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 Murders Near Mapleton," by Brian Flynn
25/05/2021 Duración: 04minA local hero is kidnapped, and a shocking murder is only one of many unexpected results. Investigator Anthony Bathurst uncovers the ugly truths that someone is willing to commit murder to hide.
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"The Case of the Seven Sneezes," by Anthony Boucher
03/05/2021 Duración: 05minA private detective and a small group of survivors from a murderous wedding find themselves trapped with an apparently psychotic killer on a remote island, cut off from the world at large.
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"The Condamine Case," by Moray Dalton
27/04/2021 Duración: 05minIt sounded like the perfect story for a movie - a curse still working after 300 years. A macabre twist to a powerful drama - or simply brutal murder?
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"Murder in Married Life," by Anne Morice
19/04/2021 Duración: 05minNice to be newlywed. Not so nice to fight a blackmailer. Anne Morice's "Murder in Married Life," reviewed this week on Classic Mysteries.
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"Death in the Grand Manor," by Anne Morice.
12/04/2021 Duración: 04minClever plotting, pointed dialogue and murder - what more could a reader want?
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"The Lost Gallows," by John Dickson Carr
05/04/2021 Duración: 06minA car driven by a dead man with a cut throat...a lost gallows on a missing London street...John Dickson Carr's second mystery starring Henri Bencolin, "The Lost Gallows," reviewed:
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"Tuesday the Rabbi Took Off," by Harry Kemelman
28/03/2021 Duración: 04minRabbi Small needed a break in his routine. An international bombing incident wasn't what he had in mind.
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"The Case of Sir Adam Braid," by Molly Thynne
22/03/2021 Duración: 04minNearly everyone in his family hated Sir Adam Braid. Only the old man's granddaughter loved him - and the old miser was cutting her out of his will. A motive for murder? Or did someone else hate him enough to kill him? "The Case of Sir Adam Braid," A Golden Age classic by Molly Thynne, reviewed.
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"A Key to Death," by Frances and Richard Lockridge
15/03/2021 Duración: 03minOn the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, Mr. and Mrs. North only want to draw up a new will, but it's their lawyer who gets murdered.
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"Helen Passes By," by E.R. Punshon
08/03/2021 Duración: 04minNewly appointed to Scotland Yard, Bobby Owen finds himself weighing motives, politics and amazing beauty as he hunts for a murderer who might just be an "untouchable" British aristocrat. E.R. Punshon's "Helen Passes By," reviewed.
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"The Mystery of the Blue Train," by Agatha Christie
01/03/2021 Duración: 05minAnother, earlier pre-Orient-Express train ride for Hercule Poirot comes complete with jewel robberies, blackmail, and murder on a luxury train across France.
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"The Laughing Dog," by Francis Vivian
22/02/2021 Duración: 04minOn the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, you might call it a portrait of the artist as a young...dog? Inspector Knollis had to decipher the secret of Francis Vivian's "The Laughing Dog."
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"Murder in Vienna," by E.C.R. Lorac
15/02/2021 Duración: 04minOn the Classic Mysteries blog, Scotland Yard Inspector Macdonald thought he was going on holiday in Vienna. So how did he wind up helping local police investigate some nasty murders? E.C.R. Lorac's "Murder in Vienna," reviewed.
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"The Orange Axe," by Brian Flynn
09/02/2021 Duración: 05minA grim solution to a grim problem: how to deal with a loathsome blackmailer who may also be a serial killer? For half-a-dozen young Englishmen, the answer appears to be a well-plotted murder, one where it will be impossible to tell who struck the fatal blow. Only things may not always go quite as smoothly as planned.
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"Death of a Doxy," by Rex Stout
02/02/2021 Duración: 06minIn Archie Goodwin’s world view, the word that best fits Isabel Kerr is a four-letter word: doxy. The dictionary says, it defines "a woman who is regarded as sexually promiscuous." Only trouble was, Isabel Kerr was dead. Murdered. And – with the police focused on a suspect who is both a friend and sometime colleague of both Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe, it was clear that Wolfe was going to have to get involved in the search for the real killer.
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"Some Die Eloquent," by Catherine Aird
24/01/2021 Duración: 05minThe dead woman was a humble chemistry teacher at a girls' school. So, wonders Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan, why did she have a quarter-million pounds in her bank account? And was she murdered? Catherine Aird's "Some Die Eloquent," from her Calleshire Chronicles reviewed.
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"Unusual Suspects: Selected Non-Fiction," by Joseph Goodrich
18/01/2021 Duración: 08minOn the Classic Mysteries podcast this week, a review of some non-fiction - a book of essays about mysteries and the people who make them. "Unusual Suspects: Selected Non-Fiction," by Joseph Goodrich, reviewed.
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"A Maigret Christmas and Other Stories," by Georges Simenon
11/01/2021 Duración: 06minMaigret stars in one of these holiday stories, while other associates of Maigret feature in two more tales of holiday crime and redemption.
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"Halfway House," by Ellery Queen
04/01/2021 Duración: 04minToo bad about Joe Wilson. The itinerant traveling salesman had a secret. And it’s only fair to point out that it turned out to be a deadly secret indeed – a secret which apparently led to his murder. Ellery Queen needed the truth to keep the wrong person from paying for someone else's crime.
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"The Spiked Lion," by Brian Flynn
07/12/2020 Duración: 05minThe victim's body turned up under a tree in a park, the body unusually battered and bruised – but that’s not what killed him; he appeared to have had potassium cyanide sprayed into his nose. What kind of animal could do that - and why?