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    July 01, 2012

    Looking Back: More by Clason

    If you are intrigued by the kind of locked room/impossible crime mysteries that were specialties of Clyde B. Clason, you might be interested in a couple of other Clason mysteries, written a few years after he wrote "The Purple Parrot."

    "Dragon's Cave" is a fairly complex but quite enjoyable mystery, involving the murder of a rich Chicago man, found murdered in a locked room, the apparent victim of an antique halberd, one of the antique weapons he collected. How could the murder have taken place inside that locked room - and why did the killer choose such a large and awkward weapon?

    In "Poison Jasmine," Professor Westborough is on the scene in California, when a fellow-guest at the home of a world-famous perfume maker is poisoned at the dinner table - in plain sight of several guests, none of whom saw anyone tampering with the victim's food. It's another impossible-crime thriller, and a very clever one.

    The links, by the way, will take you to my earlier blog posts about those books - where you'll find links to my podcast reviews and the book pages on Amazon.

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    Margot Kinberg

    Les - Thanks for mentioning those titles. I've heard of them, but haven't gotten the chance to read them. Your post has given me a good kick in the pants to read them!

    Posted by: Margot Kinberg | July 01, 2012 at 01:17 PM

    Les Blatt

    Margot, you are probably the LAST person I would think needs a kick in the pants to get you to read a good mystery! As for the Clasons, these two (and others) have been republished by the Rue Morgue Press, so - I hope - they should be fairly easy to find. Enjoy!

    Posted by: Les Blatt | July 01, 2012 at 01:31 PM

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