![]() ![]() ![]() Some detectives get go out in a blaze of glory like Poirot in Agatha Christie’s near-posthumous Curtain or Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse in The Remorseful Day more often than not though the law of diminishing returns has set in long before their final farewell. They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act.” So, 2 down and at least 14 more to go with Raymond Chandler’s Playback (1958). There are several challenge levels to commit to and one can of course change as it progresses – I will attempt to read 16+ eligible books before the year is out. Over at My Reader’s Block Bev has started (and in fact already completed!) a year-long challenge for 2011 – to read a pre-determined number of classic detective stories of a pre-1960 vintage. ![]()
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