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Beschreibung
She Faded Into Air is a taut late-Golden-Age thriller built around an apparently impossible disappearance, a mystery that White uses less as a mechanical puzzle than as a means of exposing fear, performance, and social masquerade. Its prose is brisk, visual, and suspense-driven, moving with the economy that made White's fiction so adaptable to cinema. Written in the shadow of wartime uncertainty, the novel belongs to the interwar and early-1940s tradition of British crime fiction while pushing it toward psychological unease and domestic Gothic menace. Ethel Lina White, born in Abergavenny in 1876, was one of the most accomplished British suspense novelists of her generation. Before writing full time, she worked in government service, an experience that sharpened her eye for systems, constraints, and the vulnerabilities of respectable life. Best remembered for The Wheel Spins, filmed by Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes, and Some Must Watch, adapted as The Spiral Staircase, White repeatedly explored women caught in conspiracies of disbelief and danger. Readers who admire ingenious mysteries with atmosphere, pace, and psychological acuity will find this novel especially rewarding. It is recommended not only to devotees of classic crime but also to anyone interested in the evolution of modern suspense.
She Faded Into Air is a taut late-Golden-Age thriller built around an apparently impossible disappearance, a mystery that White uses less as a mechanical puzzle than as a means of exposing fear, performance, and social masquerade. Its prose is brisk, visual, and suspense-driven, moving with the economy that made White's fiction so adaptable to cinema. Written in the shadow of wartime uncertainty, the novel belongs to the interwar and early-1940s tradition of British crime fiction while pushing it toward psychological unease and domestic Gothic menace. Ethel Lina White, born in Abergavenny in 1876, was one of the most accomplished British suspense novelists of her generation. Before writing full time, she worked in government service, an experience that sharpened her eye for systems, constraints, and the vulnerabilities of respectable life. Best remembered for The Wheel Spins, filmed by Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes, and Some Must Watch, adapted as The Spiral Staircase, White repeatedly explored women caught in conspiracies of disbelief and danger. Readers who admire ingenious mysteries with atmosphere, pace, and psychological acuity will find this novel especially rewarding. It is recommended not only to devotees of classic crime but also to anyone interested in the evolution of modern suspense.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028357757
ISBN-10: 802835775X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: White, Ethel Lina
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Ethel Lina White
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2023
Gewicht: 0,187 kg
Artikel-ID: 128620029