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Seller Inventory # 6545-9780701148430. An Enigma by the Sea. Carlo Fruttero,Franco Lucentini,Gregory Dowling. Published by Chatto & Windus 27/03/1994 (1994) From: AwesomeBooks (Wallingford, United Kingdom) About this Item: Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9780701148430. THE MYSTERY THAT DICKENS DIDN`T LIVE TO SOLVE. ''Completeness Is All: An International Forum on the Completion of Unfinished or Fragmentary Works in Music and Literature,'' is about to convene at a posh hotel. The aim of the conference is to solve by detective work, computers and other electronic gadgetry the riddle of certain unfinished masterpieces and thereby recuperate them for posterity as well as for the financial gain of the Japanese technocrats sponsoring the meeting. Among the works, which include Puccini`s ''Turandot,'' Poe`s ''Narrative of Arthur GordonPym'' and Schubert`s Symphony No. 8, is Charles Dickens` last unfinished novel ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood.'' On the committee to tackle the Dickens novel are a host of noteworthy but notably fictitious detectives of this century and the last, among them the meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, the cryptic Sherlock Holmes and the hard-drinking American gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. But how can this be, you ask-fictitious characters of a bygone era alive today and meeting at a contemporary Roman hotel? Well, anything goes in the frolicsome world of postmodern detective fiction, known for its borrowed characters, its blend of fantasy and history, and its impudent disregard for the norms of conventional storytelling. The first chapters are engaging enough and full of surprises. Who would expect that we ''Dear Readers'' would be taken into the narrator`s confidence and invited to tag along at the ''Drood work group'' meetings? Who would have thought that we would be in on all the behind-the- scenes gossip, petty jealousies, clandestine love affairs and serious sleuthing going on within their circle? But now the real work begins. Sandwiched between the chapters devoted to detective work, to conference cocktails parties and sightseeing tours to the Roman Forum are the chapters of the real Dickens novel itself. And why not? If the detectives are studying a chapter or two of Dickens each day, and if we the readers are privy to the inquiry in progress, it only stands to reason that we too should read Dickens with them and share the responsibility for the investigation. In alternating chapters, therefore, we first read something of Poirot and his colleagues and then of Drood, the Dickens hero, then again more about Poirot and then more about Dickens. In the Dickens novel Drood has vanished, the victim of foul play perhaps. In the novel about the novel the female Italian conference leader has disappeared with the president of the Dickens society, a victim of passion perhaps. Many clues are dropped to help solve both mysteries-too many. Time after time false speculation lures the reader down the primrose path to a big breakthrough only to end in disappointment. As if things are not confusing enough, in the last pages of the book a third plot and several suppositions are introduced involving Dickens himself and his sudden, untimely death. In the end, however, there will be no answers for the reader, no way out of this tangled web of evidence and multiple plots-only conjecture. ''The D. Case'' is not a real mystery but a tease, a fun-loving parody of the conventional detective story. Its entertainment value rests not in discovering the end to Dickens` novel but in playfully puzzling over it with our detective colleagues in the book. The parts not written by Dickens were written collaboratively by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, two writers who have, in the past in their native Italy, enjoyed a measure of fame for their supersleuthing. Talented as the two author-detectives may be at keeping ahead of their readers, they are less talented at keeping up with Dickens. ''The D. Case'' is easily forgotten, while the original unfinished Dickens novel which it contains remains a haunting and memorable mystery. ISBN 13: 9780156236003. The D. Case: Or The Truth About The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. Dickens, Charles ; Fruttero, Carlo ; Lucentini, Franco. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. The authors combine the text of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, literary scholarship, the detective genre, and their knowledge of Rome to produce a hilarious, offbeat satire. Translated by Gregory Dowling. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens' mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens' novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form―a popular format for fiction at the time―and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the public looking forward to the next installm. Carlo Fruttero (born 19 September 1926 in Turin) is an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels. The duo was also editor of the science fiction series Urania from the 1960s to the 1980s. Franco Lucentini (December 24, 1920 - August 5, 2002) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. Born in Rome on 24 December 1920 to Emma Marzi and Venanzio Lucentini, a miller from Marche and later the owner of a bakery in Rome. While studying Philosophy at the University of Rome, Lucentini was one of the organizers of a practical joke against the fascist regime: on 5 May 1941 he and a friend distributed among other students paper streamers. When unrolled during a public meeting, they revealed writings such as "Down with the war!", "Down with Hitler!" and "Long live freedom!". Lucentini was arrested and spent two months in prison. Lucentini graduated in February 1943. Called to arms in 1943, he was refused the admission to the training to become an officer. After the Armistice, the Allied armed forces put to use his writing skills as a junior editor for the "United Nations News" press agency in Naples. After the war, Lucentini worked in Rome for ANSA news agency; later, associated with ONA news agency, he went to Prague and Vienna. The atmosphere of postwar Vienna gave him the inspiration for the novella I compagni sconosciuti . After a brief time again in Rome, in 1949 he left for Paris where he was employed in several jobs (deliveryman, teacher, masseur). While in Paris, he first met the two most important people in his life: Simone Benne Darses, 12 years older than him, who was to become his lifetime wife; and, in 1952, Carlo Fruttero, with whom a life-long literary collaboration began in 1957, when Lucentini moved to Turin, where both of them worked for Einaudi publishing house. Lucentini frequently traveled to Paris in scouting assignments for Einaudi looking for new authors and titles to bring to Italy. He discovered, amongst other's, Jorge Luis Borges and was responsible for the translation from the original Spanish versions to Italian. Lucentini also translated several foreign books for Einaudi from many different languages including Chinesse and Japanese. As a very successful and appreciated team, Fruttero & Lucentini wrote books and worked in publishing, directing book series and magazines ( Il Mago , Urania ), and editing fiction anthologies, for Einaudi publishing house and, since 1961, for Mondadori. In 1972 Lucentini and Fruttero began writing for Turin-based newspaper La Stampa (then directed by Alberto Ronchey), writing the column "L'Agenda di F.