#detective stories
Detective Book
Double Detective April 1940
The Green Lama by Richard Foster
A Mask for a Killer by Wyatt Blassingame
Bullets for Your Birthday by Cyril Plunkett
A Room to Die In by Dale Clark
Life—or Death by Roger Torrey
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Thrilling Mystery January 1942
Clue in Blue by Fredric Brown
Death Walks Softly by John Knox
Power of the Puppets by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
The Double For Hate by Norman A. Daniels
Three Left Hands by Sam Merwin
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Behind the Scenes of The Unicorn and the Wasp (Part Five)
Excerpts from Jason Arnopp’s article in DWM 396:
David’s favorite detective, we later learn, is Columbo. He’s shocked to hear that, when asked, none of his fellow cast members chose Peter Falk’s scruffy sleuth.
“I thought everyone would say Columbo!” he frowns. “What did they choose?”
Well, Tom Goodman-Hill (Reverend Golightly) and Leena Dhingra (Ms Chandrakala) voted for Sherlock Holmes. Felicity Jones went for Dick Tracey (”He has a good hat”), while Fenella Woolgar (Agatha Christie) understandably chose Joan Hicksons’ Miss Marple. Then there were some relatively obscure ones from novels.
“Oh,” he chuckles, “they’re just trying to prove how bloomin’ exotic they are. It’s like those people who go on Desert Island Discs and choose all classical music, when actually all they’ve got at home is a few Beverley Craven albums. And there’s nothing wrong with a Beverley Craven album! But I’m sticking with Columbo - he’s just so cool. A mind like a trap, hidden in a body like a dung-heap. There’s also something quite Doctor-ish about him, so that’s probably why he appeals to me.”
Cripes! If The Unicorn and the Wasp’s cast and crew had to kill someone, what would be their murder weapon of choice?
Catherine Tate: “Sarcasm”
Russell T. Davies: “A great big gun, and then an axe, and then a steamroller. If I want ‘em dead, they’re dead. Failing that, I’d send in Jackie Tyler”.
Graeme Harper: “I like the idea of killing someone with a pointed piece of ice. Then it would melt, and no one would be able to tell how you’d done it!”
Fenella Woolgar: “Kindness!”
Gareth Roberts: “I would read them the Collected Columns of Polly Toynbee and bore them to death.”
David Tennant: “Something that didn’t make it too painful for them. Although, presumably I’d be killing them because they’d slighted me in some way. But I’d hope that, even in that state of psychosis, I’d manage someempathy. I’d like it to be a painless poison, so they’ll slip away into a sleep. Either that… or a gunshot to the face.”
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“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” - Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie is one of the greatest storytellers of all time and the queen of writing cosy crime. There is nothing better than unwinding with a relaxing Poirot mystery!
The modern-day Musketeers detective stories continue. Chapter one.
