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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
That's next on my list. I've burned through all the John Dickson Carr & Elizabeth Ferrars, and most of the Anthony Berkeley.
Great fun!
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Wow you're way ahead of me.
Kind of OT, but this guy is really cracking me up. I thought the narrator (the nephew) was a nut, but the aunt is just as bad. I can't imagine what direction this thing is going to take.
I was reading about Hull at the Langtail Press website and this pretty much says it all:
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A bold experimenter, Hull often used the first person and peopled his books with unpleasant characters. Although dealing with murder, his novels are generally not of the ordinary detective nature; Hull instead specialized in unusual approaches to narrative. An intriguing and innovative crime novelist...
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(My bolding)
And this was only his first book.