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Old 10-30-2008, 09:30 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by wayrad View Post
Oh, and some more -

Michael Innes: more literary allusions than you can shake a stick at.

Edmund Crispin: classic English mysteries, ingenious plotting, eccentric characters.

Gladys Mitchell: detective is psychologist Beatrice LeStrange Bradley, early novels parody other Golden Age writers
I too am very fond of these and have complete sets of all of them, except Gladys Mitchell, where i have about tho-thirds of her output. Unfortunately they are all on paper.

I would also add that John Dickson Carr was particularly strong on the locked-room mystery. His detective, Dr Gideon Fell, is a historian and lexicographer. Edmund Crispin's Professor Gervaise Fen frequently mentions Dr Fell.
I would start with 'The Hollow Man', also published under the title, 'The Three Coffins.' This includes a lecture on locked-room mysteries.
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