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Three Investigators - An American juvenile detective book series created by Robert Arthur Jr. Kiyoshi Shimada - a Buddhist priest who excels at solving mysteries, created by Yukito Ayatsuji. Shimada first appeared in Ayatsuji's debut novel The Decagon House Murders (1987). The book belongs to his Bizarre House/Mansion Murders series.
[This book is] in the writer's estimation her finest achievement and one of the truly great detective stories of all time." [ 5 ] Taking the opposite view, the American critic Edmund Wilson , in his excoriating 1945 essay attacking the entire genre of detective fiction , Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? , criticised The Nine Tailors in ...
Among Boucher's critical writing was also contributing annual summaries of the state of speculative fiction for Judith Merril's The Year's Best SF series; as editor, he published the volumes in E. P. Dutton's The Best Detective Stories of the Year annual volumes published in 1963–1968, succeeding Brett Halliday and followed, after his death ...
The 1942 film adaptation appears briefly in the season 2 finale of the show Bosch during a conversation between Bosch and the detective on his mother's murder case. The book is a major reference point in the 2017 film, Mercury in Retrograde, whose characters discuss it at length in a climactic book-club scene. [9]
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head [1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year.
The novel was well received from its first publication, [4] [5] and has been called Christie's masterpiece. [6] In 2013, the British Crime Writers' Association voted it the best crime novel ever. [7] It is one of Christie's best-known [8] [9] and most controversial novels, [10] [11] [12] its innovative twist ending having a significant impact ...
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. [2] It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, [3] after an 1869 minstrel song that serves as a major plot element.
In his Naked Is the Best Disguise (1974), Samuel Rosenberg notes the similarity between Jefferson Hope's tracking of Enoch Drebber and a sequence in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, though of course Joyce's work did not begin to appear in print until 1918. Several other associations between Conan Doyle and Joyce are also listed in Rosenberg's book.