Reading “Death in Arcadia”
24 August 2006
A criminal case in letters from the late eighteenth century
newly edited by Jens Luckwaldt
ISBN 3-8334-5028-2, 360 pages, paperback
An illustrious band of summer guests has gathered at Schloss Thorau. While the small, refined company still passes the time with country outings, séances and card games, the machinery of an intrigue is already running relentlessly in secret. With a fatal outcome: a corpse lies in the middle of the magnificent park. Can the criminal expert, brought specially from the capital, identify the perpetrator?
‘A true criminal case in letters’ from the late eighteenth century, told solely through the records of its protagonists. People lie, people slander, and yet in the end the documents reveal the truth – the key to a cruel secret...
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