Celia's Secret: An Investigation. [Import] [Hardcover]

Michael and David Burke. Frayn (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 116 pages
• Publisher: Faber and Faber; First Edition edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0571205305
• ISBN-13: 978-0571205301
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,734,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Celia`s Secret, August 11, 2009

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DONALD H MARK "DustyTomes" (Portland, Oregon, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celia's Secret: An Investigation. (Hardcover)

Synopsis Who is Celia, and what are the mysterious papers found concealed under the attic floorboards of an old country house? Are they simply instructions for assembling a table-tennis table, written in idiosyncratic German, or could they contain a coded message?

3.0 out of 5 stars The Joke's on Us, September 7, 2000

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Page V. Tolbert (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Celia's Secret: An Investigation. (Hardcover)

This book begins promisingly enough -- with a mystery. A truly baffling and well-written mystery. And if you've seen Michael Frayn's superb play "Copenhagen," so much the better.

But as the story unfolds, the mystery unravels. To say how would be essentially to reveal this entire little book, so I won't. But suffice it to say that, in a sense, the reader is the "victim" in this mystery; you'll have to decide how you feel about that.

I have to confess though -- I tore through it in two sittings....