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mysteryofmurder.wordpress.com
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| | | | | The 1940s were as much an opening door as they were a closing one as far as classical detection is concerned. Mysteries in the ilk of Agatha Christie's puzzlers and John Dickson Carr's miracle murders were slowly falling out of vogue. Save for a few writers who persisted in the craft, the old-school whodunit was... | |
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ahsweetmystery.com
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| | | | | Considering how much I have loved John Dickson Carr for the past fifty years, it never ceases to baffle me that I purposefully, and with extreme prejudice, decided to ignore the work of one Carter Dickson. It was nothing more than a childish whim, one that in 2018 I began to rectify by tackling the... | |
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theinvisibleevent.com
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| | | | | In light of my recent favourable experience with Ellery Queen's The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934), my thoughts turn to the benefits and pitfalls of reading GAD authors' novels in chronological order. The old joke is that they had to write them in that order, but is there any real benefit or detriment in reading them... | |
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theinvisibleevent.com
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| | | This, my 200th post on this blog, will also be the 100th to be tagged with the subject 'Impossible Crimes' and -- since my very first was a review of Paul Halter's The Phantom Passage -- I thought I'd hold this milestone to look at the most recent Halter translation from John Pugmire's Locked Room... | ||
