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#1035: “Our guest has a problem and I direct him to favour us with it.” – Tales of the Black Widowers [ss] (1974) by Isaac Asimov“Twelve mystery masterpieces by the maestro” promises the back cover of Tales of the Black Widowers (1974), the first...
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#1034: Miss Pinkerton, a.k.a. The Double Alibi (1932) by Mary Roberts RinehartI’ve probably, at some point in this blog, been less invested in the outcome of a mystery than I was while reading Miss...
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#1033: Minor Felonies – Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum (2023) by Alasdair Beckett-King [ill. Claire Powell]Right, time to furrow the brow and get serious. Back in June 2020, I had the pleasure of discussing detective...
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#1032: “It is possible to simulate death, as I can demonstrate to interested parties…” – Adventures of a Professional Corpse [ss] (1941) by H. Bedford-JonesHenry Bedford-Jones wrote several hundred pulp stories under at least a dozen noms de plume , but this is my first encounter with his...
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#1031: Tragedy at Ravensthorpe (1927) by J.J. ConningtonThe second novel to feature Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield, Tragedy at Ravensthorpe (1927) joins the likes of The...
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#1030: Little Fictions – ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleAhh, the comfortable middle ground. The 56 short cases featuring Sherlock Holmes inevitably vary in quality from the...
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#1029: “No one can know you are coming — that gives them time to plan.” – Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village (2021) by Maureen Johnson and Jay CooperWhile not strictly about the Golden Age, this endlessly quotable little book (“The aristocracy have three passions: inbreeding,...
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#1028: The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine TeyThe Franchise Affair (1948) was the first novel by Josephine Tey that I ever read, back in the roseate days of probably 2005....
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#1027: Little Fictions – ‘The Red-Headed League’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThis week, one of the all-time classics. I mean, c’mon. In an oeuvre that takes in some of the most famous and...
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#1026: Is This the Start of the Breakdown? – Observable Calibre Decline in Monk Season 3 (2004-05)I started reviewing seasons of Monk (2002-09), starring Tony Shalhoub as the eponymous OCD-afflicted detective who helps the San...
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#1025: Villainy at Vespers (1949) by Joan CockinMan, I’m conflicted on this one. For sheer giddy authorial overlapping of people and events, Villainy at Vespers (1949) by...
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#1024: Little Fictions – ‘A Case of Identity’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Week 2. Sometimes revisiting a story you love can be a mistake, and it pales...
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#1023: “The act of homicide always throws a man off balance.” – Bodies from the Library [ss] (2018) ed. Tony MedawarThe annual Bodies from the Library (2018-present) collections, in which Tony Medawar expertly selects long-forgotten and...
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#1022: The Lake of the Dead (1942) by André Bjerke [trans. James D. Jenkins 2022]Within the space of about a week last year, I received two emails from blogging friends about The Lake of the Dead (1942) by André...
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#1021: Little Fictions – ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ (1891) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleToday begins a long-range project in which I work through the 56 canonical short stories featuring Mr. Sherlock Holmes written by Sir...
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#1020: It Gets Worse Here Every Day in The Mystery of the Nervous Lion (1971) by Nick WestWelcome to Jungle Land! Not many of you will know it, because only about seven people read the posts, but in recent years...
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#1019: Back from the Grave (1940) by Walter S. MastermanIn the London suburb of Balham, stark among the red-brick villas that stand like “lines of red cabbage in a field”, can...
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#1018: “If it’s a new wrinkle in the art of homicide, I want to know all about it.” – The White Priory Murders (1934) by Carter DicksonIt speaks volumes about the excitement that the work of John Dickson Carr provokes in me that, with still around 20 of his novels...
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#1017: The Unsuspected (1946) by Charlotte ArmstrongI don’t know the exact point at which an author becomes one I want to read in great depth, but I do know that the American...
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#1016: Five to Try – Elementary, Season 5 (2016-17)Five more recommended episodes of Elementary , in which Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) solve...
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#1015: Epitaph for a Spy (1938) by Eric AmblerEpitaph for a Spy (1938) places me at the centre of a Venn diagram of two things I heartily dislike — the everyman espionage...
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#1014: “I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories.” – A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleHaving recently enshrined Hercule Poirot as the official World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth , let’s return to the...
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#1013: Fell Murder (1944) by E.C.R. LoracAnother gentle tale of Northern homicide from the pen of E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder (1944) was Chief Inspector Robert...
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#1012: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The ResultWe started back in August , with readers of this blog nominating sleuths of their choosing to be put into a series of gladiatorial...
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#1011: Double or Quits (1941) by A.A. FairWhere the novel of detection delights in tropes so as to better lull you in and then sock you with an unexpected development,...
