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#1085: Let X be the Murderer (1947) by Clifford WittingThe recent Bodies from the Library conference will have brought Clifford Witting to everyone’s mind, so the time seems...
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#1084: Little Fictions – The Book of Clues (1984) by John Sladek: ‘An Arab Death’I’ve said before that detective fiction lost a fine proponent of the form when John Sladek , after two novels and a handful...
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#1083: Five to Try – Elementary, Season 7 (2019)One final go around for US TV’s modern take on Sherlock Holmes, with Jonny Lee Miller filling the detective’s shoes and...
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#1082: The Mill House Murders (1988) by Yukito Ayatsuji [trans. Ho-Ling Wong 2023]The Decagon House Murders (1987, tr. 2015), the excellent first book in Yukito Ayatsuji’s series featuring the bizarre...
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#1081: Minor Felonies – The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022) by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman [ill. Elisa Paganelli]I’ve been in denial about this moment for a long time. M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman have been clear for a while now that their...
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#1080: Our Splendours Are Menagerie – My Ten Favourite ‘New to Me’ British Library Crime ClassicsI looked at my ten favourite fictional sleuths a little while ago, and so, in honour of today’s Bodies from the Library...
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#1079: The Cat’s Eye (1923) by R. Austin Freeman“Follow him! Don’t let him escape! He has just committed a dreadful murder!” — thus is Robert Anstey...
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#1078: Minor Felonies – Trapped! (2018) by James PontiA final outing for James Ponti’s very entertaining trilogy in which two junior sleuths help the FBI solve baffling cases, it is...
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#1077: “A gleeful disregard for law, and an ungentlemanly pride in his own cleverness.” – The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime [ss] (2009) ed. Michael SimsSubtitled Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime [ss]...
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#1076: Checkmate to Murder (1944) by E.C.R. LoracIn the latter stages of World War 2, artist Bruce Manaton is painting the portrait of a friend dressed in the robes of a cardinal,...
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#1075: Minor Felonies – Lion Down (2019) by Stuart GibbsLion Down (2019) is the fifth book in Stuart Gibbs’ FunJungle series and, with previous entry Panda-Monium (2017) being one of...
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#1074: A Dumb Witness in A Dog in the Daytime, a.k.a. Die Like a Dog, a.k.a. The Body in the Hall (1954) by Rex StoutAnother Nero Wolfe novella, this time from the February 1956 British edition of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. I...
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#1073: The Black Curtain (1941) by Cornell WoolrichI’m starting to develop the belief that the novelistic output of Cornell Woolrich can be broadly summed up in a single word:...
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#1072: Minor Felonies – Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden (2021) by Marthe JocelynThe Seaside Corpse (2022), Martha Jocelyn’s fourth novel to feature the Agatha Christie-inspired 13 year-old sleuth Aggie Morton,...
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#1071: “Now there’s been a murder, the situation will be different.” – The Case of the Lame Canary (1937) by Erle Stanley GardnerI might have read as many as half of Erle Stanley Gardner’s 80-some Perry Mason books — it’s difficult to remember, I...
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#1070: Twice Round the Clock (1935) by Billie HoustonThe core framing of Billie Houston’s sole crime novel Twice Round the Clock (1935) — a murdered man discovered in the...
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#1069: Little Fictions – ‘The Engineer’s Thumb’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe World’s Greatest Detective sure does very little in the way of detecting sometimes, doesn’t he? Still,...
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#1068: “I like sometimes to escape from the humdrum of detective investigation…” – The Door with Seven Locks (1926) by Edgar WallaceA title like The Door with Seven Locks (1926) suggests all manner of locked room excitement, hopefully resulting is some impossible...
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#1067: The Case with Nine Solutions (1928) by J.J. ConningtonHard to believe, I know, but I had a life before this blog, and in that life I read The Case with Nine Solutions (1928) by J.J....
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#1066: Little Fictions – ‘The Speckled Band’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleI think ‘The Speckled Band’ (1892) is perhaps the most fun Arthur Conan Doyle ever had writing about his most famous...
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#1065: “Well, you know, I’m pretty hot on a murder puzzle…” – Buffet for Unwelcome Guests [ss] (1983) by Christianna Brand [ed. Francis M. Nevins, Jr. & Martin H. Greenberg]Sixteen stories from Christianna Brand, who, thanks to the likes of the excellent Bodies from the Library (2018-present) series...
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#1064: The Case of the Late Pig (1937) by Margery AllinghamI’m in a confusing place with Margery Allingham. I definitely read three of her books when I started getting into...
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#1063: Little Fictions – ‘The Blue Carbuncle’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleA fixture of Christmas crime story anthologies throughout history; but is it any good? The goose is indeed getting fat,...
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#1062: “That’s exactly the point this gentleman has been making.” – A Day Out for the Armchair Detective in 12 Angry Men (1957) [Scr. Reginald Rose, Dir. Sidney Lumet]I first watched 12 Angry Men (1957) some 20-odd years ago and was delighted, as a callow teenager, to find it more than living up to...
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#1061: Death and the Conjuror (2022) by Tom MeadTom Mead is that rare thing these days: an author writing detective fiction in the classic tradition with some actual interest in...
