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For readers who love classic detective fiction, puzzles and ciphers, and the drawing rooms and official circles of early twentieth century Washington.
De qué trata este libro
The Thirteenth Letter is a mystery novel by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, an American writer who set many of her detective stories in Washington, D.C. She wrote in the early twentieth century, when the American detective novel was finding a wide audience. The capital city is her stage, and she knew it well.
In this kind of book you meet a killing, a circle of people who each have something to hide, and a puzzle written in cipher. The pleasure lies in following clues, weighing suspects, and guessing before the answer arrives. Lincoln gives you the drawing rooms, offices and official circles of the city as her setting. Let us begin with that world, because the mystery grows out of it.
En este resumen
- 1A mystery set in the capitalFree
- 2Polite society keeps its secrets
- 3A cipher invites you to think
- 4How to read a mystery of this age
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A mystery set in the capital
Natalie Sumner Lincoln chose Washington as her home ground. The city was full of government clerks, officials, diplomats, and families with long social ties. That crowd made a good pool of suspects, because everyone seemed to know everyone and everyone kept something back.
A setting like this does real work in a detective story. It gives the writer a closed circle of people who meet at dinners, in offices and at public events. Each meeting can hide a motive or drop a clue. A reader learns to watch who stands near whom and who avoids a certain name.
Lincoln wrote several mysteries in this city, and readers of her work expect that sense of place. The streets, houses and official buildings are not just scenery. They shape how people behave and what they are afraid to have discovered. Entering this book means entering that careful, formal world.
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