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Old 04-08-2011, 02:48 PM   #8864
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc View Post
I'm having a ball reading classic mysteries now released as ebooks from Langtail Press and in pbook from Rue Morgue press.

John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson) really did cover the entire breadth of "locked room mysteries" and "impossible murders" - sometimes going to great extremes to explain the inexplicable. The solution to the murder in "The Crooked Hinge" is the most extreme attempt yet to explain how a man could be murdered in plain view of witnesses - none of whom saw the murderer.

Spoiler:
The murderer lost his legs when the Titanic sank, and had prosthetic legs he could remove and scuttle about below eye level.


I shall continue on, with a liberal helping of Nero Wolfe to add spice to this heady experience.
I'm having the same ball! I'm done reading all of the John Dickson Carr books from the Langtail Press and have gone on reading Halfway House by Ellery Queen. Though Ellery Queen is good, Carr is better, so I'm waiting in great anticipation for the next batch of books from The Langtail Press. This publisher is the best thing that has happened admirerers of the classic detective story in years, as they bring back books that have been too long out of print and almost impossible to get. I'm only hoping for a renessance of Quentin Patrick as well. Does anybody know of ebooks by Quentin Patrick (AKA. Patrick Quentin, AKA. Jonathan Stagge)?
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