Add this copy of The Last Houseparty to cart. $1.95, very good condition, Sold by Basement Seller 101 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Pantheon.
Add this copy of The Last Houseparty to cart. $2.99, good condition, Sold by Ahab Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Glencoe, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Pantheon.
Add this copy of The Last Houseparty to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Kubik Fine Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dayton, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Pantheon Books.
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Very Good. 222p. A softcover book in very good condition. A few light creases and crinkles in the cover, but spine is flat. Pagea a bit toned with age, as is typical of vintage paperbacks. Otherwise clean and tight.
Add this copy of The Last Houseparty (Pantheon International Crime) to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Robinson Street Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Pantheon.
Everything Peter Dickinson has ever written is marvellous, but this is definitely one of my favourites. Like many of his mysteries, it isn't a normal detective novel, but an exploration of past events that leads to some sort of resolution. The Last Houseparty is never exactly resolved, but that's part of the reason it is so good. Exactly what happened at the last houseparty at Snailwood Castle is never explained, and never resolved. Much of the book is set at the castle, during a glamorous house party organized by the flamboyant Zena--the last of her famed "superduperdos", sometime in the thirties. The house party, and the Snailwoods, fall apart when a child is assaulted, and a mysterious fire breaks out. Fifty years later, the child, now the owner of the abandoned estate, looks back on the events of that weekend, and tries to uncover the truth, with only the firm conviction that the man accused of assaulting her was not the perpetrator. As her memories return, the reader is plunged into a maze of conflicting motives, disparate characters, and the shambles that caused one ordinary weekend to be, indeed, the last houseparty.
