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'Tasteless and immoral': the #1954book results

‘Tasteless and immoral’: the #1954book results

Every month on Past Offences we review the crime fiction of a particular year. This month regular player Kate from the excellent crossexaminingcrime chose 1954.

New player Jason Half opened fishily with George Milner’s Shark Among Herrings, expressing my own feelings about those country house parties.

It’s a way of living that is both exotic and stifling when I consider it today; I’m not sure I…

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Margery Allingham: No Love Lost

Margery Allingham: No Love Lost

No Love Lost contains two non-series novellas by Past Offences favourite Margery Allingham. As the title suggests, the two stories are connected by the theme of love, although the damage caused by gossip in small communities is a strong secondary theme.

In ‘The Patient at Peacocks Hall’, a young doctor who has never quite recovered from being dumped in favour of a movie starlet, is presented with…

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How Red Girl Spies Get Secrets from G.I.’s | Chemicals in Food Causes Cancer! | Why Lili St Cyr Took a Bubble Bath in Court

Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. I’ve called it Crimes of the Century. Kate from crossexaminingcrime has suggested 1954 for August.

If you want to take part, you can! When you’ve written…

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