tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post3258590522456748960..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: The Big Apple ChaseTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-56249922963689864802011-03-06T09:50:58.642+01:002011-03-06T09:50:58.642+01:00The book that I keep praising ad nauseum, The Frig...The book that I keep praising ad nauseum, <i>The Frightened Stiff</i>, also has a fairly clever impossible situation: how could a top floor apartment been stripped of all its furniture without anyone noticing it?<br /><br />If you have this one in your collection, I recommend you place it on the top of your TBR pile!TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-29593247072470238892011-03-06T01:22:05.374+01:002011-03-06T01:22:05.374+01:00The Roos books remind me of the Lockridges when th...The Roos books remind me of the Lockridges when they were cooking with gas. The early ones have the same effervescence and clever plots. Later their Jerry & Pam North books got routine and plodding.<br /><br />I've read <i>Sailor Take Warning!</i> and I've seen the French movie with Brigitte Bardot that became <i>Voulez-vous danser avec moi?</i> It was based on <i>The Blonde Died Dancing</i>. Both are impossible crime books. <i>Sailor Take Warning</i> uses a famous gimmick similar to the one in Chesterton used in his "The Invisible Man." For some reason Robert Adey missed this impossible crime aspect of the book in his <i>Locked Room Murders</i> bibliography. I have three other Roos books and keep meaning to read them.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.com