And Then there was No One

Resumen del libro

Gustav Slavorigin, Booker Prize-winning novelist and notorious controversialist, is murdered in the picturesque Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival.

Since the price of a hundred million dollars has been placed on his head by an ultra-reactionary Texan billionaire, none of the festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion - save perhaps Evadne Mount, the formidable amateur sleuth who featured prominently in Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd and A Mysterious Affair of Style. Yet neither of those two cases prepared her for the jaw-dropping twists and turns of this new investigation, climaxing, appropriately enough, at Meiringen's principal tourist attraction, the Reichenbach Falls.

As the reader gradually discovers, however, And Then There Was No One is much more than the third panel of a triptych of detective stories. It's a novel like no other, a hall of mirrors, a hole-in-one, a tour de force of stylistic brio and narrative ingenuity, a conjuring act that ends with the conjuror, or author, actually sawing himself in half.