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Originally Posted by wayrad
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
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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.