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#624: Bob’s Yer Uncle – Locked Room Murders Supplement (2019) ed. Brian Skupin

January 25, 2020January 24, 2020 / JJ / 30 Comments

The reprinting of Robert Adey’s Locked Room Murders (2nd ed., 1991) at the end of 2018 was a delightful turn-up for those of us who had been dreaming of owning that reference bible. And once the excitement settled, I’m sure more than a few people started thinking “Hey, they should really do another one of these…”.

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#612: A Snapshot in the Family Album – Opportune Character Development in Monk Season 2, Episodes 9-16 (2003-2004)

December 28, 2019December 26, 2019 / JJ / 3 Comments

Okay, I’ve made a concerted effort to get on with the second half of this second season of Monk, so how do the cases taken on by OCD-afflicted police consultant Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) and his assistant Sharona Fleming (Bitty Shram) stand up after a slightly disappointing first eight episodes?

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#606: Ooh-Ma, Ooh-Pa – Obvious Creative Divergence in Monk Season 2, Episodes 1-8 (2003)

December 14, 2019December 28, 2019 / JJ / 5 Comments

Thank heavens that the Andy Breckman-created TV series Monk is now finished, because at this rate I’ll probably never finish watching it myself. One and a half seasons down, six and a half to go…how are things shaping up?

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#546: The 10 Types of Impossible Crime – Categories and Titles from Our Talk at Bodies from the Library 2019

June 30, 2019July 3, 2019 / JJ / 26 Comments

After being on something of an enforced hiatus for a little while, The Men Who Explain Miracles, the occasional podcast run by Dan from The Reader is Warned and myself, returned yesterday for a live show at the Bodies from the Library Conference 2019 at the British Library.

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

May 4, 2019March 21, 2020 / 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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#518: The Providential Op – Offbeat Criminal Detection in Monk Season 1 (2002)

April 27, 2019December 28, 2019 / JJ / 17 Comments

Running for 125 episodes over eight seasons from 2002 to 2009, the TV series Monk — created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the eponymous OCD-afflicted detective — was something that had drifted into my awareness without me ever really seeing that much of it. Until now… [cue dramatic music]

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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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