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thereaderiswarned.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Back to another Carr. This one is from his early years and the first novel to feature one of Carr's titanic series detectives Dr Gideon Fell. Hags Nook concerns the terrors of Chatterham Prison, or rather it's ruins, that stand on the site of the Starberth family home. The Starberths have the history of being... | |
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classicmystery.blog
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| | | | | Time for the second round of nominations for the Reprint of the Year award, a "competition" to decide which of the many, many classic crime books that were reprinted this year deserve your attention. I say "competition" because it's not really a competition - it was technically John Dickson Carr who came first and second,... | |
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theinvisibleevent.com
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| | | | | It's incredible to think that Monkey See, Monkey Murder (2023) is James Scott Byrnside's fifth novel, and wonderful to report that it continues to walk the line between classic detection and a 21st century motivation to create something quite unlike what you may have read in the genre before. Following an unprovoked attack by a... | |
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| | | The hybrid mystery -- typically, though not always, a blend of clue-gathering detection and pulse-racing thrills -- is a tricky proposition, since it often smashes together two styles of writing and plotting that don't make the most comfortable of bedfellows. The best example, to my mind, is John Dickson Carr's underappreciated masterpiece The Punch and... | ||
