“His presence was sanity and reassurance.” #BLCC150 #carterdickson

May sees a very special event taking place, and that's the release of the 150th title in the British Library Crime Classics series. These have been a massive success, bringing back into print some wonderful, lost Golden Age crime mysteries, and I, for one, am a huge fan (as you'll no doubt realise from the amount of titles I've covered!) The celebratory book is a good one, too - it's by the master of…

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“How the blazes does he think he can get away with it again?” #BLCC #CarterDickson

A recent release from the British Library in their Crime Classics range has to count as one of the most complex and convoluted murder mysteries I've ever read! The book in question is "The Ten Teacups" by Carter Dickson (one of John Dickson Carr's fairly obvious aliases!), and I picked it up at the end of the Easter holidays when I felt in need of a little Golden Age Crime.

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