Good to know, thanks for the info about Queen rogerpepitone and Sherringford. I'll have to remember that when picking out my next Queen novel.
And much obliged for the link to Carr's essay, I'll check it out tonight.
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I think the character I got the most attached to and felt like I just took a punch from Christie when something happened to him was a certain character from Roger Ackroyd. You know the one.
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heh, it's been years since I read Roger Ackroyd, but I will admit that that one got me.
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Ryu's romance is...too melodramatic for my taste. I like my murders cozy and my explosions to somehow not affect the detectives thank you very much.
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I'm afraid I'm more of a fan of the American hard-boiled school. Coffee and mysterious dames and seamy underbellies of the corrupt city. And gunfights, of course.
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She was funny, it's just that she didn't seem like a detective to me.
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I thought she was a rather good impression of Philo Vance! With an extra dose of evil to go along with the phony, arrogant detective posturings.