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#1134: The Murder Wheel (2023) by Tom MeadIn these classic reprint-rich days, the work of Tom Mead — not just recycling the past, but building upon it by paying informed homage...
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#1133: “I would detect with dignity or not at all.” – Sealed Room Murder (1941) by Rupert PennyI’m pretty sure that Sealed Room Murder (1941), the eighth and final novel by Rupert Penny to feature Chief Inspector Edward Beale, was only...
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#1132: The Case of the Smoking Chimney (1943) by Erle Stanley GardnerWhile you’ve hopefully been enjoying the regular reviews on The Invisible Event, I’ve been sweating bullets over the fact that I hit a...
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#1131: Minor Felonies – The Detention Detectives (2023) by Lis JardineOn one hand, the artwork promoting The Detention Detectives (2023) by Lis Jardine is excessively twee, even by the standards of juvenile fiction;...
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#1130: The Red Widow Murders (1935) by John Dickson Carr [a.p.a. by Carter Dickson]I’ve written previously about The Red Widow Murders (1935) — John Dickson Carr’s first take on the Room That Kills, originally...
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#1129: Minor Felonies – Lying in the Deep (2023) by Diana UrbanLying in the Deep (2023) by Diana Urban was brought to my attention by a piece the author wrote on CrimeReads in which she said that she had taken...
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#1128: Running Over the Same Old Ground – An Ordered Critical Dissection of Monk Season 4 (2005-06)Season 4 of Monk is upon us — well, upon the blog, because it aired 18 years ago and I’m only just catching up — and, since...
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#1127: Suddenly at His Residence, a.k.a. The Crooked Wreath (1946) by Christianna BrandGood heavens, after this second reading of Christianna Brand’s Suddenly at His Residence, a.k.a. The Crooked Wreath (1946) do I have plenty...
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#1126: Minor Felonies – The Mystery of the Missing Man (1956) by Enid BlytonAnother school hols, and another case for the Five Find-Outers. A conference brings the great and the good of coleopterology to Peterswood,...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 30: The Joys of Detective Fiction + Montgomery Bonbon: Death at the Lighthouse (2023) by Alasdair Beckett-King [w’ Alasdair Beckett-King]The return of my In GAD We Trust podcast, and a welcome return for Alasdair Beckett-King, comedian and now children’s author. Since last...
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#1124: Bats Fly at Dusk (1942) by A.A. FairWith considerations of the era taking Donald Lam out of the Cool and Lam Detective Agency, Bertha Cool is left to fend for herself when a blind man...
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#1123: Minor Felonies – Montgomery Bonbon: Death at the Lighthouse (2023) by Alasdair Beckett-King [ill. Claire Powell]Everyone enjoys a break from work, but when your job is to turn up somewhere and have a baffling crime occur, how can you guarantee you’re...
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#1122: “I think an ambulance might be a bit optimistic.” – Death Goes by Bus in Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017) [Scr. Jason Cook; Dir. Simon Delaney]In much the same way that movies like Murder on the Orient Express (1974/2017) draw in audiences with their roster of famous names, this humorous...
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#1121: Follow As the Night, a.k.a. Your Loving Victim (1950) by Pat McGerr [a.p.a. by Patricia McGerr]Having finally achieved all he has so long dreamed of, Larry Rock has just one lingering problem: one of the women from his chequered past must die...
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#1120: Mining Mount TBR – Murder Points a Finger (1953) by David AlexanderIt was probably TomCat’s review of Murder Points a Finger (1953) by David Alexander which first put the book on my radar, but chances of...
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#1119: Here a Star, and There a Star – My Ten Favourite Ramble House NovelsIt looks like I might be making these ‘Ten Favourite…’ lists a thing, having previously done fictional detectives and British...
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#1118: Through the Walls (1937) by Noël Vindry [trans. John Pugmire 2021]Full disclosure, this is the second time I’ve read Through the Walls (1937, tr. 2021) by Noel Vindry, but I was on blog hiatus at first...
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#1117: Mining Mount TBR – Death Knocks Three Times (1949) by Anthony GilbertI’ve heard great things about the novels Lucy Beatrice Malleson wrote under the name Anthony Gilbert but, apart from one title in the British...
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#1116: “People don’t just disappear into thin air.” – Wheels Within Wheels in The Lady Vanishes (1938) [Scr. Sidney Gilliatt & Frank Launder; Dir. Alfred Hitchcock]Like a lot of people, I’m sure, I got on a classic movie kick in my teenage years and watched many of the greats, including much of Alfred...
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#1115: The Wheel Spins, a.k.a. The Lady Vanishes (1936) by Ethel Lina WhiteYoung Iris Carr is travelling back to England alone when she is befriended by governess Winifred Froy; taking tea in the dining car of their train,...
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#1114: Mining Mount TBR – The Widow’s Cruise (1959) by Nicholas BlakeNicholas Blake is hardly a dusty and forgotten member of detective fiction’s past, but my experiences with him to date have been so lacking...
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#1113: Adventures in Self-Publishing – The Author is Dead (2022) by A. CarverExcepting a couple of books by James Scott Byrnside, who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Self-Publishing, the last time I pursued...
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#1112: Fatal Venture, a.k.a. Tragedy in the Hollow (1939) by Freeman Wills CroftsFatal Venture (1939) represents, by my count, the ninth time in twenty-three books that Freeman Wills Crofts has devised a criminal scheme which...
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#1111: Mining Mount TBR – Death on the Double (1957) by Henry KaneI often find myself in possession books with no idea why I bought them — there was a good reason at the time, or a recommendation from a...
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#1110: “Is there anything that leads you to connect this man with the crime?” – Dr. Thorndyke’s Casebook, a.k.a. The Blue Scarab [ss] (1923) by R. Austin FreemanSeven stories featuring Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke, medical jurist extraordinaire and one of my very, very favourite detectives from the...
