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Top Ten Holiday Mysteries

December 21, 2018 Bob Rivers 0

Top Ten Holiday Mysteries Having to work on a holiday has been known to put me in a horrible mood, yet Poirot, Holmes, and Inspector Alleyn seem to delight in having their holidays marred by […]

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Poisoned Pen Press: Bucking the Trend and Going Strong

August 29, 2016 Bob Rivers 0

Poisoned Pen Press: Bucking the Trend and Going Strong I recall speaking to a publishing industry insider who once proclaimed that anyone venturing into the world of publishing was swimming in precarious water. “You can’t […]

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Top Ten Crime Films that won the Oscar For Best Picture

February 27, 2016 Bob Rivers 0

Top Ten Crime Films that won the Oscar For Best PictureI know the Oscars seem to last forever, can be unforgivably corny, and those speeches or intros where celebs read from tele-prompters kind of make […]

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Top Ten Valentine’s Day Mysteries

February 14, 2016 Bob Rivers 0

Top Ten Valentine’s Day Mysteries Yeah, the human race is pretty odd, we read mysteries set during Christmas and we even have a dedicated group of fans who love to read mysteries set during Valentine’s […]

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Top Ten Mystery Novels

January 30, 2016 Bob Rivers 0

Top Ten Mystery Novels (Compiling a list of the top ten mystery novels was not an easy feat, I’d rather have compiled a list of the top 50 mystery novels and even then I’d be […]

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Top Ten Sherlock Holmes Actors

December 23, 2015 Bob Rivers 0

Basil Rathbone True, some of the films were, at best, loosely based on the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John Watson was played by Nigel Bruce who turned the good doctor into […]

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