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“This is very much a locked-room mystery. It’s by Peter Lovesey, who is one of the greatest mystery novelists of the last few decades. He’s post-Golden-Age Golden Age. He embodies the brilliance of the Golden Age in terms of plots, but he also brings something contemporary to it. The books in his Peter Diamond series are police procedurals — Diamond is a police officer — and the mysteries hinge on the official processes in a way that Golden Age mysteries don’t. Bloodhounds is a wonderful book because it’s a conscious tribute to and pastiche of the Golden Age. The Bloodhounds in question are a book group who read and discuss Golden Age mystery fiction. They find themselves confronted with a real-life locked-room mystery when one of their members is found dead on the canal barge on which he lives.” Read more...
The Best Locked-Room or Puzzle Mysteries
Tom Mead, Thriller and Crime Writer
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