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mysteryofmurder.wordpress.com
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| | | | | The 1940s were as much an opening door as they were a closing one as far as classical detection is concerned. Mysteries in the ilk of Agatha Christie's puzzlers and John Dickson Carr's miracle murders were slowly falling out of vogue. Save for a few writers who persisted in the craft, the old-school whodunit was... | |
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literarytreats.com
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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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suddenlyathisresidence.code.blog
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| | | | | Sometimes, I put myself into the position of a eccentric millionaire trapped in the confines of a Golden Age styled detective novel. Now my eccentricity? I'd probably be throwing hordes of money down the throats of some willy translator in order for them to produce translations of foreign language locked room mysteries, though I'm sure... | |
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thereaderiswarned.wordpress.com
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| | | This Golden Age classic wins the award for my favourite title for a crime novel ever, closely followed by Murder Is Easy by Christie (so chilling). And Carter Dickson, pseudonym of the master of the impossible crime John Dickson Carr, has excelled himself in my eyes again. Set against the backdrop of WWII aboard the... | ||
