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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... | |
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tangledyarnsblog.wordpress.com
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| | | | | (Trans. Louise Heal Kawai. Originally published as Honjin satsujin jiken.) If I have any regrets so far in my journey through detective fiction, it is that I have mostly neglected the shin honkaku school of Japanese mystery writing even though I know from what little I've read of it that it is completely up my... | |
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mysteriesahoy.com
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| | | | | Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years-in just one week. With the help of his freelance illustrator friend, Kiyoshi sets out to answer the questions that have haunted the country ever since: Who murdered the artist Umezawa, raped and killed his daughter,... | |
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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... | ||
