Classic Mysteries

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• "The Continental Op"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  On our Classic Mysteries podcast this week, youll find a review of a series of short stories by Dashiell Hammett, featuring his detective, " The Continental Op ." This detective without a name prowls the streets of San Francisco in the 1920s. The op - short for operative - is the epitome of a Hammett private eye - ...
  6 days ago

• "The Labors of Hercules"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  The mythical Graeco-Roman demigod, Hercules, had to perform a dozen seemingly impossible tasks. His modern detective counterpart, Hercule Poirot, also found himself investigating twelve quite distinctive mysteries, each with a parallel to one of the original labors, in " The Labors of Hercules ," by Agatha Christie. ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Smallbone Deceased"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  It is distressing when members of a prestigious English law firm cannot find one of their prominent clients, the trustee of a charitable foundation. It is more distressing when that client turns up - quite dead - inside an oversized safe deposit box, or deed box. Thats the situation in " Smallbone Deceased ," by ...
  2 weeks ago

• "The Longer Bodies"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  Murder most British is on tap this week, as our "Classic Mysteries" podcast reviews " The Longer Bodies ," by Gladys Mitchell. This novel, which first appeared in 1930, features the detective work of Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, a psychiatrist who helps the police - and who is sufficiently eccentric in her appearance ...
  3 weeks ago

• "The Widening Stain"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  This weeks podcast review on Classic Mysteries comes with the due weight, solemnity and overall gravitas one would expect to find at a prestigious Ivy League university. Or maybe not. The goings-on in Morris Bishops " The Widening Stain " were sufficiently irreverent and offbeat for Bishop, a Cornell University ...
  5 weeks ago

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