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Haunted Objects, Gender and Impossible Poisonings: Salvation of A Saint by Keigo Higashino – The Reader Is Warned
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The Reader Is Warned. Haunted Objects, Gender and Impossible Poisonings: Salvation of A Saint by Keigo Higashino. In recent weeks I have begun making my way through the books of Japanese author Keigo Higashino. Having teared through the brilliantly tense, inverted thriller. The Devotion of Suspect X (2011). Made way for me to read the second in the Detective Galileo series. Salvation of A Saint (2012). I prioritised it as it is also a locked room mystery! Another thing that Higashino does so well in.
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Solve-Along: The Skeleton in the Clock (Part 1) | Complete Disregard for Spoilers
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Complete Disregard for Spoilers. Read This First To Remain Unspoilt. Solve-Along: The Skeleton in the Clock (Part 1). Solve-Along time, I reckon. If you haven’t read one of these before, I write up my thoughts on a mystery as I go along, and try and solve it before the end. To avoid devastating people with spoilers, I try to pick books that are very obscure or have had poor reviews. This time, it’s Carter Dickson’s. The Skeleton in the Clock. If what you say is true, what. By purest coincidence, Pentecos...
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#188: Five to Try – Debunked Séances in Detective Fiction | The Invisible Event
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Classic detective fiction and locked room mysteries. 188: Five to Try – Debunked Séances in Detective Fiction. January 7, 2017. January 25, 2017. Check Ghostly disembodied hand? Check Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let’s call this meeting to order…. Following a recent post on John Dickson Carr’s The Lost Gallows over at The Green Capsule. I was reminded of just how much I love a séance in fiction. Now, to be clear, I’m with Charlie Brooker on psychics and other such manipulative awfulness. I know, right?
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Solve-Along: The Skeleton in the Clock (Part 2) | Complete Disregard for Spoilers
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Complete Disregard for Spoilers. Read This First To Remain Unspoilt. Solve-Along: The Skeleton in the Clock (Part 2). Time for the second part of my Solve-Along for The Skeleton in the Clock. Part one can be found here. The heat of strained feelings was as palpable in the other room as its atmosphere of beer and old stone. No clue as to how it might have been achieved at this point, but if I had to accuse anyone right now it would be Ricky or Jenny. They were children at the time, and that’s always a...
