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  • Her mix of the serious and the silly made her an uncomfortable fit during mystery's long-ago Golden Age.

    A Queen of Mystery Sarah Weinman 2011

  • Hmmm. Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that Ed needs to point out this mythical opposition to the mystery's legitimacy and to defend that legitimacy because he feels that otherwise a reader might feel that he's just a guy who likes mysteries, as opposed to a sagacious literary critic who has deeply considered mysteries, weighing them in the pans of his evaluative scale against The Classics?

    Explain Yourself 2010

  • "While the mystery's resolution may be fairly predictable, the witty byplay between the principals and the convincing portrayal of their burgeoning relationship will leave Parker fans eager for the next book" - Publishers Weekly.

    Blue Screen by Robert B. Parker: Book summary 2010

  • The revelation in the mystery's denouement is so shocking and smart that the entire tale is turned upside down.

    The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard: Book summary 2010

  • You don't have to be young -- only young-at-heart to enjoy Blue Balliett's wonderful books involving art world mystery's and the kid detectives that solve them.

    April 2008 2008

  • In his story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," published in Graham's Magazine, Edgar Allan Poe books by this author created mystery's first fictional detective, C.

    Archive 2010-04-18 Bill Crider 2010

  • Like many viewers, Cole has found himself perplexed by the mystery's wavy timeline and asks his co-stars, "Is this the room where it took place?"

    'Desperate Housewives' gets serious for finale 2008

  • Hector and Vidocq follow the mystery's trail from a Marais slum to the royal gardens of Saint-Cloud, and as more bodies rise up around them, they find themselves tantalizingly close to unveiling an explosive secretthe whereabouts of Marie Antoinette's sonwhose ultimate fate may have been known only to Hector's own father.

    The Black Tower by Louis Bayard: Questions 2008

  • Election Central won't rest until the mystery's solved -- who is this Lamont-supporting terrorist?

    CT-SEN: Lieb Camp Claims No Connection To Lamont-Backing 'Terrorist' 2009

  • Olivia gets a lot of the best lines, like when she climaxes her grotesque description of a murder mystery's set-up the victim was strangled with piano wire and then decapitated by exclaiming, "he was dead!"

    Michael Shayne: Private Detective Ed Howard 2009

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