The Castle Island Case

The Castle Island Case

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• Sunday, March 20, 2022

  The Castle Island Case (1937) by F. Van Wyck Mason [pictures by Henry Clay Gipson] Major Roger Allenby, ex-Army Intelligence and current ...

The Man in the Moonlight

The Man in the Moonlight

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  The Man in the Moonlight (1940) by Helen McCloy The Man in the Moonlight is one of my favorite subgenres in mysteries--the academic myste...

Inspector's Holiday

Inspector's Holiday

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• Wednesday, March 16, 2022

  Inspector's Holiday (1971) by Richard Lockridge Inspector M. L. Heimrich and his wife Susan are booked for a leisurely Mediterranean ...

The Mystery of the Talking Skull

The Mystery of the Talking Skull

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• Tuesday, March 15, 2022

  The Mystery of the Talking Skull (1969) by Robert Arthur Jupiter Jones, chief investigator of The Three Investigators detective agency, d...

The Devil in Music

The Devil in Music

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• Monday, March 14, 2022

  The Devil in Music (1997) by Kate Ross In a flashback to four years ago, Ross starts the story with Lodovico Malvezzi, an autocratic Ital...

Murder Roundabout (spoilerish)

Murder Roundabout (spoilerish)

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• Saturday, March 12, 2022

  Murder Roundabout (1966) by Richard Lockridge The lovely Annette Weaver ( née  LeBaron, film star) had thrown a picnic on the Fourth of J...