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Stan Guthrie's avatar

I’ve read quite a few Peter Diamond books and my favourite is ‘Bloodhounds’, Lovesey’s (very good ) attempt at a locked room mystery tribute to John Dickson Carr.

‘The Crumpled Knave’ is a Boucher worth reading.

I like Anthony Horowitz but find the conceit in these pseudo-autobiographical books a bit self-indulgent.

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S. T. Karnick's avatar

One more note on Dew: the connections to real-life events and people are very rich, and parts of them are something of a precursor to Anthony Horowitz's toying with identity and the mental identification process behind the suspiction of disbelief when attending to fiction. Lovesey handles this with a light touch, having fun with the conventions and renewing and enriching them instead of trying to undermine or destroy them.

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