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The Quiet American (1955)
Season 3 Episode 11
In 1955, Graham Greene published "The Quiet American", part character confession and part political allegory, set amidst the changing of the colonial guard in Southeast Asia. As the French powers puf…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
LTP Selects: The Copper Beeches (1892)
Season 3 Episode 10
Our "Sherlock Selects" summer series concludes here with a real show-stopper! "The Copper Beeches" is one of Conan Doyle's most atmospheric and engaging mysteries, featuring a female client with moxi…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
LTP Selects: The Creeping Man (1923)
Season 3 Episode 9
When old age hands you lemons... it's time to take monkey gland injections from a quack Czech doctor! Or, at least, that's what Professor Presbury might have once suggested. This curious tale is as c…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Knots & Crosses (1987)
Season 3 Episode 8
In this gritty crime thriller, Detective Sergeant John Rebus makes his literary debut. Ian Rankin draws on rich material from the city of Edinburgh and his native Scotland in sculpting his protagonis…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
LTP Selects: Black Peter (1904)
Season 3 Episode 7
A grizzly harpoon murder and a protégé inspector lure Sherlock and Watson out of London and into the remote Weald of East Sussex in this atmospheric adventure. Originally published in 1904, this yarn…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
LTP Selects: The Bruce-Partington Plans (1908)
Season 3 Episode 6
Our "Sherlock Selects" mini-series continues to buffer the Summer's bigger reads, this time with a conversation on "The Bruce Partington Plans" from May 2018. Originally published in 1908 (and featur…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
A Morbid Taste For Bones (1977)
Season 3 Episode 5
Published in 1977, "A Morbid Taste For Bones" introduced Brother Cadfael to the world, a Welsh Benedictine monk of the 12th Century with a penchant for solving crimes. Although Ellis Peters establish…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
LTP Selects: The Cardboard Box (1893)
Season 3 Episode 4
Second in our series of "Sherlock Selects" for the Summer is "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". Originally published in January of 1893 (and first covered on LTP in June of 2017), Conan Doyle hims…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
LTP Selects: The Abbey Grange (1904)
Season 3 Episode 3
This season, we'll be buffering new episodes with re-introduced and smaller story reviews. For these selections, we reach back into our first season vaults and renew our love for some favourite Sherl…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Later (2021) by Stephen King
Season 3 Episode 2
"Later" marks the third and most recent crime story written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime label. Offering readers a predictable mix of the supernatural and police procedural, the horror mas…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago