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Résumé de Une étrange disparition
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For readers who love early detective fiction, Victorian atmosphere and puzzles solved through observation, with hidden identities, private secrets and reputations at stake.
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A Strange Disappearance is a detective novel by Anna Katharine Green, the American writer who helped shape the crime story in the 1870s and 1880s. It came out in 1880, soon after her first success, and it again follows the New York police detective Ebenezer Gryce.
The case begins with a woman who is gone, and with a city that seems to have swallowed her. Behind her absence lie private secrets and a past that someone wants kept hidden. You get a puzzle of the old kind, with clues and doubts, set in a Victorian New York of fine houses and careful manners. Let us start with the world in which the mystery takes place.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A missing woman in Victorian New YorkFree
- 2Gryce works by patience and observation
- 3Secrets and hidden identity drive the plot
- 4How Green builds suspense on the page
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A missing woman in Victorian New York
The story is built on one disturbing fact. A woman has vanished, and the people around her cannot or will not explain how. In a crowded city of the 1880 period, that is a hard thing to do without help, and the novel makes the reader ask who helped and why.
Green sets her mystery among respectable people. Houses, families, reputations and social rules matter as much as streets and rooms. A scandal could ruin a household, so many characters have a reason to hold their tongues. That pressure of silence drives the plot more than any chase does.
For a modern listener this setting is part of the pleasure. You see how a city looked to the Victorian middle class, with its calling cards, its servants and its fear of gossip. The disappearance is a crime against a person, but it is also a crack in a polished surface, and the book keeps pressing on that crack.
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Questions about Une étrange disparition
What is A Strange Disappearance about?
It is a Victorian detective novel about a woman who vanishes in New York. Detective Ebenezer Gryce investigates, and the case leads into family secrets, a hidden identity and the fear of scandal among respectable people.
Who wrote A Strange Disappearance and when?
Anna Katharine Green wrote it, and it was published in 1880. It followed her first success, The Leavenworth Case, and it again features the police detective Ebenezer Gryce, who works alongside a younger detective known as Q.
Is A Strange Disappearance part of a series?
Yes, it is one of the novels featuring Ebenezer Gryce, who first appears in The Leavenworth Case. Each book tells its own case, so you can read this one without knowing the others.
Is A Strange Disappearance a true story?
No, it is fiction. Green invented the case, though she set it in a believable Victorian New York and drew on her knowledge of law and police work, which gave her plots a realistic feel.
Is A Strange Disappearance hard to read?
The plot is clear and built on questions and clues, so readers of classic mysteries should follow it without trouble.