The Book Forger (2024) – Joseph Hone

I first discovered the story of Thomas Wise and the 19th Century Pamphlets via two reviews - one from Dorothy L. Sayers and one from Anthony Boucher. They were reviewing two different books, but seemed to find the real life case they both centred on to be a fascinating example of a real-life detective story. Faced with these endorsements, I had to look up the Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets - and I quickly became obsessed. Since reading that book…

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John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study (1990) – S. T. Joshi

Books are wonderful - so what could be better than a book? A book about books, of course!After I saw John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study book mentioned both in Douglas Greene's biography of Carr and on Tangled Yarns, I felt I had to check it out.Douglas Greene described it as "filled with insights about Carr's writing and attitudes", and I have to say, it met my expectations! There are some great insights here, and it's extremely quotable. Only on one occasion did I…

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