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Reading through the twentieth century, one murder mystery at a time.

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There are no major plot spoilers in this episode, but the plot of each book is discussed briefly. There is a major spoiler for the Sherlock Holmes story “The Final Problem” from 1893.

The ten books I read for this episode are:

1905 — The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

1913 — Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley

1920 — The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts

1934 — The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

1943 — Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

1952 — Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert

1964 — From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell

1977 — Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James

1986 — Appleby and the Ospreys by Michael Innes

1997 — Black and Blue by Ian Rankin

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