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The Puzzle Doctor
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Avid mystery fiction book blogger at classicmystery.blog - rediscoverer of Brian Flynn
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Amused that Trump's lawyers really sent the legal letter to:
BBC Television Centre,
London W12 8QT.

I wonder if they included a self addressed envelope for a reply and called 018118055 to confirm receipt.

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BBC television centre before it got turned into flats.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"This just feels so fresh. Clear, distinct suspects, loads of secrets hiding under the surface… a perfect stocking filler"

Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 from The Puzzle Doctor:
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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It's dog sitting time again with a dead spy in a snowed-in house. Cracking new mystery from @antonyjohnston.bsky.social and @allisonandbusby.bsky.social #BookSky #Mystery

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The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail (2025) by Antony Johnston
Jobbing actor, some-time dog sitter and amateur sleuth Gwinny Tuffel is heading to an audition in Bath, with a director who she has a history with – and, after the first rehearsal, not much of a fu…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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After an unintentional thirteen year break from the series, I'm back in Shetland with Cass Lynch and Marsali Taylor #BookSky #Mystery #Shetland

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Buried In A Shetland Tomb (2014) by Marsali Taylor
Cass Lynch lives in her boat in the harbour of Brae, the oil capital of the Shetland Islands. As she begins to dread her upcoming stay on the mainland, necessary to gain the sailing qualifications …
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November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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A fantastic locked room mystery to kick off November - A Murder At World's End by Ross Montgomery @mossmontmomery.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social #BookSky #LockedRoom classicmystery.blog/2025/11/02/t...
The Murder At World’s End (2025) by Ross Montgomery
Cornwall, 1910. The country is in something of a panic due to the return of Halley’s Comet and the predictions of some astronomers that the planet Earth’s rotation will send it directly through the…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Two literary icons go head to head for this month's Puzzly - but who will win out of @andreinacordani.bsky.social's Scrooge or @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social s Q? Only one way to find out... #BookSky #BookOfTheMonth
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The Puzzly – The ISOTCMN Book Of The Month – October 2025
Oh, woe is me! My worst reading month for an age, mostly due to some irritating back pain that’s been plaguing me for the past week or two. Irritating is the right word – it’s just been annoying th…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Out now - The Death Lesson by @sarahwardcrime.bsky.social from @canelobooks.bsky.social . Warning - contains a dead Maths teacher!
#BookSky #Mystery
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The Death Lesson (2025) by Sarah Ward
One week. That was the entire length of Pippa Evans’ teaching career at Penbryn Hall, a prestigious private school for girls. On the first day that she arrived, she recognised a figure from her pas…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The Bloomsbury Murder (2025) by Mike Hollow classicmystery.blog/2025/10/23/t...
The Bloomsbury Murder (2025) by Mike Hollow
January 1941, London, and Detective Inspector John Jago is one of those remaining at Scotland Yard to police the streets during the blitz. A time when the country should be banding together is stil…
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October 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Out today from @AllisonandBusby - The Bloomsbury Murder by Mike Hollow #Mystery #BookSky
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The Bloomsbury Murder (2025) by Mike Hollow
January 1941, London, and Detective Inspector John Jago is one of those remaining at Scotland Yard to police the streets during the blitz. A time when the country should be banding together is stil…
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October 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Out tomorrow - The Merry Christmas Murders by Alexandra Benedict

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The Merry Christmas Murders (2025) by Alexandra Benedict
Brooke Parkin is facing one of her worst fears – not just school in general, but starting a new school in the run up to Christmas. Thankfully, the school has a positive Learning Support department,…
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October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Out this Thursday from @ZaffreBooks - Q strikes out on his own in Quantum Of Menace by @VaseemKhanUK. Trust me, you don't want to miss this one...
#BookSky #Whodunit #JamesBond #007
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Quantum Of Menace (2025) by Vaseem Khan
“Pay attention, 007…” For decades, Major Boothroyd – Q – had been head of the research and development arm of MI6 – Q Branch – arming their agents for their missions to put the world to rights, no …
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October 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Death In The Dales in Sedbergh was an excellent crime fiction event this weekend with @mwcraven.bsky.social , @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, @kateellisauthor.bsky.social and many more - including a mystery guest panelist on The Golden Age... #BookSky #Mystery
classicmystery.blog/2025/10/19/d...
Death In The Dales 2025
It was earlier this year when an odd coincidence happened. I happened to stumble across an advert for Death In The Dales, a crime fiction book festival in Sedbergh, that just happened to feature ma…
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October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ATV review that contains a recommendation of a must-see murder mystery. To be clear, though, it's not this one...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My standard medicine for a case of reader's block - take one Paul Doherty and leave me alone until I finish it...
#historymystery #BookTwitter #classicmystery
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October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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It's coming up to fifteen years of crime fiction and classic mystery blogging - so it's time to take a look back at how it began...
#ClassicMystery #BookSky
classicmystery.blog/2025/10/12/f...
Fifteen Years On The Blog – A Look Back At Year One
It’s only a couple of month now before my blog turns fifteen. That’s the crystal anniversary, I think, although enterprising jewellers who’ve realised that they can’t wait forty years to sell them,…
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October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The Curse Of Book Club strikes again - somewhat at least...
#classicmystery #invertedmystery #classiccrime #BookSky
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The Affair At Little Wokeham (1943) by Freeman Wills Crofts
Anthony Mallaby’s life has led him to Little Wokeham. A doctor in the declining years of his career for a number of reasons, he has taken the role of a GP in the village. He soon becomes close to t…
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October 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I am totally blown away by this review! 😍😍
October 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
puzzledoctor.bsky.social
Fancy a Christmassy mystery? You can't get any more Christmassy - or more mysterious - than this one, out on Thursday from the "Christmas Death Fairy" @andreinacordani.bsky.social and @zaffrebooks.bsky.social #BookSky #Dickens #Mystery
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A Scrooge Mystery (2025) by Andreina Cordani
Everyone knows the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge. How after years of miserly behaviour inflicted misery on all those around him, one Christmas morning he transformed into a benevolent figure, bringing…
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October 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Genuinely the hardest Puzzly to judge ever - its head to head to head between the latest from @nevfountain.bsky.social , @victoriadowd.bsky.social and @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky #BookOfTheMonth

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The Puzzly – The ISOTCMN Book Of The Month – September 2025
September, traditionally one of the weakest months for the number of books that I manage to read. Term starts, with its usual plethora of distractions as classes begin again and piles of paperwork …
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October 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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New review - out next week from Simon Brett and @severnhouse.bsky.social
#BookSky

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Mrs Pargeter’s Past (2025) by Simon Brett
Mrs Pargeter (Melita to no one but her late husband) has always kept her distance from the shady businesses that her late husband was engaged in. The lifestyle it has set her up in is extremely com…
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September 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Very rare, but more findable than some titles I've reviewed. And you really should find it...
#LockedRoomMystery #BookSky
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Invisible Green (1977) by John Sladek
In 1939, the final meeting of the Unravellers was held in the room above Alberto’s restaurant. The various members of the crime-studying group go their separate ways as war descends over Europe and…
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September 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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This is fun and ##Booksky 📚 should take up the cause.
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Looks like AI-bots are scraping content from mine and other blogs, but I might have a solution… and you can help! #BookSky #ClassicCrime

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A Chinese Puzzle…
So, dear reader, I present you with a Chinese Puzzle. Not the apparently rubbish and definitely problematc Miles Burton book, no, it concerns the visits to my site. Here’s a bar chart of the visito…
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September 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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New review - out in a couple of weeks time from @stormbooksco.bsky.social #BookSky #CosyMystery
classicmystery.blog/2025/09/24/m...
Murder At The Wild Haggis Bookshop (2025) by Jackie Baldwin
Beth Cunningham has come to Oban, a coastal town in West Scotland, to start a new life, to finally put her past behind her. Opening The Wild Haggis Bookshop was a dream come true, but it quickly tu…
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September 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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New Review: A Matrimonial Murder by Meeti Shroff-Shah #BookSky @joffebooks.bsky.social
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A Matrimonial Murder (2025) by Meeti Shroff-Shah
Radhi Zaveri is waiting to hear from her editor about the murder mystery that she has written – based somewhat on the murder that she solved in A Mumbai Murder Mystery. While waiting, she is resear…
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September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM