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#1012: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The Result

January 7, 2023January 2, 2023 / JJ / 14 Comments

We started back in August, with readers of this blog nominating sleuths of their choosing to be put into a series of gladiatorial head-to-heads that would result in an overall favourite from detective fiction’s Golden Age, and finally, in January, we have our winner.

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#1010: A Reading Round-Up for 2022

December 31, 2022December 30, 2022 / JJ / 10 Comments

I last did one of these posts at the end of 2017, and have been rather too busy talking about books to concentrate on such details since, but thought it might be interesting to unpack my reading over 2022 as a way of seeing the year out.

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#1007: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The Final!

December 24, 2022January 7, 2023 / JJ / 15 Comments

It’s all been leading to this.

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#1001: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The Semi-Finals

December 11, 2022December 9, 2022 / JJ / 17 Comments

It’s getting very exciting now.

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#1000: A Locked Room Library – One Hundred Recommended Books

December 10, 2022January 28, 2023 / JJ / 75 Comments

In the back of my mind when I started The Invisible Event was the idea that exactly half of what I’d post about would feature impossible crimes, locked room mysteries, and/or miracle problems — and although this proportion started an irreversible slide after the first 500 or so posts, the impossible crime remains my first love.

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#994: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – The Quarter-Finals

November 26, 2022December 11, 2022 / JJ / 12 Comments

We approach the sharp end of things now, with 64 names reduced now to a mere eight, and only three rounds of voting before the legally-binding World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth is crowned.

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#985: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – Round 3

November 5, 2022November 26, 2022 / JJ / 21 Comments

And then there were 16…

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#976: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – Round 2

October 15, 2022November 5, 2022 / JJ / 32 Comments

And then there were 32 — the first round of this vote to find the most popular sleuth of detective fiction’s Golden Age having whittled the original 64 names down to half that number, and the votes available for one week from today due to halve it again. So, who survived and who is out of the running?

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#973: Cover Stars – Jo Walker on The Tattoo Murder (1948) by Akimitsu Takagi [Pushkin Vertigo 2022 edition]

October 8, 2022October 18, 2022 / JJ / 8 Comments

You may remember — and I won’t blame you if you don’t — that back in October 2019 I was lucky enough to get cover designer Abi Salvesen to explain her process in researching and creating the covers for two John Dickson Carr reprints put out by Polygon Books.

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#967: The World’s Favourite Golden Age Sleuth – Round 1, Bottom Half

September 24, 2022October 15, 2022 / JJ / 15 Comments

Right, you probably know the drill by now: 100+ sleuths nominated, top 64 chosen, the top half of 32 already voted on…today you’re voting on the bottom half of the first round.

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