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4/6/22

Death of a Tall Man (1946) by Frances and Richard Lockridge

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Richard and Frances Lockridge were a mystery writing couple who, more or less, accidentally created one of the most endearing American dete...
4/2/22

Death's Mannikins (1937) by Max Afford

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Malcolm Afford was an Australian newspaper reporter, playwright and radio scenarist, " considered somewhat of a pioneer of the whodunit...
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3/30/22

Reconstructive Nostalgia: Q.E.D. vol. 17-18 by Motohiro Katou

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"Disaster of a Disastrous Man" is the first of two stories from Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 17 and marks the return of the C...
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3/26/22

The Case of the Faithful Heart (1939) by Brian Flynn

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The Case of the Faithful Heart (1939) is Brian Flynn 's twenty-fourth Anthony Bathurst mystery and picked this particular title as the ...
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3/23/22

Inspector De Klerck and the Dark Web (2022) by P. Dieudonné

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Last year, I reviewed P. Dieudonné's Rechercheur De Klerck en moord in scène ( Inspector De Klerck and Murder on the Scene , 2021) and ...
3/22/22

Murder Most Scientific: "The Shredded Rose" (1978) by Lynwood Sawyer

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Lynwood Sawyer was twenty-five when he submitted his first and only short story, "The Shredded Rose," to Ellery Queen's Myster...
3/20/22

Black Edged (1939) by Brian Flynn

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So far, March has not been the month of the traditional detective story with reviews of 1970s retro-pulp , vampire murders , pastiches and ...
3/16/22

The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen (2020) edited by Josh Pachter and Dale C. Andrews

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The Misadventures of Ellery Queen (2018) is a tribute to the American detective story, Ellery Queen , which collected a selection of quali...
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3/12/22

Murder Without a Net (1962) by Martin Meroy

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"Martin Meroy" was the penname of Charles Ewald, a French journalist, radio producer and writer, who penned a series of typical, 1...
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