Thursday, October 22, 2015

The Return of Harriet Rutland: Knock, Murderer, Knock! (1938), Bleeding Hooks (1940) and Blue Murder (1942) reissued by Dean Street Press

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Under the pseudonym " Harriet Rutland ," Olive Maude (Seers) Shimwell (1901-1962) published three detective novels around the...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The Labours of Hercules (1947), by Agatha Christie, Part Two; Plus a Few Words on the Film Version (2013)

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Picking up where I left off last week , Hercule Poirot has now begun his seventh labor in Agatha Christie 's the short collection The La...
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Tuesday Night Bloggers: Agatha Christie, Week 4

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Here are the links to this week's Tuesday Night Bloggers Agatha Christie posts. This week we introduce a new Tuesday Nighter, Kate J...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Down These Dysfunctional Drawing Rooms a Man Must Go: Ross Macdonald's Black Money (1966) and The Instant Enemy (1968)

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Black Money (1966) is my favorite Ross Macdonald novel from the 1960s, in part because it steers away from the intricate, indeed dizzying, ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Lady Carew's Secret: The Abbey Court Murder (1923), by Annie Haynes

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The Abbey Court Murder   is Annie Haynes's second mystery novel.  It appeared in 1923, the same year that The Bodley Head published th...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The Pyne-Poirot Nexus, Part 2: The Labours of Hercules (1947), by Agatha Christie, Part 1

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More of a shocker sort of fellah Hercules battles the Lernean Hydra In Agatha Christie's The Labours of Hercules  (1947), the Queen...
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The Tuesday Night Bloggers: Agatha Christie, Week Three

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Ready to do the carving? Dr. Armstrong ( Walter Huston ) discourses on crime in the first film version of And Then There Were None T...