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28301 Mary Reed
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Feb 6, 2012
11:43 pm
GADers! I may have said this before, but a major clew in this novel will likely be overlooked by people under a certain age because the (ahem) is no longer as...
28302 Carola
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Feb 6, 2012
11:51 pm
One of the very few Ngaio Marsh books I don't have: Hand in Glove. Can anyone tell me whether the character Mr Copper is American or English? Carola ...
28303 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 7, 2012
12:20 am
Great pic of Eliot and title! Cleverer than mine. Thanks for the mention. Eliot is much more sensible than some other critics of crime fiction, I think. ...
28304 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 7, 2012
12:21 am
A good one, I think! http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/02/art-of-murder-murder-in-stained-glass.html...
28305 Enrique F Bird
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Feb 7, 2012
12:54 am
Friends, Continuing to give a rest to my Kindle after several month of intense reading on it, I decided to re-read in the great new Rue Morgue edition Patricia...
28306 jmelsna@...
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Feb 7, 2012
2:35 am
Robert laments: << One of the reasons I patronize my local Long Island library is because it had a surprisingly good number of mystery-detective-crime fiction...
28307 Last Century Detective
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Feb 7, 2012
7:15 am
Another quick note: Well, I found out that I posted my last review without proof reading it and this left a lot more mistakes in the text than usual, but I...
28308 Les
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Feb 7, 2012
11:05 am
I agree completely, and I'm delighted to see Moyes back in print. I have several of hers (most unread for several years, which means I can enjoy them again!);...
28309 miketooney49 Online Now Send Email Feb 7, 2012
3:22 pm
Erga omnes: Does anyone know the title(s) of the particular work(s) by Eliot in which he expressed his opinions of detective fiction?...
28310 Les
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Feb 7, 2012
5:21 pm
Carola - I believe he is English. He's the local garage proprietor and hired car service. George Copper. It's been a while since I read that one, though. Les ...
28311 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 7, 2012
6:04 pm
I used to read A Catalogue of Crime, 1001 Midnights and other books in the reference room at LSU in the 1990s. There is no such thing as "out-of-date" for...
28312 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 7, 2012
6:05 pm
All I recall of names is Percival Pyke Period! Curt...
28313 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 7, 2012
6:06 pm
I have all her books in the old Owl paperback editions. Curt...
28314 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 7, 2012
6:09 pm
He expressed them in the pages of his journal, The Criterion. He also wrote separate essays on Wilkie Collins, the only things people usually mention. I was...
28315 Carola
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Feb 7, 2012
7:47 pm
<< Incidentally, my complimentes to our own Carola Dunn, who does a good job on the Tower of London in her book "The Bloody Tower" which I highly recommend.>> ...
28316 Patrick O
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Feb 8, 2012
5:28 pm
The ongoing series "Ten Little Indians" continues on my blog today. The third character to get analysed is General Macarthur-- personally speaking, Macarthur...
28317 miketooney49 Online Now Send Email Feb 8, 2012
8:23 pm
"He visits the scene where the rally is going to culminate, investigates the surrounding shops and notices that there is a bullet hole in the glass window of...
28318 Last Century Detective
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Feb 9, 2012
8:48 am
An engrossing historical mystery and inverted detective story set during Rangaku in Japan: ...
28319 miketooney49 Online Now Send Email Feb 10, 2012
5:53 pm
"Two equally unpleasant brothers are found dead in the maze of the country house where they live ... A maze is a great, if obvious, image to use in mystery...
28320 miketooney49 Online Now Send Email Feb 10, 2012
8:12 pm
"Anthony Wynne is known for his locked room murders and impossible crime novels which number more than 20. While some of them deal with clever puzzle plots,...
28321 lisa shevin
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Feb 10, 2012
11:45 pm
Does anybody have any old copies of eqmm they would like to sell? I mean from the 40's-60's? I would love to add some to my collection [Non-text portions of...
28322 prettysinister Offline Send Email Feb 11, 2012
5:19 am
I have five copies of EQMM I purchased to read only the stories of A H Z Carr, Cornell Woolrich and Q. Patrick. I would be willing to sell them to you at a...
28323 vegetableduck Offline Send Email Feb 11, 2012
11:11 pm
At The Passing Tramp: http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/02/stock-taking.html Curt...
28324 Last Century Detective
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Feb 12, 2012
11:11 am
I have posted a review of T.C.H. Jacobs' APPOINTMENT WITH THE HANGMAN on my blog and I have changed the font and increased its size for a better readability....
28325 bobhouk@...
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Feb 12, 2012
4:19 pm
Sorry the book was poor, but the format changes are good. I'm not a fan of reverse type, but it can work if the font is large, as yours is. ... From: Last...
28326 Mike Detlefsen
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Feb 12, 2012
4:30 pm
... I'm not either. I generally won't read anything with reverse type. Mike...
28327 Lisa Shevin
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Feb 12, 2012
8:18 pm
After looking over what I have already, I realized that I actually have the Jan. 1960 issue. I will definitely take the others you listed though. Thanks...
28328 Valerie
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Feb 13, 2012
8:15 pm
Where can I find Wilkie Collins' rules for detective fiction? Thanks. Valerie Zwirn...
28329 vegetableduck Offline Send Email 2:35 am
In this one I consider the fact that there really is detection in hard-boiled tales! Part 2 will deal with Bill Pronzini. ...
28330 vegetableduck Offline Send Email 2:36 am
Valerie,a slip of the keyboard--that should be Eliot, not Collins! Curt...
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