El Caso Vermont (Truly Devious): A Mystery - Paperback

by Maureen Johnson (Author)

Nada permanece enterrado para siempre Maureen Johnson nos presenta una sofisticada historia de asesinato y misterio, ambientada en la remota región montañosa de Vermont. Perfecta para los fans de Agatha Christie.

Stevie Bells es una entusiasta fan de crímenes reales. Y qué mejor lugar para profundizar en sus conocimientos que en el Colegio Ellingham, el centro privado fundado
en la década de los treinta por el millonario excéntrico Albert Ellingham en las remotas montañas de Vermont? Poco después de su inauguración la esposa e hija de
Ellingham fueron secuestradas por alguien que se hacía llamar Perverso, además una alumna fue asesinada. Algún tiempo después encontraron el cuerpo sin vida de su esposa, pero el de su hija, Alice, nunca apareció. Stevie tiene la intención de resolver el caso.

Pero Perverso regresa por sorpresa y la muerte visita a Ellingham. El pasado ha salido de su tumba.

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Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. "A place," he said, "where learning is a game."

In 1936, shortly after the school opened, Ellingham's wife and daughter, Iris and Alice, were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym "Truly, Devious." It became one of the great crimes of American history. Something like that could never happen again, of course. . . .

Years later, true-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.

Truly Devious is the first novel in a murder- mystery trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.