JULY BOOK
We return to the classics for our July selection, namely Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel The Shooting Party (wikilink). Although more celebrated for his plays and short stories, this early work of Chekhov's had a clear influence on the development of the mystery genre. Join the usual suspects this Tuesday, July 8 at our den of bibliquity, Zawa Restaurant (link). Look for the gang on the patio (weather co-operating) at the regular start time of 7pm.
When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was at the center of a tangled web of relationships with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself. One of Anton Chekhov's earliest experiments in fiction, The Shooting Party prefigures the mature style he would develop in his magnificent stories and plays.
