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4 days ago · Today, my Book Club turns its attentions to yet another experimental effort by another author: Philip MacDonald’s The Maze (1932). In his introduction to the novel, MacDonald writes: “I have given this book the subtitle of ‘An Exercise in Detection.’ I have used the word ‘exercise’ deliberately; I mean it to be an exercise not only ...
May 18, 2024 · Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George...
Philip MacDonald had shown himself in The Noose and The Rasp to be a master of the detective novel. In Murder Gone Mad he raised the stakes with the first Golden Age crime novel to feature a motiveless serial killer prompted only by blood lust – inspired by the real-life case in 1929 of the Düsseldorf Monster – and this time without the ...
3 days ago · One final mystery for Fatty, Bets, Daisy, Larry and Pip as, nearly seven years after first discovering them myself, and after a literary life spanning some 18 years, the Five Find-Outers and dog reach the end of the road. Four years had passed in the real world since Blyton last wrote about these characters, and….
May 7, 2024 · Another case for Fatty, Bets, Daisy, Larry, and Pip, albeit one that rings a few minor changes… The established pattern of the Five Find-Outers mysteries is that we start with one or other of the four siblings either lamenting an absence of adventure or eagerly awaiting Fatty’s return so that he might bring some mystery into their comfortably middle class lives.
May 5, 2024 · Sergio picked X. vs. Rex (a.k.a. Mystery of the Dead Police) by Philip MacDonald as Serial Killer Mystery Nick picked Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie as Twist Ending Brad picked Blue Murder by Harriet Rutland as Wartime Mystery
May 17, 2024 · Philip MacDonald. Overview. Stats. Full name Philip MacDonald. Born. School Crescenta (CA) HS. Drafted in the 17th round (329th overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1966.
