiles. It was late afternoon, and the light had a molten, faintly reddish cast that suddenly reminded him of panels from comic books: fires and explosions and men falling through the air. In the next moment this busy scene seemed to suppress beneath it another, more essential scene, every particle of which overflowed with an intense, unbearable beauty. It was as if great engines had kicked into life beneath the surface of what he could see. For a moment Tom could not move. Nature itself seemed to have awakened, overflowing with being. Tom stood transfixed in the heavy, slanting reddish light and the dust rising from the roadway. He was used to the quieter, narrower streets of the island's far east end, and his glimpse of a mysterious glory might have been no more than a product of the change from Eastern Shore Road. What he was looking at was another world, one he had never seen before. He had no exact idea of how to get back to the far east end and the great houses of Eastern Shore Road, and less idea of why he was searching for a certain address. A bicycle bell gave a rasping cry like the chirp of a cricket, a horse's ironclad hoof struck the packed dirt of Calle Burleigh, and all the sounds of the wide avenue reached To...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Straub
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2010
• EAN: 9780307472229
• ISBN: 978-0-307-47222-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 205 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Blue Rose Trilogy; Blue Rose Trilogy
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense