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Golden Age Mysteries: Further Reading

With my Detection Club Bingo card now blacked out, I’m going to track my reading here.  (Note: for purposes of completeness, this includes books by the below authors already read prior to the creation of this list.)  My priorities are going to be: Arthur Conan Doyle’s / Sherlock Holmes’s adventures, biographies, contemporaries and rivals, as […]

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Detection Club Bingo: My Progress So Far

Whee — only two squres to go for blackout!   The Squares / Chapters: 1. A New Era Dawns: Ernest Bramah – The Tales of Max Carrados; Emmuska Orczy – The Old Man in the Corner 2. The Birth of the Golden Age: A.A. Milne – The Red House Mystery 3. The Great Detectives: Margery […]

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Detection Club Bingo: My Progress So Far

  Chapter 1, A New Era Dawns: Ernest Bramah – The Tales of Max Carrados Chapter 5, Miraculous Mysteries: Anthony Wynne – Murder of a Lady Project Pages and Other Related Blog Posts: Detection Club Bingo Project Page Penultimate Detection Club Bingo Progress Post My Final Two Detection Club Bingo Reads Golden Age Mysteries: Further […]

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Anthony Wynne: Murder of a Lady

The Babes in the … Loch? Well, this was a fun read. Anthony Wynne (real name: Robert McNair Wilson), Martin Edwards informs us in this book’s preface and in The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books, was the long-standing medical correspondent of The Times; a man with many and varied interests which, in addition […]

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Anthony Wynne: Murder of a Lady – Reading Progress Update: 180 of 288 Pages

Well done on your response to the odious Inspector Barley’s interview, Eoghan.  That was admirable (even if predictably ultimately futile), and it makes me hope that you and your immediate family will come out of these strange events OK and with possibly even a hope for a better future. I’m not buying into any of […]

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Anthony Wynne: Murder of a Lady – Reading Progress Update: 84 of 288 Pages

Hmmm.  Seems I’ve gotten to the novel’s first major game-changing point, so it’s as well to take a break here.  So far I’m loving it — how inconceivable that this book should have been buried beneath the sands of time for the better part of a century.  Thanks and kudos to Martin Edwards and the […]

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“Murder of a Lady” Buddy Read: Setting the Scene

So, a small picture insert on the book’s back cover informs us that the stunning front cover of Murder of a Lady is taken from an old advertisement poster for Tarbert Hotel on Loch Lomond.  (This isn’t the only book where the British Library does this sort of mini “front cover source reveal” on the […]

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