What are you reading the week of April 1, 2012?

[dimbear]

12. Was It Murder? James Hilton........

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James' adventure into the detective story genre. Or misadventure. Good writer, not quite aware of how detective stories work. (Made one think of that other remarkable book "The Red House." Milne, of all people, wrote a detective story which was a big seller in its day and is surely one of the most outlandish plots ever hatched.)

Some writers have gone very successfully from the genres to the mainstream or back. Not many. They're two different worlds.

Rex Stout was a good example. Zane Grey was humdinger example.



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