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The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner | 12 | 38.71% | |
Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne | 5 | 16.13% | |
The Blackhouse by Peter May | 11 | 35.48% | |
Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippmann | 5 | 16.13% | |
Midnight Riot (US) / Rivers of London (UK) by Ben Aaronovitch | 11 | 35.48% | |
Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen | 4 | 12.90% | |
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey | 12 | 38.71% | |
The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb | 6 | 19.35% | |
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler | 9 | 29.03% | |
Ovid by David Wishart | 4 | 12.90% | |
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01-27-2016, 02:12 PM | #16 |
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It's been on my potential read list forever, but has never quite made it over the hump. I thought this year would be it, but now I've gone and started a mystery from Australiia. What was I thinking? :P
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01-27-2016, 02:15 PM | #17 |
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Well, sometimes you just have to read more than one mystery.
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01-27-2016, 02:28 PM | #18 |
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It's not one of my favorite genres. If it doesn't make the vote and I fear that is a very likely outcome then I might save it for a challenge next year to read something set in my home province or city.
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01-28-2016, 06:07 AM | #19 |
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We need three more votes for the best book in the list. Go The Blackhouse.
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01-28-2016, 09:42 AM | #20 |
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Perry Mason is such an icon, yet so very few people today have read even so much as one of the 82 books by Erle Stanley Gardner, a man who was one of the best selling writers of all times. These are thrilling mysteries, and The Case of the Velvet Claws is a wonderful start to the series, even though it has no courtroom scenes.
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01-28-2016, 09:47 AM | #21 |
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We need at least one more vote for The Blackhouse in order to have a 3-way tie. Two more votes would be better though. But a tie will do. So come on an vote.
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01-28-2016, 10:02 AM | #22 |
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Ive read somewhere that Raymond Burr had come in to try out for the role of Alexander Hamilton, but once Gardner saw he he said Burr was a perfect Mason. I have a biography of Raymond Burr on my TBR list (Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr by Michael Seth Starr), so I'll have to read that to confirm what I just wrote, but the rest of the cast of the TV series had their own secrets, such as the year William Talman (Hamilton) disappeared from the show for a year. He'd been fired by the studio for fear his extra-curricular activities could reflect badly on his credibility as an actor playing a District Attorney when he was arrested by the police who caught him naked at a pot party. He was eventually rehired.
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01-28-2016, 10:10 AM | #24 |
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There is very nearly a five-way tie!
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01-28-2016, 10:22 AM | #25 |
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Only seven more votes for Canada and it could be six-way.
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From the "About the Author" section from The Case of the Haunted Husband (Perry Mason Series Book 18):
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Here's a little taste of how Mason routinely and expertly slid out of choke holds. In The Case of the Haunted Husband, Lt. Tragg thought he'd had something on Mason for certain this time. The feather he'd spotted on the floor in Mason's office was evidence Mason had been at the scene of a locked down crime scene. WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS indicating the murderer ahead. Don't read if you intend to read the book or see the TV episode:
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