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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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| | 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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| | 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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| The Men Who Explain Miracles was a podcast with a focus on impossible crimes in fiction, staffed by myself and Dan from The Reader is Warned, which I have a feeling has run its course now. This page will serve as a record the episodes, with a brief introduction and the relevant audio link(s); if...