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Have a crime-filled Christmas

Andrew Taylor picks the best detective thrillers of the season — The Late Scholar, Then We Take Berlin, The Double, The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

30 November 2013

9:00 AM

Pity the poor novelist whom commercial pressures trap within a series, doomed with each volume to diminish the stock of options for the next one. It’s even harder when the series is not yours to begin with.

Jill Paton Walsh has now written her fourth instalment of the Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective novels, created by Dorothy L.

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