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  • Members: 408
  • Category: Mystery
  • Founded: Jun 29, 2001
  • Language: English
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For discussion and shared reading of mysteries from the Golden Age (roughly 1910-1960). Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Gladys Mitchell, HC Bailey, Michael Gilbert, Norbert Davis and many many others.

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I KNOW I've seen that face somewhere before. A. A. Milne? Margaret Rutherford?
Posted - Mon Nov 9, 2009 11:33 pm
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Re: A Place of Execution (2008): More "Realistic" then a Golden Age
Jon, I wonder if what you often get today is a surface "realism"--i.e., more sex and violence, but characters not necessarily behaving plausibly? I feel this
Posted - Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:06 pm
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Re: A Place of Execution (2008): More "Realistic" then a Golden Age
It's time to acknowledge that the whole notion of 'realism' is logically incoherent. Any one person can only experience first-hand a tiny part of the world.
Posted - Mon Nov 9, 2009 8:12 pm
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Re: A Place of Execution (2008): More "Realistic" then a Golden Age
Curt, I read the book last year and found it decent but eschewing greatness because of its excessive length and excessively convoluted structure. The
Posted - Mon Nov 9, 2009 7:39 pm
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I just finished watching this British adaptation of a celebrated Val McDermid novel (from 2001, I think). It was very well-acted (it even had Inspector Japp
Posted - Mon Nov 9, 2009 7:10 am
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