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| | | | | television With a sense of foreboding, I sat down to watch this second set of three Marple adaptations. We had not exactly started off auspiciously and I had visions of Agatha Christie vaguely stirring in her grave as broadcast signals slowly penetrated the soil around her grave. The first effort is A Murder Is Announced.... | |
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| | | | | Set in 1958 this tightly plotted, precise and polished mystery/detective story is very set in its time. Tokyo Express by Seich? Matsumoto, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is a masterwork of minimalist craftsmanship. No detail is extraneous. No scene could be cut. The setting starts as a thriller more than a murder mystery, but... | |
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| | | | | Fresh off my defeat from trying to solve The Decagon House Murders, I decided to try my hand at another Japanese murder mystery. And this time, I decided to go a touch more classical. Seishi Yokomizo's Kosuke Kindaichi mysteries were published in the mid-20th century, with the first in the series,The Honjin Murders, published in... | |
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| | | 1 post published by Reclaiming Paradise on August 8, 2025 | ||