The Sunday Philosophy Club

by Alexander McCall Smith | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0349118698 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingPlum-crazywing of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 5/17/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, May 17, 2009
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh.

Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed....

With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well.




Journal Entry 2 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, May 17, 2009
This is the first time I've read this author but I can't say I was overly impressed.

The storyline is quite simplistic, Isabel sees a man fall to his death while at a concert & decides to investigate further when the verdict is accidental death - she thinks otherwise.

The style of this remined me very much of Hazel Holt's Sheila Mallory series...right down to the end which I felt was a bit of a cop out!
And while I appreciate that Isabel is a philosopher I found some of the philosophising unneccessary (& hard going!) & found myself skimming those bits!

On the whole I'm not sorry I read it but can't see what all the fuss is about with this author.

This copy is an ex-library book with a different cover to the one shown.

Journal Entry 3 by wingPlum-crazywing at Bench on Cliffside in Port Patrick, Scotland United Kingdom on Monday, September 14, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (9/14/2009 UTC) at Bench on Cliffside in Port Patrick, Scotland United Kingdom

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Released as part of the 2009 ULTIMATE CHALLENGE -themed "SOLAR SYSTEM" release for September (SUNday)

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