Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. What makes the story all the more interesting are its myriad nuances. All the Conspirators (1928) was his first novel and a big miss. Sorry. This novel was written in the 1920s for a 1920s audience. Even though it's only 200 pages, I gave up at 150; the actual story isn't compelling enough. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986. All the Conspirators - Ebook written by Christopher Isherwood. While searching for a copy of the latter in my dad's room I found this - an Isherwood I had not yet read, and his first published novel. Be the first to ask a question about All the Conspirators. Was feeling down when you picked me up... Clouds roll in, well that's just our luck. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. Nothing happens. He must move quickly to stay ahead of the deadly conspirators before they silence his friend. There are some rather half-hearted experiments with style and it is pretentious to a fault. As hilarious as it is provocative! EMBED. The Death of Julius Caesar...What does the saying "Beware the Ides of March!" Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Cheyenne is called to Washington D.C. to take on a special task for the Army. Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2002. Welcome back. A must read for Filipinos. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? I also feel the actual story was sort of weak and had no real substance. Worth reading as part of Isherwood's canon because you can see the novelist he's going to become, but it's not a great book in it's own right. Trying to trace the ring back to its owner, Gar moves through the seedy underbelly of the war-torn country, meeting up with an assortment of characters who might have stepped out of a novel by Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett: the seductive lounge singer; the suspiciously nice guy who turns up just when he's needed; the shady informant (who might be played by a Filipino Peter Lorre). by New Directions. Call it Filipino-noir. We talked... A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after WWI and the generation that tried to escape its values. A crazy, maniacal Actor infiltrates police headquarters posing as the Chief Justice and gets the bad cops to unwittingly confess the truth behind their victim’s “accidental” death. 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