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Just a quick note that my review of Martin Edwards’ The Golden Age of Murder has just appeared at Eurocrime. A very timely book, given the seemingly massive resurgence of interest in classic crime fiction, and a great Christmas gift … Continue reading
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P. G. Wodehouse isn’t an obvious candidate for a classic crime blog, but I thought I’d review The Swoop as a warning to the unwary. Continue reading
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Late last year I read Mary Robert Rinehart’s ‘had I but known’ classic The Circular Staircase. I really took to the narrator, Miss Rachel Innes, who in her old age is ready for adventure. It’s… the story of how a middle-aged spinster … Continue reading
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Lionel Davidson surely deserves a bit of a renaissance. With two titles in the CWA’s 1990 list of the top 100 crime and thriller novels, he ranks alongside John Le Carré, and outranks Ian Fleming; The Sun Chemist is at number 88 in the CWA chart. Davidson won the CWA’s Gold Dagger three times and also won the Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 2001. Continue reading
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The Mayfair Mystery Frank Richardson First published 1907 by Mitchell Kennerley as 2835 Mayfair Published 1929 by the Detective Story Club Ltd This edition HarperCollins, August 2015 240 pages ISBN: 9780008137083 Source: Bodies from the Library The Detective Story Club was launched by the … Continue reading
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Thought I’d share the first picture of Rowan Atkinson as pipe-wielding flic Maigret…
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First up, an unexpected entrant. Dame Ngaio Marsh surprised us all by still writing in the 80s. Continue reading
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