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Helen McCloy
At the risk of making a somewhat unceremonious return… 😉 I recently finished Helen McCloy’s The Slayer and the Slain and was inspired, I suppose (it’s really a marvellous book), to write the following. I posted it elsewhere, but I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Ellery Queen, Helen McCloy, Musings
Tagged Ellery Queen, Helen McCloy, Musings, Mystery
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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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Musings on Queen
Finishing Ellery Queen’s The Origin of Evil two days ago and having looked through Francis Nevins’s fascinating if hagiographic overview of the Queen (and Barnaby Ross) books, Royal Bloodline, started me thinking about Queen, recently one of my favorite detective-story writers, and the Queenian worldview. … Continue reading