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#558: Spoiler Warning – Coming in October: Postern of Fate (1973) by Agatha Christie

July 27, 2019September 1, 2019 / JJ / 39 Comments

With the most recent Spoiler Warning post now out in the wild — it’s on The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin if you’re interested — it’s time to prepare for the next.

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#552: Spoiler Warning 11 – The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin

July 13, 2019July 9, 2019 / JJ / 35 Comments

We are here today to discuss The Moving Toyshop (1946) — Edmund Crispin’s third novel to feature his Oxford University don detective Gervase Fen — in full, spoiler-rich style…proceed no further if you wish read this book without knowing, y’know, everything that happens.

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#524: Spoiler Warning – Coming in July: The Moving Toyshop (1946) by Edmund Crispin

May 11, 2019May 9, 2019 / JJ / 5 Comments

So, with the most recent Spoiler Warning on Tantei Gakuen Q/Detective School Q done, here’s news of the next one…

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#521: Spoiler Warning 10 – Tantei Gakuen Q/Detective School Q: ‘The Kamikakushi Village Murder Case’ (2003)

May 4, 2019April 30, 2019 / JJ / 36 Comments

Apologies, we’re a bit late — there were some hold-ups on my end of things — but here at last are the thoughts of the blogosphere’s resident impossible crime expert TomCat and myself on ‘The Kamikakushi Village Murder Case’, part of the Tantei Gakuen Q (Detective Academy Q) anime based on the manga of the same name.

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#494: Spoiler Warning – Coming in April: Tantei Gakuen Q/Detective School Q: ‘The Kamikakushi Village Murder Case’ (2003)

February 2, 2019April 30, 2019 / JJ / 13 Comments

If last week’s spoiler-heavy post on Mr. Priestley’s Problem, a.k.a. The Amateur Crime by Anthony Berkeley seemed rather like an invite to a party for which you did not possess the necessary shoes to get past the bouncers, well, TomCat is here to even up the balance a bit…

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#491: Spoiler Warning 9 – Mr. Priestley’s Problem, a.k.a. The Amateur Crime (1927) by Anthony Berkeley [a.p.a. by A.B. Cox]

January 26, 2019January 22, 2019 / JJ / 2 Comments

Here we go again, with the usual warnings: this post discusses in spoiler-heavy detail elements of the plot of Mr. Priestley’s Problem, a.k.a. The Amateur Crime (1927) by Anthony Berkeley, also published under the name of A.B. Cox.

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#446: Spoiler Warning 8 – Halfway House (1936) by Ellery Queen

October 13, 2018February 20, 2019 / JJ / 68 Comments

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our respects to the detective fiction novel Halfway House (1936) written by Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay under their Ellery Queen nom de plume. As the title suggests, there will be spoilers — lots and lots of spoilers, so only proceed if you’ve done the necessary pre-reading…

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