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my recent vintage crime reading
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dfordoomMy recent vintage crime reading:
Christopher Bush's The Case of the Tudor Queen - surprisingly good 1938 murder mystery, rather in the Freeman Wills Crofts style.
Anthony Berkeley's The Poisoned Chocolates Case - golden age detective fiction at its wittiest and most inventive. Published in 1929.
Erle Stanley Gardner’s pulp fiction - before creating Perry Mason Gardner wrote some fine hardboiled pulp crime fiction.
Rex Stout’s The Red Box - a 1937 Nero Wolfe mystery. Great fun.
Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me, Deadly - better than the overrated and pompous film version.
John Dickson Carr’s The Department of Queer Complaints - Colonel March of Scotland Yard investigates cases too weird for ordinary detectives to solve.
Rufus King’s Murder on the Yacht - published in 1932, another of King's delightful maritime mysteries.
Christopher Bush's The Case of the Tudor Queen - surprisingly good 1938 murder mystery, rather in the Freeman Wills Crofts style.
Anthony Berkeley's The Poisoned Chocolates Case - golden age detective fiction at its wittiest and most inventive. Published in 1929.
Erle Stanley Gardner’s pulp fiction - before creating Perry Mason Gardner wrote some fine hardboiled pulp crime fiction.
Rex Stout’s The Red Box - a 1937 Nero Wolfe mystery. Great fun.
Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me, Deadly - better than the overrated and pompous film version.
John Dickson Carr’s The Department of Queer Complaints - Colonel March of Scotland Yard investigates cases too weird for ordinary detectives to solve.
Rufus King’s Murder on the Yacht - published in 1932, another of King's delightful maritime mysteries.
