I read a whole bunch of books this year, and these are among the best. Calibre by Ken Bruen Tells the story of a group of police officers in Wales(?) investigating a variety of cases. Refers to and models itself on the Ed McBain 87th precinct series, with a nod to Jim Thompson as well. [...]
Also tagged dan simmons, ken bruen, neal stephenson, scott sigler, stieg larssonThe Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction edited by Deane Mansfield-Kelley and Lois A Marchino I’m using this book in my Literary Genres: Detective Fiction class this semester, so I skimmed it to determine which readings to assign, and now I’ve been reading it thoroughly as the class works their way through it. Lots of good [...]
Also tagged arthur conan doyle, book, dashiell hammett, detective, edgar allen poe, ellery queen, mystery, raymond chandler, sara paretsky, sue grafton, Teachingby Agatha Christie The only Christie novel to make the 1000 books you must read before you die list, Ackroyd serves as a metonym for every Christie novel, or at least every Poirot novel. It’s skillfully written, with a wide net of characters, an intriguing puzzle mystery with plenty of side distractions (affairs, debts, scoundrels, [...]
Also tagged canon, classics, crippen, dan ackroyd, detective, erik laarsen, mystery, paul giamatti, poirot, rationalism, thunderstruck, vaccinesA few bullets from this weekend’s media meals. We got an Agatha Christie Poirot from the library over the weekend: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. One of the suspects seemed familiar, but it took me a minute or two to figure out it was Christopher Eccleston, the first of the new Doctors Who. Avery discovered [...]
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The Unincorporated Man
Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects
Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An All-New Collection of the World’s Unlikeliest Research
