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	The Lost Film by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Mark West (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peel Back the Sky by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Nicholas Royle (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ill At Ease 2 by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laudanum Nights 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murmured In Dreams by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Priya Sharma (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Death Comes at Christmas

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Stephen Bacon rated a book liked it Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries by Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A decent enough anthology from the British Library's Crime Classics, edited by Martin Edwards, featuring short stories from the Golden Age of crime, these ones set around the festival of Christmas. With the exception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherl ...more
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The Murder Game is a well-researched book about the various elements of 'gameplay' featured in the classic murder mysteries written during the Golden Age (generally described as being between the two wars). Author John Curran's detail is superb, and ...more
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New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural Volume 3 is the latest in the series of original, non-themed horror anthologies that began in 1971 under the editorship of David Sutton and ran for two editions before being discontinued in the wake of market ...more
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A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice... The dentist was discovered with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung hand. Later, one of his patients is found dead from a lethal dose of anaesth ...more
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I originally read this novel when I was a teenager, after devouring James Herbert's Rats and The Fog. I remember loving it at the time, but this was over three decades ago and I approached this reread with a degree of trepidation, expecting that it m ...more
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