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AC is starting Hag's Nook

This one is sorely in need of reprinting and also of being made available as an epub. I’m not sure why Otto Penzler or someone else has gotten to it yet.

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AC is 86% done with The French Powder Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective #2)

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AC is 11% done with Buffet for Unwelcome Guests: The Best Short Mystery Stories of Christianna Brand (Mystery Makers)

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AC is 54% done with The French Powder Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective #2)

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AC is 31% done with The French Powder Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective #2)

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AC is 65% done with Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

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AC is 32% done with Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

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AC is 8% done with The Murder Game

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AC is 58% done with Death of an Author

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AC is 30% done with Death of an Author

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AC is starting Death of an Author

This is a reread from December, when I relied on audible — and so missed a lot — and when I was just beginning my deep dip into GAD. So I want to revisit this, properly, also as a prelude to reading more (and more systematically) Lorac

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AC is 94% done with The Hog's Back Mystery

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AC is 76% done with The Hog's Back Mystery

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AC is 56% done with The Hog's Back Mystery

The commonplace that Crofts is dull is absurd. These books are masterpieces of intelligent and intricate plotting. Unless you find careful reasoning “dull”.

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AC is 20% done with The Hog's Back Mystery

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AC is 95% done with The Case With Nine Solutions (Clinton Driffield Mystery)

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