Five Carrs: The Lost Gallows (1931). IMO the best of the Bencolins. Early, over the top Carr with brilliant atmosphere. The Three Coffins (1935). Perhaps his...
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles--country house, introduces Poirot- Hastings 2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd--her career-making book 3. The Murder at the...
If you expand to ten Christies! (really, it's hard not to) 1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles 2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 3. The Murder at the Vicarage 4....
These are all good choices. Here's another approach: - "Some Buried Caesar," yes, definitely the best "Golden Age Stout" and a good introduction to Wolfe and...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Murder at the Vicarage Sad Cypress A Murder is Announced The Clocks That's one from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Jeff ...
Some Buried Caesar The Silent Speaker Champagne for One The Mother Hunt The Doorbell Rang (I'd love to count all 3 Arnold Zecks as 1 tome, but I think I'd be...
The problem with the Wolfe novella trio collections is that often you find a good one an average one and a bad one in each book. Too bad someone hasn't...
I've often wondered whether the real reason for the shows cancellation was the same one given for POLICE SQUAD. Made by the same producers as AIRPLANE and THE...
"It is safe to say that with the exception of one or two [novels], like Mr. Pottermack's Oversight (1930), [the novels] are markedly inferior to the short...
... Looking-glass hay, then, perhaps: ======== 'You alarm me!' said the King. 'I feel faint—Give me a ham sandwich!' On which the Messenger, to Alice's great...
James Zemboy's The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie, A Reader's Guide (2008) is a reference work and an excellent one. After a short introduction with some...
FYI, there is a new biography of Msgr. Ronald Knox (Detection Club member, author of the famous ten commandments of detective fiction, uncle of the late...
And it's affordable! Because it's a "literary biography," sounds like there will be more on his detective fiction than there is in the Waugh book. Curt ... ...
If I were to approach this topic via Jeffrey's idea (one from each decade), I'd want to offer her *best* from each decade, which for me would be: 20's - The...
I don't know how (or if it's possible) to hide something in a "spoiler" on this forum, so I'll just be oblique in my question here: Probably my favorite...
Mike Grost discusses Carolyn Wells's novel on the Mystery*File weblog: http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=1010 "'Anybody but Anne' does establish that what we...
Mike Tooney reviews Hal White's "The Mysteries of Reverend Dean" at Steve Lewis' blog MYSTERY*FILE: http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=1011 "Now we come to one...
Scott wrote in part ... [Semi-spoiler] As might be guessable from the title, the victim is bludgeoned by a curio in that shape. Being killed by an unusual...
A three-sectioned novel, the first section of which is an entertaining account of the titular falling-out among three rogues that leads to murder. This part...
Well, Symons is wrong, of course; after all, Bloody Murder is essentially propaganda for the crime novel, and its superiority to the old-fashioned, cardboard...
For those who have read 'The Mysteries of Reverend Dean,' what do you think of these comments: "... with the emphasis on detailed, and sometimes rather ...
I think that reviewer misses the point. Hal White has set out - successfully, I think - to write some new locked-room stories along classic lines. Complaining...
Mike Ripley digs up an archaeological thriller on his 'Shots E-zine': http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/columns/ripley/ripley0209.html "'Murder by Burial' is far from...
George Kelley and Marcia Muller review Freeman Wills Crofts novel on the Mystery*File weblog: http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=1009 "This book -- and most of...
... By coincidence, today I read the Great Merlini story "Miracles - All in a Day's Work" in the book collecting all the short stories of the magician sleuth....
