Trouble in Transylvania
Standort:- DR.D : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Kriminalromane
- FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
Verfasser:
Wilson, Barbara
Verfasser Angabe:
Barbara Wilson
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Virago Press
Erscheinungsort:
London
Jahr:
1994
Umfang:
273 S.
ISBN:
1-85381-612-4
Inhalt:
Cassandra Reilly, the travelling translator last seen in award-winning Gaudi Afternoon, is on the move again. A series of chance encounters on the train to Budapest lead her to Romania, where the legacies of the Ceausescu regime - and legends of the vampires - still linger on. At a health spa in Transylvania, Cassandra is joined by a host of intriguing and flamboyant characters, including: the Snap family, with their four-year-old daughter who plays the violin instead of speaking; Gladys Bentwhistle, of Coyote's Pet-n-Wash in Tuscon; and Nadia Pop of the Romanian tourist agency. When murder strikes, Cassandra is ready to investigate with her usual humour and aplomb...