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Whodunits shouldn’t be dismissed as a guilty pleasure

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators Martin Edwards

Collins Crime Club, pp.736, 30

What a weird lot crime writers are. I don’t come to this conclusion lightly, since I’m a crime writer myself, but on the evidence of this magisterial but wickedly entertaining book the conclusion is inescapable.

As you turn the pages, the evidence mounts up. One crime writer has been considered a serious candidate for sainthood and another has been convicted of murder.

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