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theinvisibleevent.com
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| | | | | You're doubtless aware of the superbly wide-ranging Golden Age-focussed Shedunnit podcast run by Caroline Crampton, and I was delighted to be asked to contribute to an episode about locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. The results are now online for your listening pleasure. We take a broad look at the origins and development of the... | |
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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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moonlight-detective.blogspot.com
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| | | | | John Pugmire of Locked Room International published an English translation of Paul Halter 's L'arbe aux doigts tordus ( The Vampire Tre... | |
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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... | ||