Non è un mestiere per Uomini I Primi Tre Casi di Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green

Non è un mestiere per Uomini I Primi Tre Casi di Violet Strange

by Anna Katharine Green is a delightful reading; this book published by Marsilio will be a great reading in particular if you are a fan of Agatha Christie. These three short stories, will introduce to you in fact a character pretty singular and at the same time functional: the one of a beautiful young girl of the New York's upper class in love for crime and in grande of being helpful at the police men when necessary. She is apparently just an innocuous girl in grade of capturing that imperceptible shades not discovered, seen, or noticed by the police men.

In these three stories, you will discover not just a great intensity, but also in a wonderful and researched phrose that I appreciated a lot.

These books are born with the desire of sharing "crime" notions in a logical modality with the reader, strong of the fact that criminality and crime has always a sense, and it is never senseless.

Not only: sorting out a thief, a murder is like to "building" piece after piece a puzzle combined with a stroke of luck of course and with a good investigative nose. Pity that these stories are so short. 

Violet is in part a capricious intelligent, sly girl; someone who wouldn't want to investigate at all any kind of crime, but tempted by her same nature and in part forced by her friends at the police office. They know her potentialities; again the so-called intruder become crucial for sorting out a crime that differently wouldn't maybe know the responsible. We meet often this scheme: Agatha Christie created Miss Marple the character of a stranger, an intruder, someone apparently peaceful but that later will be in grade of sorting out terrible murders.

The book is translated in italian leaving at the readers the pleasure of reading the english version as well.

Highly recommended.

I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of this book. 

Anna Maria Polidori