Classic Mysteries
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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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"The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye," by Brian Flynn
04/10/2019 Duración: 06minThe Crown Prince was being blackmailed, a young woman was murdered while at the dentist's - and a mysterious gem known as the Peacock's Eye Different threads leading to an unknown destination.
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"The Christmas Card Crime," Martin Edwards, ed.
28/09/2019 Duración: 07minMartin Edwards selects eleven classic short mystery stories, most from the Golden Age of English Detective Fiction, to provide some sinister holiday fare.
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"A Puzzle for Fools," by Patrick Quentin
22/09/2019 Duración: 04minHearing a warning of murder can be unnerving. Hearing it in your own voice could push you into insanity.
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"The Case of the Fighting Soldier," by Christopher Bush
15/09/2019 Duración: 05minDid tension between regular army officers and "fighting" officers lead to murder?
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"Death in Dark Glasses," by George Bellairs
08/09/2019 Duración: 05minIt began with a minor embezzlement - but it ended with disappearances and multiple murders.
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"N or M?" by Agatha Christie
01/09/2019 Duración: 05minIn this Agatha Christie thriller, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford must identify two Nazi spies known only as "N" and "M" who are plotting the German invasion of England during World War II.
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"Rocket to the Morgue," by Anthony Boucher
25/08/2019 Duración: 06minThe victim was stabbed inside a locked and bolted room, and witnesses insisted nobody could have entered - or left - the room. Police Lt. Marshall needs help from an inquisitive nun, Sister Ursula, to uncover the truth.
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"The Case of the Careless Kitten," by Erle Stanley Gardner
18/08/2019 Duración: 05minBanker Franklin Shore had run away from his wife a decade ago. Now somebody claiming to be Franklin Shore was on the phone, asking a family member to help him meet with lawyer Perry Mason. Unfortunately, murder intervened.
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"The Two Tickets Puzzle," by J. J. Connington
11/08/2019 Duración: 05minOswald Preston was a very unpleasant man. But was that sufficient reason to murder him on the train?
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"The Dutch Shoe Mystery," by Ellery Queen
01/08/2019 Duración: 05minThe millionaire philanthropist died on her way to the operating room - strangled while waiting for the surgery. Ellery Queen realized that in order to determine the WHO, he'd need to uncover both the WHY and the HOW.
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"The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel," by Christopher Bush
28/07/2019 Duración: 05minThe head of a critical military research team disappears, followed by murder. But there's more to Colonel Brende's abduction, and it could affect Britain's chances for survival in World War II.
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"Maigret and the Headless Corpse," by Georges Simenon
21/07/2019 Duración: 05minThe body of a headless corpse turns up in a Parisian canal, and Inspector Maigret must find out who was killed - and why.
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"The Mad Hatter Mystery," by John Dickson Carr
15/07/2019 Duración: 05minSomeone is stealing hats and other headgear - top hats, barrister's wigs and such - and leaving them in strangely appropriate places. Surely leaving one on top of a murder victim's body was not appropriate?
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"An Author Bites the Dust," by Arthur Upfield
07/07/2019 Duración: 06minThe great Australian author Mervyn Blake is dead - and nobody knows what killed him. But DI Napoleon Bonaparte will find a most unusual way for a determined murderer to kill.
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"The Return of Mr. Campion," by Margery Allingham
30/06/2019 Duración: 03minMore than a dozen short stories, many featuring Margery Allingham's most popular character, Albert Campion, including several of her earliest tales.
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"Charity Ends at Home," by Colin Watson
24/06/2019 Duración: 05minThere’s an awful lot going on behind the closed doors of Flaxborough – lots of greed and corruption, and the usual assortment of sexual peccadilloes not to mention possible fraud on the part of various dubious charities - and, of course, murder.
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"A Knife for Harry Dodd," by George Bellairs
07/06/2019 Duración: 04minInspector Littlejohn knew he had to find a solution quickly before a determined murderer could strike again.
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"Bodies from the Library," ed. by Tony Medawar
29/05/2019 Duración: 08minSixteen short stories, all virtually unknown, by some of the finest and best-known writers of Britain's Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
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"Music Tells All," by E.R. Punshon
26/05/2019 Duración: 05minDid the powerful piano music played by their neighbor hold the secret of two murders?
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"Maigret Goes to School," by Georges Simenon
19/05/2019 Duración: 05minMaigret takes time off from work to investigate a murder on his own, to help a schoolteacher who traveled to Paris to enlist Maigret's aid.