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Forum: GAD September 1st, 2010, 08:11 AM
Replies: 15
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Posted By awrobins
Re: Anthony Boucher

www.bookfinder.com shows plenty of copies of EXEUNT MURDERERS available, from $4.32 up.
Forum: Agatha Christie August 24th, 2010, 01:21 PM
Replies: 153
Views: 17,031
Posted By awrobins
Re: Your top five Agatha Christie novels?

“Spider’s Web” is the one with the golf club. The international intrigue in Cat Among the Pigeons is rather silly, but I found the book entertaining once it moved to the school setting. Yes, “The...
Forum: General August 16th, 2010, 02:00 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 341
Posted By awrobins
Re: Train mysteries

I got lucky on this one—I got a paperback (Albatross) reprint for $14.19 (including shipping) a few years ago. A hardcover reprint showed up for £30 a few years ago; I mentioned it here (...
Forum: Agatha Christie July 5th, 2010, 03:51 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 883
Posted By awrobins
Re: And Then There Were...Others

Actually, the murderer in AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is


Miss Marple. She posed as Emily Brent (nobody else on the island knew the real Emily Brent), murdered the other nine, forged Wargrave’s...
Forum: General May 6th, 2010, 02:52 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,181
Posted By awrobins
Re: Memorable Clues

There are many memorable clues, but one that sticks in my mind is from Carr's The Problem of the Green Capsule.


A man is murdered while a member of the "audience" is making a film. The...
Forum: General May 5th, 2010, 01:46 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 762
Posted By awrobins
Re: Cruise ship mysteries

For beginners, there's

DEATH ON THE NILE, by Agatha Christie

THE WIDOW'S CRUISE, by Nicholas Blake

TOUR DE FORCE, by Christianna Brand

(though you may know about these already).
Forum: Collecting Mysteries March 27th, 2010, 02:55 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 3,541
Posted By awrobins
Re: Hangman's Handyman Times Two

Another copy of Hangman's Handyman has just shown up on abebooks. It's not in great coniditon--ex-library, food with a fair dustjacket--but iconsidering the next cheapest hardcover copies in...
Forum: Sir Henry Merrivale Books February 23rd, 2010, 12:52 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 3,449
Posted By awrobins
Re: He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)

Where is your library? In the US, UK, or elsewhere? I'm a librarian who does some interlibrary loan, and it looks as if both of these should be fairly easy to obtain on interlibrary loan in the US...
Forum: Edmund Crispin February 13th, 2010, 09:20 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 513
Posted By awrobins
Fen novels

Here, as threatened long ago, are my capsule reviews/ratings of Edmund Crispin’s novels featuring Gervase Fen. As always, they reflect my opinions, and I know that some people whose opinions I...
Forum: GAD February 12th, 2010, 08:31 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,095
Posted By awrobins
Re: Golden Age Mysteries and, well, reality

U.N. Owen reports having had a pleasant and stimulating weekend. His guests are unavailable for comment.
Forum: GAD January 17th, 2010, 02:51 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 403
Posted By awrobins
Re: Who are the essentials?

I don’t think we’ve ever discussed this, and I’m interested in this topic, since I’m a librarian.

I don’t know of any list specifically of classic mysteries for librarians, but there is a...
Forum: Sir Henry Merrivale Books December 12th, 2009, 07:24 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,188
Posted By awrobins
Re: The Red Widow Murders (1935)

Yes, Carr's victims tend to be very obliging fellows. Another of his novels inspired me to write this imaginary conversation between murderer and would-be victim:

"I want your help in an...
Forum: Sir Henry Merrivale Books December 3rd, 2009, 08:49 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,103
Posted By awrobins
Re: The White Priory Murders (1934)

This is the best way to read them, especially since in a couple of books (notably SEEING IS BELIEVING), Carr gives away solutions to previous books in the series. Also, some of the comments in THE...
Forum: Sir Henry Merrivale Books November 14th, 2009, 06:56 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,781
Posted By awrobins
Re: Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)

I liked the first part of it a lot, but thought it became a little silly towards the end in its attempts at comedy; also, I thought the "solution" to the Widow appearing in Joan Bailey's room was a...
Forum: Collecting Mysteries October 30th, 2009, 03:53 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 671
Posted By awrobins
Book of Hill School Verse (includes poems by Carr)

This isn't a mystery, but I believe it's the first publication of anything by John Dickson Carr (certainly in book form). He contributed six or seven poems to this, and it's just shown up on...
Forum: Collecting Mysteries October 15th, 2009, 04:45 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 423
Posted By awrobins
New at Ninepence

Just in case anyone is collecting the Hodder & Stoughton NEW AT NINEPENCE series (I know Carter Dickson's THE THIRD BULLET in the series is rare, and I believe at least one other in the series is--by...
Forum: General September 12th, 2009, 05:57 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 4,938
Posted By awrobins
Re: I started a blog

Thanks for the quiz! I got 70%, but had to guess on several and got lucky at least a couple of times.

The John Dickson Carr question probably depends on your definition. If I remember correctly...
Forum: General September 9th, 2009, 03:34 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 621
Posted By awrobins
Re: Anyone Else Enjoy Monk?

Yes, this series is a lot of fun. It was discussed a while ago:

http://jdcarr.com/forum/printthread.php?t=225&page=1&pp=15

Generally the acting is excellent, the dialogue is good, but the...
Forum: Agatha Christie August 18th, 2009, 08:46 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,246
Posted By awrobins
Re: Why is Agatha Christie still in print?

Well, first of all, some people don't want to read about alcoholic policemen tracking serial killers; they want a cosy story that doesn't give detailed descriptions of mutilated and putrefying...
Forum: Agatha Christie August 13th, 2009, 01:48 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 2,163
Posted By awrobins
Re: Why do TV-makers destroy Christie's plots?

Archer can correct me if I'm misinterpreting him, but I think he's referring to Shaffer's dropping some subplots (e.g., the terrorist known to be on board) and omitting some characters (Tim Allerton...
Forum: Chritianna Brand February 28th, 2009, 06:49 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,597
Posted By awrobins
Re: Brand's best

This is true--once you've read a few books by an author (Christie, Carr, Blake, Leo Bruce etc.), it's easier to recognize the author's modus operandi and to guess at least the identity of the...
Forum: John Dickson Carr February 28th, 2009, 06:28 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 4,210
Posted By awrobins
Re: The Three Coffins

I’m answering this a little late…five years, to be exact…

Some of Clayton Rawson’s books were published in the UK, by Collins; I have the Collins edition of his DEATH IN A TOP HAT, and I see that...
Forum: John Dickson Carr February 14th, 2009, 05:52 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 4,956
Posted By awrobins
Re: What's the best JohnDickson Carr book

I can't believe I haven't responded before.

I find it easier to list my favorites than the ones I consider the best, but here’s an attempt at an objective list (highly debatable):

1) He Who...
Forum: GAD November 6th, 2008, 08:54 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 2,095
Posted By awrobins
Re: Golden Age Mysteries and, well, reality

This is an interesting idea. Let's all get together at my secluded country house in Dartmoor on Friday, 9 January 2009, to discuss this. Please arrive by 5 p.m., since the house will be cut off...
Forum: General September 9th, 2008, 01:28 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 5,385
Posted By awrobins
Re: 10 Best GAM short stories

Damn! So much for the detective story I was planning to write involving twin Chinamen who prepare a deathray that shoots a poison unknown to science. I’ll have to fall back on my secondary plot,...
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