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Capital Crimes: London Mysteries

Martin Edwards (Editor),

Arthur Conan Doyle

Start date: June 1, 2022

Finish date: June 30, 2022

Discussion: Group reads

Why we're reading this: Winner of the poll for our June group read
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* November 2025 group read - Winner!
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Jun 07, 2022 Sandy rated it it was ok

Shelves: rread-2022, mystery-detective-grp, mystery-classic, short-story-collection

I enjoyed the first story (Arthur Conan Doyle) and the last hundred pages with the more well-known golden age authors. But in between there were three hundred pages I didn't particularly like. ...more

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May 07, 2022 Jill rated it liked it

Like most anthologies, some of the stories here were good and others not so good. I liked the first one, even though the answer to it was given away right from the start. Others I particularly liked were The Magician of Cannon Street, Magic Casket, and Cheese. The weak ones were The Unseen Door, which seemed like it had been dashed off in a tea brake, and the one about the snake, which was very repetitive.

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Jun 19, 2022 Lynnie rated it really liked it

Shelves: short-stories, golden-age-detective-story, london, read-in-2022, kindleunlimited, british-library-crime

Overall a good selection of stories though I wish that London had had a more starring part in some of the stories. My favourites were "The Holloway Flat Tragedy", "The Little House", "The Avenging Chance", "The Unseen Door" and "Cheese". ...more

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