martedì 28 gennaio 2014

As The Inspector Said and Other Stories by John Escott

 AUTHORS: G.K. Chesterton, Edmund Crispin, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Richard Marsh, John Escott
SUBGENRE : Thriller
SETTING : England in XX Century
CHARACTERS: (As the Inspector Said ... ) Sonia and Robert French,Charles Darrel,(The Man Who Cut Off My Hair ) Judith Lee,Mr Colgate,Mrs Dickson,Burglars,(The Railway Crossing) Dunstan Thwaite,Hilda Lorraine,John Dunn,Jane,(The Blue Cross) Valentin,Flambeau,Father Brown, (Cash on Delivery) Max Linster,Jacob Elliston,Mrs Elliston,Josephine Demessieux.
NARRATOR: 3rd person
POINT OF VIEW: Narrator's
PLOT: As the Inspector Said (Cyril Hare) Sonia felt in love with Charles and she wanted to kill her husband Robert helped by Charles dressed as a theif,but they failed because Robert knew their affair and he murdered Charles before he did it to him.
The Man Who Cut Off My Hair (Richard Marsh) Judith Lee was deaf but she was an excellent Lip Reader. Once she was almost killed by a criminal, but he cut his long hair. One day she read two man's lips and saw that they were going to rob her neighbor. One day she went for a walk and saw that two men were at their neighbor's house. They were stealing her neighbor's silver, and the criminals saw Lee. They catch her and cut her long hair. It was very valuable to her, and she was very angry. She decided to catch the theives with the police and the detective, and with her lip reading skills, she caught the criminals.
The Railway Crossing ( Freeman Wills Crofts) Thwaite decided to kill John Dunn. Some years ago Thwaite fell in love with a woman, and she liked expensive things. But Thwaite had not much money and he took thousand pounds from the company. His friend John Dunn noticed that and began to offer him money. So he returned money to the company more than  a thousand pounds and John took money every year. And the money John offered got much more expensive. So Thwaite decided to kill John Dunn. He prepared a sleeping powder and went to the railway station and decided to kill him when nobody was looking at the railway station. But he forgot his keys and came back leaving John at the Railway station. So he decided to tell the police about him. But John Dunn was dead, and the police inspected Thwaite.
 The Blue Cross (G.K. Chesterton) Father Brown receives a mysterious letter suggesting that the church's priceless holy relic, the Blue Cross, will be stolen. In the church itself, he finds a piece of paper with the letter F, left there by the famous thief Flambeau, gone across Europe for the theft of priceless artifacts. Bishop Talbot is soon on the scene and makes arrangements to have the cross transported by the police to a safe location. Father Brown decides it would be safer in his possession. He is out not only out to identify the thief but also to save his soul
 Cash on Delivery (Edmund Crispin) Max Linster is a professional killer and thief that had been called from Jacob Ellison to kill his wife in change of money and jewels. So Max meets Jacob in his wife and  he makes the killer sure of his reward while his wife is downstairs with her brother and her servants Johsephine. Then Joshephine go upstairs in Mrs Ellison bedroom for doing her work,but when she goes in, Linster kill the pretty servants by her back and put her dead body under the bed. After getting paid Max Linster speaks to Mr Ellison and make him doubtful abut who he killed,but it's to late for knowing the truth because Linster just went out the window.

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