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| | | | | John Dickson Carr is best known as the master of the impossible crime novel, penning multiple titles that are held among the greatest of that sub-genre of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer, turning out four novels in a year at his peak - an enormous achievement, particularly given how well regarded those titles... | |
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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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| | | | | 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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| | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | ||