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playingatdetection.com
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| | | | | Oh, Bacchus! The first appearance of John Dickson Carr's most famous detective, Dr. Gideon Fell is a spooky yet humourous tale of murder and mires. | |
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jamesscottbyrnside.com
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| | | | | It doesn't take far into Carr's oeuvre before a reader begins to recognize the signposts. Here's the meet-cute and there's the first brief mention of the curse/legend/myth which will soon be tragically reenacted for our ghoulish pleasure. The foolish authority figure (not quite so foolish this time round), the suspicious relatives, and the blusterous authority... | |
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mrskinvestigates.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Hag's Nook, and the prison built around it, has loomed over the Starberth family for generations. An entail in the family inheritance dictates that on their twenty-fifth birthday, the eldest son must spend an hour alone in the Governor's Room of the prison; during which time he must also unlock a safe and examine its... | |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
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| | | Translated from German by Basil Creighton The success of Grand Hotel (published 1929) enabled Vicki Baum, who saw what was coming to Europe, to move her family permanently to Hollywood in 1932. Thus she was free to roam the world, when even Hollywood became too claustrophobic. ("Fifty people were using my toothbrush", was how she... | ||
