One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, 
gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The
 setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is
 reading by the fire. Mrs. Hargreave III is whiling away her time at patience. And Miss 
Rosemary Travis and her friend, Dorothy, are wondering which of their housemates will be
 the next to die.For even as Michael Dibdin's elderly sleuths debate clues and motives,
 it becomes clear that Eventide Lodge is not a genteel country inn but a place of ghastly
 cruelties and humiliations. A place where the logic of murder is . . .almost comforting.
 At once affectionate homage and audacious satire, The Dying of the Light will delight
 any aficionado of Patricia Highsmith, Peter Dickinson, or Ruth Rendell.
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