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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I've only just started the series. I'm not planning to read them all, but I wanted to read the first 2-3 to get to know the core characters. The two that have been recommended to me by Martin Edwards are Calamity Town and Ten Days Wonder, so after I've read book 3, I'll try those two. If all five are the same, that will be the end of my Queen experiment.
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Originally Posted by issybird
My two absolute favorite Ellery Queens. What are the odds, given how many there are? Edwards and I must be on the same wavelength.  |
Thanks for the recs ... now I know what to check out when I want to give EQ another try. And both of the books (and many more in the series) are available in my Audible Plus sub
Last weekend I completed the short stories in the
John Thorndyke's Cases collection (only 8 stories) and I liked them a lot, though they weren't overtly reverse mystery. (All the same, I was inspired to watch the first episode of the first season of Columbo
)
Last night I completed
The Fellowship of the Ring and it feels like a milestone after wanting to start on the LotR journey for so long. I enjoyed the adventures so far and would love to jump right into The Two Towers but I have too many books at the 'currently reading' stage right now.
I've been wanting to read Sherlock Holmes without reading Sherlock Holmes; that is, I've been in the mood for SH but afraid to start because I might be tempted to put aside everything and do another read through all the stories and novels. As a compromise, I recently started A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon. I liked the first story (You'd Better Go in Disguise by Alan Bradley); a more animated (taunting?) Holmes than I'm used to (or remember), but the observations leading to the denouement were on point.