Here’s a question for you: at what point did the Five Find-Outers series by Enid Blyton peak?
Continue reading#729: Minor Felonies – The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat (1949) by Enid Blyton
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#726: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 7: The Detective-as-Criminal
I hope I’ll finish this undertaking before another year passes, but with the end of November upon us this is my last post on the Knox Decalogue for this year. So, what have we got?
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#720: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 5: No Chinamen
Okay, now we get down to it, the one rule of Ronald Knox’s Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction that people actually know. Or think they do.
Continue reading#717: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 4: Undiscovered Poisons
It was, by pure chance, this time last year that I started a series of posts examining Ronald Knox’s Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction rule-by-rule and, well, we’re back to continue what I started. Woo?
Continue reading#690: Minor Felonies – Alfred Hitchcock’s Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries [ss] (1963): ‘The Mystery of the Four Quarters’ by Robert Arthur
For the fifth and final Tuesday in June — holy hell, that means the year is practically half over — the fifth and final story in this collection.
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#687: Minor Felonies – Alfred Hitchcock’s Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries [ss] (1963): ‘The Mystery of the Man Who Evaporated’ by Robert Arthur
Having previously read two fabulous impossible crime stories by Robert Arthur, I was especially eager to see what he’d cooked up for this week’s tale.
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#684: Minor Felonies – Alfred Hitchcock’s Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries [ss] (1963): ‘The Mystery of the Three Blind Mice’ by Robert Arthur
Last week we had the shortest mystery in this collection, this week it’s the longest.
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#681: Minor Felonies – Alfred Hitchcock’s Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries [ss] (1963): ‘The Mystery of the Seven Wrong Clocks’ by Robert Arthur
The Invisible Event 