Saturday, July 31, 2021

The Country Cottage Murders of Elizabeth Ferrars (1907-1995): The Lying Voices (1954)

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When I rediscovered classic mystery in the 1990s, when I was in graduate school pursuing a degree in history, I also discovered that public ...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

To the Lighthouse; or, Good Fences Make Good Murders: Deathblow Hill (1935), by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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Deathblow Hill was Phoebe Atwood Taylor 's (henceforward PAT) seventh detective novel, and the first of them, I believe, to be narrated ...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

The Detective Waxed His 'Stache: Some Sidelights on the Fascinating Family of Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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My title, you may have guessed, is indebted to the title of a Peter Lovesey novel.  Do you know which one? As I have written about here in t...
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Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Clue of the Ambergris: Octagon House (1937), Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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"Marina used to brag that she lived in an eight-sided house, with an eight-sided barn....It never mattered then if some other child sai...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Sheila, Take a (Partial) Bow: Sheila Radley's Death and the Maiden (1978) and The Chief Inspector's Daughter (1981)

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The 1970s were a transition period in classic crime fiction, with the Golden Age generation of mystery writers dying off by the year seeming...
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Friday, May 14, 2021

Transitions

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I just noticed in my previous post that the article I published was a modified version of my original Hunt in the Dark introduction, but i...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Murder No Frolic: The Pulp Fiction of Rickie Webb and Hugh Wheeler

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It's not Stephen King but " The Red Balloon " appeared in Weird Tales and it is one of the weirdest tales in the Q. Patrick c...