Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead mystery book review

[@bbbadkitty9638]

I just put this book on my TBR list yesterday. Thank you for the great review. I'm really looking forward to it. Love your channel!

[@artstories52]

Now on my TBR. Sounds like fun. Good review. Thx.

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

This sounds brilliant. Love a good locked room mystery 😊

[@DDB168]

Oh noooo, that pause thingy. Oh the humanity. It's like a scooby doo ending. 🤭

[@bjminton2698]

Oooooh - sounds wonderful! Thank you!

[@wallhagens2001]

Thanks for introducing me to this book! Sounds like my bag. Love from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

[@AnimeFanX11]

I'll suggest looking up the term "shin-honkaku" - it's basically the closest modern day equivalent of Golden Age Mysteries. (A famous one is Decagon House Murders, but Death Among the Undead was a masterpiece that swept the mystery awards in Japan the year it debuted.)

[@eriebeverly]

I'm glad you had a good time with something a little different. There have been a lot of locked-room thrillers (versus detective/mystery) over the last few years. I had no idea people took so many vacations to places they were likely to get stranded and/or killed. It's not locked room but Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase is magic-related. And just kooky.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I really really need to read some JHC

[@awebofstories]

I love Golden Age mysteries, but I'm still exploring authors beyond Agatha Christie. This one sounds wonderful and I just added it to my TBR!

[@tofusandwich9701]

Death from a Top Hat (1938) by Clayton Rawson is the start of an enjoyable locked-room mystery series featuring The Great Merlini, a former magician turned amateur detective.

[@sethball2475]

I put this in my Want to Read pile at Goodreads a while ago, and now we have a very positive review from you to get me primed! Suggestions: Olly, you have to get to The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy by James Anderson, if you want to have fun with a clever whodunit. This was a fairly recent discovery for me, and there are two follow-ups that are almost as good. There's always my very favourite Mystery novel, The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey. Incredibly entertaining and surprising, up until the last page. Others: Murder After Christmas, by Rupert Latimer The Mad Hatter Mystery, by John Dickson Carr Death on the Aisle, by Frances and Richard Lockridge The Siamese Twin Mystery, by Ellery Queen The Crime at Black Dudley, by Margery Allingham The Cheltenham Square Murder, by John Bude The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux The Polo Ground Mystery, by Robin Forsythe Blue Murder, by Harriet Rutland Home Sweet Homicide, by Craig Rice The Poisoned Chocolates Case, by Anthony Berkeley Odor of Violets, by Baynard Kendrick Most of these are older, not recent books paying homage to the Golden Age; they are from the Golden Age, or close - and many have recently been re-published.

[@davebrzeski]

It sounds a tad similar to the Jonathan Creek TV SHOW.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Yeah not dissimilar!

[@MichaelRumney]

After I saw this video I bought the book on kindle for 99p. Sounds a bargain.