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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
The Gilded Man - Carter Dickson
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Sheer chance led me to choose The Gilded Man as my final read for 2025. And waddya know? The book takes place on Dec 29-31, 1938 (even thou...
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Friday, February 14, 2014
FFB: My Late Wives - Carter Dickson
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"If there's any flumdiddling of the police to be done, I'm the one to do it." --Sir Henry Merrivale in My Late Wives ...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Department of Queer Complaints - Carter Dickson
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This is the only short story collection featuring "Carter Dickson's" (aka John Dickson Carr) lesser known detective Colonel Ma...
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Death in Five Boxes - Carter Dickson
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Here's another greatly under appreciated book in the Sir Henry Merrivale series. This has -- flat out -- the best opening of any of the...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Reader Is Warned - Carter Dickson
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Sir Henry Merrivale has no patience for frauds. But he's up against a singularly delusional fraud in The Reader is Warned . Herman Penni...
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