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Anthony Berkeley
Birth date: July 05, 1893
Died: March 09, 1971
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 5 years ago
This collection of short stories from various Golden Age mystery writers was a mixed bag. I mean, they all are but this one struck me as more so than others. Maybe this was because there was no overarching theme to this collection. And it somehow felt as if the story by Agatha Christie was only ad...
Locus Amoenus: All By My Shelf
Locus Amoenus: All By My Shelf rated it 6 years ago
This is a hard book to review, because its very nature means that it will have certain unavoidable imperfections. By passing the manuscript around to have chapters added instead of collaborating on a complete piece, it's impossible to predict where the plot will go. Of course, that also makes it i...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 6 years ago
What an interesting and fun experiment this must have been for the members of the Detection Club to write a mystery - in full compliance with club rules - where one author built on the previous chapters but without having a collective idea about what the plot should be. As much as I loved seeing ...
Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it 6 years ago
This collaborative mystery is not to be taken seriously. While I got quite a kick out of it, it's a good thing that the members of The Detection Club didn't really make a habit of this - there are a total of three of these collaborative mysteries, each with a different spin. At the end of the day,...
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it 6 years ago
Well, this was a reread for me and I said I was going to "tag along" with MR's, BT's and Lillelara's buddy read -- turns out I ended up whizzing through it because I liked it so much better this time around than when I first read it. In part, this is doubtlessly due to David Timson's audio narrati...
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