Born in East Anglia, he attended university at Cambridge before getting an MA in library sciences from University College London. No se ha podido añadir el producto a la lista de deseos.
He has written several other thrillAndrew Taylor (b. Won the Crime Writers Association of England's best first crime novel for 1982.
Police minuscule #1. Por favor, inténtalo de nuevo más tarde. A fun literary mystery.Very plodding and poor plot development. book in finecondition,as the first book it creates believable central characters who develop creditably through the following books. I got thrown by the story veering off the path of a regular mystery and becoming a book in which the protagonist, history postgrad William Dougal, is more of a committer of crimes than a solver of them. (Cookies must be enabled in your browser.) 29/07/2012 a las 15:30 . Vuelva a intentarloLo sentimos, no hemos podido registrar tu voto. Vuelva a intentarloLo sentimos, no hemos podido registrar tu voto. Complétée de tous les accents, mais sans La minuscule caroline fut créée par Alcuin, maître de l'Académie palatine, entre 782 et 796, conformément à la volonté de Charlemagne d'uniformiser les écritures régionales et de remplacer l'écriture mérovingienne par une écriture qui serait facile à déchiffrer et à rédiger à travers tout son Empire. Even the author admits that he (the main character that is!)
He lives on the borders of England and Wales.
So when our "hero" finds his university tutor's dead body, naturally he slopes off instead of informing the proper authorities. Younette. It's amazing to compare this with his later Lydmouth series or Bleeding Heart Square. If, having enjoyed Taylor's excellent and more recent novels like the 'The Roth Trilogy' or 'The American Boy', you are looking to explore his earlier work, this first volume featuring William Douglas may come as something of a surprise. William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor - and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds, a deadly fairy story in which no one obeys the rules, least of all Dougal's girlfriend Amanda. 1951) is a British author of mysteries. Start by marking “Caroline Minuscule (William Dougal, #1)” as Want to Read: .
La volonté des carolingiens de simplifier et d’unifier l’écriture dans tout le royaume aboutit, après un lent processus, à imposer la minuscule caroline dans toute l’Europe occidentale dès le second quart du IXLe premier type, dit "e-n-a", est encore une écriture mérovingienne. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Todos los derechos reservados. His first novel, Caroline Miniscule (1982), a modern-day treasure hunt starring history student William Dougal, began an eight-book series and won Taylor wide critical acclaim. Having my head and expectations messed with by books is always a good thing though and I really enjoyed this tale, never having a clue where it was going to end up. Ces polices de caractère s’inspirent notamment de la minuscule caroline, que Charlemagne imposa dans son empire. Plenty of twists and red herrings. This is another of the books garnered from a dollar-a-bag book sale. Vuelva a intentarloLo sentimos, no hemos podido registrar tu voto. This turned out to be a sort of stealth reread, since before I got to the second chapter I had a sudden vision of exactly how it ended, without any particular memory of what happened in between.
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Free Font Download: Carolingian Minuscule TrueType Font Download Free Carolingian Minuscule Font (11 KB) Carolingian Minuscule Font Custom Preview Tool. A better place to start than this piece of juvenilia is the far more rewarding Lydmouth series. Basically, he's lazy and self-centred. .
I love his writing and this has humour injected - but the plot is a bit wishy washy. I first read it 30 years ago and happily had forgotten enough to be entertained and surprised second time around.