![]() The eight stories in his list will mostly be familiar to crime readers and film buffs: The Red House Mystery by AA Milne, Malice Aforethought by Anthony Berkeley Cox, The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, Double Indemnity by James M Cain, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, The Drowner by John D MacDonald, the play Deathtrap by Ira Levin and The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Kershaw’s blog post was titled Eight Perfect Murders – cases where the murderer is not and almost certainly cannot be caught. He’s never sure whether she really wants his help or considers him a suspect, but you’ll have your own opinion on that. It’s surprising he doesn’t ask Mulvey for identification or question FBI involvement in a set of murders linked less by solid evidence than intuition. Near closing time on the night of a huge snowstorm, he’s visited by FBI agent Gwen Mulvey who sees parallels between a series of unsolved murders and a blog post Kershaw produced some years before. ![]() Malcolm Kershaw is part-owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, Massachusetts, which specialises in crime and mystery novels. It pulls together some of the best plots from past crime novels and combines them in a deliciously innovative way. ![]() Written by Peter Swanson - Anthony Horowitz calls this entertaining new puzzle mystery by Peter Swanson ‘fiendish good fun’, and that really hits the nail on the head. ![]()
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