The Hollow Man | 
pickSomewhere I read that this was rated the number 1 locked room mystery of all time, so of course, I had to read it. Many parts were riveting, but the ending was too much of an explanation/reveal. I wish more of the clues had come out during the story instead of magically at the end. Chapter 17 was BRILLIANT--basically a lecture on how to create a locked room mystery. A how-to inside a whodunit. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE remains the best IMHO.
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I absolutely loved this, and it‘s totally out of my wheelhouse! I can‘t describe too much for fear of giving away the mystery, but suffice it to say it was a delight to follow Fell and the others as they pieced everything together. I‘m definitely going to have to hunt down the rest of this series.
(Sometimes published under the title The Hollow Man)
My first spot in #AutumnBingo2022
And my May #Bookspin (better late than never! 😅)
Came across this in my book. I find it both interesting and sad. It‘s a copy published in 1976 that was discarded from a library. These pages still being together tells me that not a single soul has read it in all that time. 🥺
Finally finished what had been called one of the best locked room mysteries of all time, for the Golden Age #cloakanddaggerchristmas prompt. It was nice to finally read Carr, and I ultimately quite liked it, but the sub-genre, in general, might be a little too cerebral for me to really love.
pickIt's been ages since I read a mystery. I forgot how like a puzzle they are. This one was fun, sexist as one might expect for the period, but clever.
It wasn't at the library so I bought it from Thriftbooks, and it had this presumably old bookmark in it (old enough for a 7-digit phone number, at least, and I couldn't find the shop when I searched online...a little detective work of my own). I ❤️ old bookmarks.
All of us are in grouchy moods today (I blame yesterday's flu shots and subsequent immune response), so I'm hanging out with a mystery and our garden gnome. It's hard to focus on a London mystery on a stereotypical SoCal day, though.
"To the murder of Professor Grimaud, and later the equally incredible crime in Cagliostro Street, many fantastic terms could be applied---with reason."
I'm not sure mysteries are my thing, but I'll keep giving this one a try. (I'm reading the US edition entitled The Three Coffins. No idea why they felt it needed a different title for the US.)
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