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Showing posts with label R.I.P. Challenge. Show all posts
Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Floating Lady Murder

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  The Floating Lady Murder (2000) by Daniel Stashower It's turn-of-the-century New York and Harry Houdini is not yet "The Great Ho...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Death & the Conjuror

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  Death & the Conjure r (2022) by Tom Mead Joseph Spector was one of the greatest magicians. Since his semi-retirement he's turned h...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The War of the Worlds Murder

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  The War of the Worlds Murder (2005) by Max Allan Collins [a slight reworking of a previous review when read from the library] Unlike the ...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Body Blow

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  Body Blow (1962) by Kenneth Hopkins The third (and, unfortunately last) of Hopkins' mysteries featuring Dr. Blow (81 years old!) and ...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

The Will of the Tribe

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  The Will of the Tribe (1962) by Arthur W. Upfield An unknown man is found dead in the middle of a meteor crater in the Australian desert....
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Death & Chicanery

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  Death & Chicanery (1962) by Philip MacDonald A light collection of short stories from the author of The List of Adrian Messenger and...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Hopjoy Was Here

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  Hopjoy Was Here (1962) by Colin Watson The police at Flaxborough receive an anonymous tip. Something nasty has happened at the home of of...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery

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 Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962) as by Alfred Hitchcock (ed) Our elementary school library had several of these collections w...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

What Happened at Hazelwood?

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  What Happened at Hazelwood? (1946) by Michael Innes (J. I. M. Stewart) Hazelwood is your standard country house in a murder mystery. Choc...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

While the Clock Ticked

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 While the Clock Ticked (1932) by Franklin W. Dixon Raymond Dalrymple comes to the Hardy home looking for Fenton Hardy. He hopes to hire the...
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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Depart This Life

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  Depart This Life (1958) by E. X. Ferrars Hilda Gazeley has lived with her brother Stephen and niece for the last six years. She came to h...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Bullet That Missed

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  The Bullet That Missed (2022) by Richard Osman It's time once again for the Thursday Murder Club gang to get themselves involved in a...
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Nemesis

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 Nemesis (1971) by Agatha Christie (Read by Joan Hickson) Several years ago Miss Jane Marple and Jason Rafiel shared a murderous adventure ...
Friday, September 22, 2023

The Man in the Cellar

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  The Man in the Cellar (1907; aka Amy's Cat ) by Palle Rosenkrantz Holger Nielson is a Danish lawyer and amateur criminologist on a th...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Hemlock Hollow

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  Hemlock Hollow (2022) by Culley Holderfield When Caroline McAlister was young, her family would spend summers at their cabin in Hemlock H...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Cat Among the Pigeons

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 Cat Among the Pigeons  (1959) by Agatha Christie; read by Hugh Fraser We open at the beginning of the summer term at Meadowbank, the Britis...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Borkmann's Point

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 Borkmann's Point (1994) by   Häkan Nesser Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is in the last days of his vacation when his boss calls him to a...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

The Big Sleep

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  The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler Introducing...Philip Marlowe. Chandler's first detective novel gives us the educated, street...

Holding

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  Holding (2016) by Graham Norton British talk show host Graham Norton serves up a mystery debut wrapped in dark comedy. Set in the small I...