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Review: Nine Man’s Murder
Regular readers of this blog (and thank you immeasurably for that!) know that I don’t usually do reviews. That’s mostly because I simply don’t have the patience for them (oh, how my mind wanders!), which is why my hat is … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Reviews
Tagged Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Eric Keith, Nine Man's Murder, Review, Ten Little Indians, Terrible
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New Carrian Author?
I’ll try to post the solution to “Death in the Sun” soon, but until then… Has anyone seen this piece of Jon L. Breen’s in the Weekly Standard? Fascinating stuff. http://www.weeklystandard.com/room-for-murder/article/2002994
Posted in Authors, Musings, Reviews
Tagged Books, Death in the Sun, John Dickson Carr, Jon L. Breen, Locked Room Mystery, Mystery, New Authors, The Weekly Standard
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Is ‘Lord Edgware Dies’ Fair Play?
Originally posted on Golden Age of Detective Fiction Forum:
I’ve recently reread Christie’s “Lord Edgware Dies” (aka “Thirteen at Dinner”) and was again troubled by the question of whether one of the key moments of misdirection is fair. Hastings has…
Posted in Musings, Reviews
Tagged Agatha Christie, Captain Hastings, Fair Play, GAD, Hercule Poirot, Jane Wilkinson, Lord Edgware Dies, Musings, Question, Thoughts
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Top 10 Agatha Christie Books
This blog is threatening to become a nightmare of lists, but here goes: my top ten Agatha Christie novels. Now, this is not going to be that a list of that vague and nebulous term “the best,” with a thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Capsule Reviews, Reviews, Uncategorized
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“Murder,” She Spelled Out Real Plain
Of the large number of TV detective shows that longtime friends and collaborators William Link and Richard Levinson created, Ellery Queen (1975-1976) and Columbo (1968-1978; 1989-2003) seem (to me) to be the best. Columbo, of course, is the (far) longer running and the better known–and, … Continue reading
Posted in Capsule Reviews, Musings, Reviews, TV
Tagged Agatha Christie, Columbo, Ellery Queen, Impossible Crime, John Dickson Carr, Murder She Wrote, Musings, TV, Whodunit
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Le roi est mort, vive le roi…
Here we go with some more Ellery Queen–nothing wrong with that, I suppose. Today’s book, Ellery Queen’s The King is Dead (1952), has gotten a largely negative reception from mystery fans, which is (a) too bad, for it’s a fine book, … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Reviews
Tagged Allegory, Ellery Queen, Impossible Crime, Musings, Orson Welles, Review, The King is Dead, Whodunit
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