The Rynox Mystery
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The Rynox Mystery by Philip Macdonald
A classic Golden Age crime novel, and the first time Philip MacDonald wrote a crime novel without a detective.‘A book that I — against my better judgement, nature, and previous standards — unabashedly loved with every fibre of my being… A beautiful and very affordable edition’TheInvisibleEvent.com
'Philip MacDonald has again supplied his expectant public with an excellent detective story. It is unusual both in its form and in its plot, written more in the style of a Scotland Yard document than in the form of a novel. There is one immense surprise for the reader, and several minor surprises, and it is improbable that anyone will be able to solve its mystery before Mr MacDonald chooses to disclose it.' SPECTATOR
'MacDonald, master of the mystery story rulebook, broke most of those rules in his unconventional 1930 novel The Rynox Murder. Long before the rise of the postmodern novel, MacDonald anticipated many of its techniques. He wreaks havoc with conventional narrative structure—opening the book with its epilogue and closing his novel with an account of the story’s beginnings. He reveals a postmodern zeal for texts within the text, devoting a substantial portion of his story to an array of disparate documents—diary entries, business correspondence, personal letters, police reports, memoranda, etc.—which impart a sense of discontinuity and authorial absence to a novel.' PostmodernMystery.com
British author Philip MacDonald wrote more than 30 accomplished crime novels, many of them after moving to Hollywood in 1931, where he also wrote and produced more than 100 scripts for the silver screen. His first solo novel, The Rasp (1924) introduced Colonel Anthony Gethryn, a gentleman detective who went on to appear in a dozen novels, including The Noose, The Maze and finally The List of Adrian Messenger in 1959.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780008248994 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008248990 |
| Title | The Rynox Mystery |
| Author | Philip Macdonald |
| Series | Detective Club Crime Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2017-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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