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Beneath the Stains of Time

Welcome to the niche corner, dedicated to the great detective stories of yore and their neo-classical descendants.

  • By TomCat
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Most recent posts

The Case of the Burnt Bohemian (1953) by Christopher Bush
Christopher Bush's 42nd Ludovic Travers novel, The Case of the Burnt Bohemian (1953), takes place during the period in the series when Travers juggled between his positions as chairman of the Broad Street Detective Agency …
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The Hit List: Top 5 Intriguing Pieces of Impossible Crime Fiction That Vanished into Thin Air
Earlier this year, I put together a depressing list of our genre's so-called "lost media" section, "The Hit List: Top 10 Works of Detective Fiction That Have Been Lost to History," which focused exclusively on …
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The Conjure-Man Dies (1932) by Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher was an African-American physician, radiologist and a notable author from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, but, during the early 1930s, Fisher turned to the popular detective stories of the day and penned …
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