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The Big Bow Mystery (Paperback)
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The Big Bow Mystery (Paperback)
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List price R231
Loot Price R196
Discovery Miles 1 960
You Save R35 (15%)
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The Big Bow Mystery (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Although
he is frequently recognized as a writer who focused on the plight
of London's Jewish community, Zangwill also wrote works of genre
fiction. Originally serialized in The Star, The Big Bow Mystery is
a satirical take on the locked room mystery that continues to
astound, entertain, and frustrate readers to this day. Having risen
through poverty to become an educator and author, Zangwill
dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the
needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their
suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories of the
Victorian era. On a foggy morning in a working-class neighborhood
on the East End of London, a landlady rises to light the fire and
make a pot of tea. Eventually, Mrs. Drabdump realizes that one of
her tenants has overslept, and goes upstairs to wake him. Finding
his room locked from the inside, she grows concerned and enlists
the help of another tenant. Forcing open the door, they find the
man-a prominent activist for worker's rights-dead in his own bed.
When the coroner's report reveals that the man was neither murdered
or killed by his own hand, an investigation is launched involving
inept policemen, a major politician, and several strange characters
whose peculiarities provide a darkly humorous tint to an otherwise
brutal tale of death and urban decay. With a beautifully designed
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Israel
Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery is a classic of British literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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