Among good reads, the classic detective fiction novel should come in somewhere near the top, mixed with various other genres. Such collections as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is still a good seller and can be found at nearly any bookstore due to the still common popularity.
Such readers may occasionally have to special order some [...]
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THE MOST OFF-PUTTING THING about Iain Pears’s extraordinary 17th-century detective story An Instance of the Fingerpost (694 pages. Riverhead. $27) is, unfortunately, its title. In fact, one of the few missteps Pears makes in this erudite, funny historical novel is that he doesn’t explain–until page 594–that his title comes from a quote by Sir Francis [...]
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