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The Strange Death of a Romantic (Paperback)
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The Strange Death of a Romantic (Paperback)
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Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
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The poet Shelley wasn't murdered. This book tells you whodunit. A
group of glamorous English socialites spend the summer of 1930
holidaying on the Italian Riviera where the poet Shelley died in a
sailing accident in 1822. To pass the time, they tell amusing
stories, much as Shelley, Byron and their friends had done a
century earlier. For their theme they choose the death of Shelley
and the stories progress towards a solution to the "murder
mystery." Yet is that truly what the stories are about? Or, despite
their witty surface, are they a code for dark and dangerous secrets
hidden behind an urbane facade? Guy Parrot, a naive young doctor,
finds himself falling in love with the beautiful and enigmatic
Julia, the truth of whose past flickers between the lines of the
stories, tantalising both Guy and the Reader. Guy discovers that
truth, and its terrible reality leads to two murders and the
destruction of his happiness and sanity. In 1945, in the aftermath
of war, Guy returns to Italy with the army and is given an
opportunity to re-examine the events of fifteen years before. This
time will he understand what happened and finally redeem himself?
The Strange Death of a Romantic offers the Reader romance, comedy,
suspense, and an intriguing solution to a historical Whodunit - but
without the inconvenience of a crime."
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