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Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler Publishers has ...

Late summer is upon us — the perfect time to settle in with a good mystery novel. This season there are many new titles to choose from, some by familiar authors like Donna Leon and John Dickson Carr, ...

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