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Showing posts with label Scholastic Mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scholastic Mysteries. Show all posts
1/9/22

The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka (1966) by Josef Skvorecky

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Josef Skvorecky was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher, born in former Czechoslovakia, who became an internationally acclaimed author of...
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9/6/21

Miracle Wave: Joseph Commings' "Assassination—Middle East" (1981), "Murder of a Mermaid" (1982) & "The Grand Guignol Caper" (1984)

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Joseph Commings began writing detective stories against " the unlikely backdrop of a pup tent in Sardinia during the Second World War ...
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7/1/21

Murder Among Virgins (1965) by Ton Vervoort

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My previous blog-posts were reviews of translations of two non-English detective novels, Mika Waltari's Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin? ( W...
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3/27/21

Death by Fire (1990) by C.F. Roe

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Dr. C. Francis Roe was a Scottish-born American doctor and surgeon who spend his twilight years making pottery, sculptures and writing medic...
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10/23/19

The Case of the Dead Shepherd (1934) by Christopher Bush

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Christopher Bush retired in 1931 from teaching in order to dedicate himself full-time to his writing career and his twelfth detective nove...
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7/20/18

The Case of the Fighting Soldier (1942) by Christopher Bush

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Christopher Bush 's The Case of the Fighting Soldier (1942) is the twenty-fifth novel in the Ludovic Travers series and concluded a ...
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10/9/17

The Casebook of Miss Victoria Lincoln

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" I notice while all people are agreed as to the variety of motives that instigate crime, very few allow sufficient margin for vari...
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