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| | | | | The 1940s were as much an opening door as they were a closing one as far as classical detection is concerned. Mysteries in the ilk of Agatha Christie's puzzlers and John Dickson Carr's miracle murders were slowly falling out of vogue. Save for a few writers who persisted in the craft, the old-school whodunit was... | |
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| | | | | RHYS BOWEN : Last week I watched a Miss Marple on television. I think it was called The Sittaford Mystery. Apparently that was its original... | |
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| | | | | Provincial panorama :D :D :D :D :D On his way home from Edinburgh, antiquarian Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns meets a young man, William Lovel, travelling in the same direction. They strike up a friendship and Oldbuck invites Lovel to Monkbarns and introduces him to his family and neighbours. One of the neighbours is Isabella Wardour, | |
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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... | ||