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ahsweetmystery.com
This past weekend, my Book Club tackled a title I have referred to in the past as "John Dickson Carr'sRoger Ackroyd" - this would be 1937'sThe Burning Court. I have spoken at length about the book before, but I have to mention that this month's meeting offered us the rare treat of having a guest... |
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mysteriesahoy.com
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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mrskinvestigates.wordpress.com
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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theinvisibleevent.com
With their gloomy house in isolated woodland, overlooking a dreary bay and containing a mask from Japanese Noh theatre that is rumoured to carry a curse, it's frankly amazing that no-one in the Chizui family -- "[r]iven by mutual suspicion, hatred and a sheer failure to understand one another..." -- has been found murdered in... |
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