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theinvisibleevent.com
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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... | |
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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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thegreencapsuleblog.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Out of all of the impossible crime author's I've read, John Dickson Carr has grabbed my obsession. My entry point for most author's has been the short story, although the mere premise of Leo Bruce's Case for Three Detectives was enough to pull me in. Satisfied with The Wrong Problem and Blind Man's Hood, and... | |
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thereaderiswarned.wordpress.com
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| | | If you have never heard of the name John Dickson Carr before, let me introduce you. Carr was generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, and is known as the master of the locked room mystery or impossible crime genre. John Dickson Carr, and under his... | ||
