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| | | | Last week I sat this out because other business needed attending to. This week I'm going to try and convince you that the recent republication of Robert Adey's Locked Room Murders from Locked Room International is the best reprint of this calendar year. Look, the public reviewing of books is somewhat of an unusual hobby... | |
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| | | | Slightly belatedly, here are my thoughts on the companion piece to 'The Scoop' (1931), another portmanteau mystery written for radio by some of the luminaries of the Golden Age. This time around, Hugh Walpole sets the problem of a dead body found in your typical Stage 3 suburban household, and Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers,... | |
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| | | | Hang on, haven't we read this before? With a plot that's remarkably similar to last week, we have... 'The Resident Patient' (1893) The Case Showing much promise but possessing little capital, newly-qualified doctor Percy Trevelyan accepts an offer of funding from the elderly Mr. Blessington to set up a practice with his backer as a... | |
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| | So, here was "The Greatest Generation" finishing up World War II, welcomed home to great applause, and Ellery Queen writes a novel about that which includes, front and center, the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder. This is the second novel to take place in the idyllic upstate New York town of Wrightsville. Ellery has been... |