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Originally Posted by Patricia
I too would love to have all of Edmund Crispin's work. To be honest, I don't particularly like The Moving Toyshop, but am very fond of all the others.
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me too. i bought "The Case of the Gilded Fly" (it's the first Gervase Fen mystery, i thought i'd read them in order) based on one review alone : it said Edmund Crispin was the heir to John Dickson Carr and Groucho Marx, and i thought "now there is an author i will love." but to be honest i'm having a hard time getting through it because... it's in paper.
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Originally Posted by Talldog
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man
Erle Stanley Gardner - all of the Perry Mason books
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oh, two more of my favourites !!! i'll second those. particularly as my paperback of "the thin man" is in a lamentable state. and probably older than i am. and all those dusty old ES Gardner (and AA Fair, let's not forget him !) paperbacks are taking up a LOT of space on my shelves !
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
Daithi mentioned "The Nine Taylors". I'd actually like to have all of the Dorothy Sayers "Lord Peter Wimsey" books for Kindle. "Whose Body" and "Clouds of Witness" are available, but not the rest.
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Dorothy Sayers is in the public domain in Australia now, I'm rather surprised the rest of her books haven't popped up on PG Australia yet. we've got "Strong Poison" and a couple of short stories here as well, for those of you in Life+50 countries.
my own list, besides those above, would include tons of french authors, like Fred Vargas, Boris Vian, Raymond Queneau, Léo Malet, Muriel Barbery, and also authors like Alessandro Baricco ("Novecento, pianiste", "les châteaux de la colère", "City"... all of them, really. in french please), Tonino Benacquista, Ionesco...
there are plenty more but i'll stop there so as not to depress myself any further.