The Dying of the Light (Paperback)

from michaelm42071

Here's an unusual mystery: Michael Dibdin's The Dying of the Light , published in 1993 and reissued in paperback in 1995. The book opens at tea time, in the lounge of what appears to be an English nursing home, where the old folks' names sound as if they came out of a Clue game or an Agatha Chris...

from Rascalstar

Brilliant book with an unusual story and also one that tugs at the heart, contains mysteries, and is a thoughtful statement on those living in homes for the elderly and what they may endure silently. And how they deal with it. Fascinating. If you like offbeat literary stories, you might like this...

from Stahl-Ricco

A wonderful surprise! Quick read too! To quote the back, "gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel." Indeed it does! An old folks home, run by an abusive brother and sister team, is slowly losing residents to death. Is it natural, or is it murder? Two i...

from Eurydice

This is a brilliant, finely finished little morsel of a book: original, in all its homage, decadent with grimness and quiet horror, studded with humor and pathos, its surface glittering polished with irony and perfect, measured prose. The Dying of the Light is not a 'conventional' mystery, though...

from datrappert

Clever and engaging once you get past the disorientation of the first few pages, but very minor overall - a perfectly good light entertainment. Some occasional black humor - but more of a tale of misdirection than anything else. Hard to say based on this if I would seek out another Dibdin book or...