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La Casa Dei Pini Fruscianti (1910)

by Anna Katharine Green(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Newton Compton Editori

series

Caleb Sweetwater

review 1: Being a classic, this book was written for an audience of a much earlier time. I found it a little hard to understand at first, because of the difference in how they used the English language. It didn't take me long to get used to it, and I began to enjoy the mystery. I think it the same story could have been written in fewer pages, had it not been so wordy, but that's not unusual for books written back then. I found it a little off-putting the way the main character, not guilty of the crime, was willing to take the fall for the woman he thought had committed it. The reason? Because she was so beautiful, it would be a shame for her to suffer such humiliation. As if he would have thrown a plain girl under the bus. I know that's not what the author meant, but I couldn't... more help but get annoyed at it after so many references. Overall, I enjoyed this book. I didn't figure out who the real culprit was until the very end, and I'm usually pretty good at solving the mystery. If you love a good mystery, with courtroom drama, and plenty of twists, you'll enjoy this book.
review 2: I really liked The House of the Whispering Pines, it's a murder mystery kind of along the lines of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie mysteries. It starts out with a man named Elwood Ranelagh (sp?) driving in his carriage by the Whispering Pines a country club that has been closed up for the winter, when he notices smoke coming from the chimney and decides to see why the closed club would have a fire burning. When he enters he sees the object of his affection, Carmel Cumberland, the sister of his fiance` Adelaide Cumberland, quickly descending the stairs and rushing from the country club. Elwood goes upstairs and finds Adelaide covered in couch cushions and apparently strangled. The police show up and Elwood announces his presence and is immediately arrested and suspected of murder. While the story was interesting I felt that the investigation lingered on seemingly meaningless evidence and the story dragged a little on the tedious meandering Elwood's many boring thoughts, but the subsequent investigation and trial got the story moving along nicely and I found myself craving to know who the killer was. less

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