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Thanks to the Poisoned Pen Press for lending me a digital ARC via Netgalley.
One of the first Golden Age mysteries I ever read was the Francis Iles 1931 classic “inverted mystery,” Malice Aforethought, about a doctor who decides that he will do away with his shrewish wife and marry a younger woman he fancies. It’s called an inverted mystery because, unlike your usual mystery, we know who the murderer is from the start, and the story is more of a whydunnit, howdunnit, and what happened along the w ...more
One of the first Golden Age mysteries I ever read was the Francis Iles 1931 classic “inverted mystery,” Malice Aforethought, about a doctor who decides that he will do away with his shrewish wife and marry a younger woman he fancies. It’s called an inverted mystery because, unlike your usual mystery, we know who the murderer is from the start, and the story is more of a whydunnit, howdunnit, and what happened along the w ...more
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