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#1010: A Reading Round-Up for 2022I last did one of these posts at the end of 2017 , and have been rather too busy talking about books to concentrate on such...
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#1009: The Right Murder (1941) by Craig Rice“Now you take this guy who was killed New Year’s Eve. If he was gonna be killed, why couldn’t he have had his passport on him, or a...
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#1008: Minor Felonies – Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022) by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman [ill. Elisa Paganelli]If the genre’s Golden Age had one commendable attribute, it’s that there was no pressure to outdo previous entries in a...
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#1007: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The Final!It’s all been leading to this. We started with over 100 names, which were whittled down before any voting to the...
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#1006: Green for Danger (1944) by Christianna BrandI first read Green for Danger (1944) by Christianna Brand about 12 years ago on the back of enthusiastic Agatha Christie...
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#1005: Minor Felonies – Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: Peril at Owl Park (2020) by Marthe JocelynThis second entry in Marthe Jocelyn’s Aggie Morton series — featuring juvenile sleuths inspired by both Agatha Christie and...
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#1004: Reprint of the Year – Deadline at Dawn (1944) by Cornell Woolrich [a.p.a. by William Irish]God, I love Cornell Woolrich. The more Woolrich I read, the more I come to realise that his strengths lie not so much in...
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#1003: Found Floating (1937) by Freeman Wills CroftsIn the same year that Agatha Christie mixed sight-seeing and shipboard slaughter in Death on the Nile (1937), Freeman Wills Crofts...
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#1002: Minor Felonies – The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage (1954) by Enid BlytonWell, it seems that you write off Enid Blyton at your peril…! In my defence, after opening the Five Find-Outers series...
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#1001: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The Semi-FinalsIt’s getting very exciting now. We started with 64 of the most prestigious and admired detectives from...
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#1000: A Locked Room Library – One Hundred Recommended BooksIn the back of my mind when I started The Invisible Event was the idea that exactly half of what I’d post about would...
