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CIS: All about Bloomsbury Reader

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Crime Fiction Lover is very pleased to bring you Classics in September – a month of good old crime books – with the support of Bloomsbury Reader. Advertising on our site and providing us with great prizes for you on Facebook, Bloomsbury Reader is the…
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A classic revisited: The Big Bow Mystery

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The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill wasn’t the first locked room mystery ever published. That accolade goes to Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841. However the 1892 book is widely regarded as the first full length novel…
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Pulp of the Baskervilles

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If you like classic pulp-style art, watch for the new Pulp Classics series from Oldcastle Books. Of greatest interest to crime fiction lovers will be the reprint of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles as seen above. Its cover, painted by illustrator David Mann,…
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Gems from the Golden Age

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Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L Sayers – just a handful of the best-known names from the Golden Age of crime fiction back in the 1920s and 30s. In those days, detectives had something proper about them, there was a certainness about right…
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Encounters of Sherlock Holmes

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Edited by George Mann — With Sherlock Holmes out of copyright, authors are free to use the character and his partner in crime fighting Dr John Watson in stories as they wish. Even leading authors like Anthony Horowitz have had a go. Here George Mann, who…
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World Book Night: 25 great crime reads

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Well, it’s Shakespeare’s birthday and 23 April has also been designated World Book Night. While we think the charitable effort – distributing a million free books to people less fortunate – is commendable, when we looked at this year’s WBN list we couldn’t help but…
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