Clemence Dane

‘Murder!’ (1930) is an overly talky early Hitchcock talkie

“Murder!” (1930) is an early example of Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite theme of the wrongly accused person (in this rare case, a woman rather than a

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Christie chips in on Detection Club’s ‘Floating Admiral’ (1931) 

“The Floating Admiral” (1931) is billed as “the most unusual mystery ever written,” and it may indeed be. It’s a “round-robin” novel. Think of it

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