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mysteriesahoy.com
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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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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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thereaderiswarned.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Back to another Carr. This one is from his early years and the first novel to feature one of Carr's titanic series detectives Dr Gideon Fell. Hags Nook concerns the terrors of Chatterham Prison, or rather it's ruins, that stand on the site of the Starberth family home. The Starberths have the history of being... | |
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superfluousreading.wordpress.com
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| | | I have something different to offer today. On a comment on my first reading of a book by John Dickson Carr, a plan was struck to read and discuss this particular reprint and below is the result. It was great fun and this is way more detailed than something I could put together by myself... | ||
