#peter drax

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Ive been slowly stockpiling these, might as well post them

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Aaron Paul in The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)

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Sing A Song Of Murder

A review of Sing A Song of Murder by Peter Drax – 250130 The last of six crime novels written by Peter Drax, the pen name of Eric Addis, was published posthumously in 1944 and has been reissued by Dean Street Press. Tragically, Addis was killed in action in 1941, mortally wounded in a German air raid in Alexandria. The unfinished novel was found in his papers and was completed by his wife,…

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High Seas Murder

A review of High Seas Murder by Peter Drax – 241127 I found the fifth novel by Peter Drax, originally published in 1939 and reissued by Dean Street Press, a bit hard going at the start, a little too much nautical background for a unreconstructed landlubber like myself. Of course, it all helps to provide the context for the story and allows Drax, the nom de plume of Eric Addis, to display his…

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Tune To A Corpse

A review of Tune to a Corpse by Peter Drax – 241025 The fourth novel written by Peter Drax, originally published in 1938 and reissued by Dean Street Press, was one of two of his books that were published in the United States, under the alternative title of Crime to Music. More of a seedy thriller than an inverted murder mystery, it is full of gritty realism, almost ahead of its time in its…

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Death By Two Hands

A review of Death by Two Hands by Peter Drax – 241003 Peter Drax, the nom de plume of Eric Addis, wrote six crime novels , of which Death by Two Hands, originally published in 1937 and reissued by Dean Street Press, is the third. It goes by the alternative title of Crime Within Crime. He was killed in action in 1941 in Egypt and left an unfinished novel, his sixth, which was later completed by…

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He Shot To Kill

A review of He Shot to Kill by Peter Drax – 240909 The second novel by Peter Drax, originally published in 1936 and reissued by Dean Street Press, is another visit to London’s picaresque riparian demi-monde. A thriller rather than a murder mystery as the identity of the killer of the river policeman is fairly evident, it is another tale in which its various characters fall into a web of intrigue…

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