Classic Mysteries
- Autor: Vários
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Sinopsis
Short reviews of classic mystery novels and stories that are worth reading and re-reading.
Episodios
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"Good by Stealth," by Henrietta Clandon
24/02/2020 Duración: 06minMiss Edna Alice only wants to improve her neighbors' morals and behavior. How could those ignorant local authorities believe her anonymous notes to those neighbors, pointing out their moral failings, are "poisoned pen" letters? A true masterpiece of very dark humor.
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"The Art School Murders," by Moray Dalton
17/02/2020 Duración: 04minAt first, it looked like red paint on the floor of the artists' studio - until the first body was discovered.
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"The Case of the Housekeeper's Hair," by Christopher Bush
13/02/2020 Duración: 05minInvestigator Ludovic Travers was uneasy about that promised murder - but could he keep it from coming true?
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"Curtains for Three," by Rex Stout
04/02/2020 Duración: 05minThree puzzling cases to be solved by the sedentary Nero Wolfe and his right-hand, wisecracking assistant, Archie Goodwin.
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"The Measure of Malice," ed. by Martin Edwards
26/01/2020 Duración: 07minMeet the masters of the scientific skills essential for investigating crime. Fourteen short stories, selected and introduced by Martin Edwards.
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"The Death of Mr. Lomas," by Francis Vivian
19/01/2020 Duración: 05minMr. Lomas told the police that he was being poisoned. The Chief Constable thought it was nonsense - until Mr. Lomas's body was discovered the next morning.
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"The Phantom of the Opera," by Gaston Leroux
12/01/2020 Duración: 07minWho is the mysterious "Angel of Music" living underneath the Paris Opera House? And why is he obsessively fascinated with Christine Daaè and her beautiful voice? The original novel that led to the play which has become the longest-running musical on Broadway.
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"Fell Murder," by E.C.R. Lorac
06/01/2020 Duración: 05min"This crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other."
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"Bodies From the Library 2," ed. by Tony Medawar
30/12/2019 Duración: 05minAnother collection of little-known mystery stories by such icons of Golden Age mystery fiction as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Marjorie Allingham and Edmund Crispin
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"The Monkey and the Tiger," by Robert Van Gulik
22/12/2019 Duración: 05minTwo stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger," mysteries resolved by Judge Dee involving theft, banditry and murder.
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"Saturday The Rabbi Went Hungry," by Harry Kemelman
15/12/2019 Duración: 05minOn Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Rabbi David Small finds the hidden key to trapping a killer.
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"A Six-Letter Word for Death," by Patricia Moyes
09/12/2019 Duración: 04minWritten well after the end of the British Golden Age of Detection, "A Six-Letter Word for Death" manages to combine a puzzle-plot mystery (with a real crossword puzzle to be solved), a classic "country house" mystery and a secret "club" of authors, all tied together with a good murder.
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"Fer-de-Lance," by Rex Stout
02/12/2019 Duración: 05minIt took Nero Wolfe to demonstrate to police that a mysterious death was actually a case of murder. And that's when life became dangerous for Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
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"The Body in the Dumb River," by George Bellairs
24/11/2019 Duración: 05minJames Teasdale was living a second life running a carnival game when he was murdered - and his respectable family knew nothing about it until it ended with a knife in the back.
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"A Surfeit of Suspects," by George Bellairs
18/11/2019 Duración: 05minThe explosion that killed 3 men had plenty of possible suspects. What it seemed to lack was any reason for the explosion. Superintendent Littlejohn and Inspector Cromwell would have to chase down an elusive motive for a shadowy killer.
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"The Allingham Minibus," by Margery Allingham
10/11/2019 Duración: 04minEighteen stories, including a few starring Allingham's regular detective, Albert Campion. All the stories have the wit and style readers have come to enjoy in Allingham's books.
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"The Chinese Orange Mystery," by Ellery Queen
05/11/2019 Duración: 05minThe murder was apparently impossible, taking place in a locked and bolted room. And when they broke into that room, everything in the room - including the victim's clothes - had been turned backwards.
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"Nine Times Nine", by Anthony Boucher
27/10/2019 Duración: 06minThe charismatic cult leader was seen through a window apparently murdering his victim - but when police broke in, only the body of his victim was there.
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"Death Has Deep Roots," by Michael Gilbert
21/10/2019 Duración: 05minAs a Resistance fighter, Victoria Lamartine escaped from the Gestapo during World War II. Could she now escape from a charge of murder?
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"Murder in the Mill-Race," by E.C.R. Lorac
05/10/2019 Duración: 05minWhy were the town's residents so determined not to reveal the secrets about Sister Monica to the strangers investigating the murder?