The Embroidered Sunset (Black Dagger Crime) [Hardcover]

Joan Aiken (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Chivers North Amer (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745186181
• ISBN-13: 978-0745186184
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,797,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joan Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of Pulitzer prize winning poet Conrad Aiken and started writing herself from the age of five. During her lifetime she published over one hundred books for children and adults, including the acclaimed Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. In the UK she received an MBE from the Queen for her services to Children's Literature.

This year sees the publication of a brand NEW story collection - The Monkey's Wedding - with previously unpublished material that shows Aiken on top form. This collection of funny, spooky, unexpected but classic Aiken stories has received wonderful reviews and will delight her readers. See below for details.

Her work continues to be adapted for film and television; she is established as a consummate storyteller,and recognized as one of the best loved authors of the twentieth century.

"The Wonderful World of Joan Aiken" is at www.joanaiken.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quaint, touching and such a pleasure, September 22, 2008

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Duchess "Duchess" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Embroidered Sunset (Black Dagger Crime) (Hardcover)

Joan Aiken's "Embroidered Sunset" is like a fairy-tale turned mystery. It's very British, in the sense that all characters are rather quaint and, on the most part, very likeable. However, in the midst of all this cute and quaint "tea, aunts, paintings, Goldberg-variations"-story loom murder, sadness and shadows from the past. Aiken's characters are rather two-dimensional, exactly as in fairy-tales, but still touch you to the core, which gives the story a strange and very unusual flavour. It is one of my favourites, extremely well written, great sense of humour, very mysterious and rather tragic.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dull novel about a woman finding her aunt.., April 19, 2005

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Peter LaPrade (worcester ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Embroidered Sunset (Hardcover)

"The Embroided Sunset" is a flat attempt at a mystery. An American woman living with a nasty uncle goes to Yorkshire to find out if her aunt is really dead or alive. She never does find the answer to this, but she does discover that her "aunt" is in danger as she stumbles into where a mad criminal has escaped. The writing is too vague, and there is a odd climax dealing with a flood and a badly built carpark(parking garage), and an ending that bums us out and makes us curse the book for wasting our time.