Full name: The Dying of the Light: A Mystery

Author: Michael Dibdin Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679753100 0679753109

One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. Mrs. Hargreave III is whiling away her time at patience. And Miss Rosemary Travis and her friend, Dorothy, are wondering which of their housemates will be the next to die.For even as Michael Dibdin's elderly sleuths debate clues and motives, it becomes clear that Eventide Lodge is not a genteel country inn but a place of ghastly cruelties and humiliations. A place where the logic of murder is . . .almost comforting. At once affectionate homage and audacious satire, The Dying of the Light will delight any aficionado of Patricia Highsmith, Peter Dickinson, or Ruth Rendell. Similar books: Thanksgiving by Michael Dibdin The Tryst by Michael Dibdin Oxford Blood by Antonia Fraser To Fear a Painted Devil by Ruth Rendell Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell Dangerous Davies: Last Detective by Leslie Thomas The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell Skeleton-in-Waiting by Peter Dickinson The Debt Collector by Lynn Hightower The Forgotten by Faye Kellerman The Bridesmaid by Ruth Rendell Hit List by Lawrence Block One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell Death of a Doll by Hilda Lawrence The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult