The grandfather of detective fiction still has a lot to teach us.

Many thanks to my guest, Jim Noy. You can find out more about his work at his blog, theinvisibleevent.com. His book The Red Death Murders is available only from Amazon worldwide (link for UK; link for US).

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Books mentioned:

— The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

— The Red Death Murders by Jim Noy

— The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

— "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

— Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

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