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ahsweetmystery.com
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| | | | | My Book Club decided to read John Dickson Carr last month - one of his best, I must say - but since I had just re-read it a mere - oh, wait, has it been six years already?!? - I decided to return to my long-standing series, A Carter Dickson Celebration. Since it has beenalmost... | |
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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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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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literarytreats.com
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| | | So I decided to take a mini-break from Agatha Christie and try my hand at solving a case from a different writer. After all, I didn't want to get so used to Christie's style that I could pick out her storytelling tricks and solve her mysteries with my eyes closed. (Hah!) Seriously, though, I'd heard... | ||
