The Oxford Murders (CD-Audio)

from shireling

This was a bit of a disappointment to me. I had read some favourable reviews, but the chacters didn't appeal to me, the math was way above my head (Wittgenstein, Godel's Theorem anyone?) and the romance (such as it was) felt oddly flat. Actually I preferred the movie, but that must have been due ...

from marient

A whodonit featuring an Argentine grad student who finds his elderly landlady murdered in the parlor of her Oxford home. His mentor, the renowned Oxford logician Arthur Seldon receives an anonymous note bearing a circle and the words 'first of a series'. It would appear that someone is using deat...

from debavp

Someone mentioned the author on Library Thing and so off I went in search of a copy thinking it would be along the lines of The Da Vinci Code, but alas not. At less than two hundred pages, it was anemic compared to Brown's work. But for a small book, and one that was translated to boot, it was no...

from kewing

The mystery is rather weak and contrived, the characters thin and cliched. What I did enjoy somewhat was the cultural lack of comprehension of a foreign student in a strange land.

from thornton37814

An Argentinian mathematics graduate student arrives in Oxford only to have his landlady murdered a short time later. There is a note left for Arthur Seldom, a renowned logic and mathematical expert who authored a book with a chapter on serial killers, indicating that the murder is the first in a ...