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Book Review of The Fourth Door: The Houdini Murders

The Fourth Door: The Houdini Murders
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Although the author has been unashamedly compared to John Dickson Carr, I found this entertaining book more like some of Anthony Boucher's impossible crime stories -- some of it is so outlandish that you have to smile and shake your head at the nerve of the author. It's well written (with no small credit to the translator John Pugmire) and has a bunch of interesting twists and turns. A welcome throw-back to the Golden Age of mystery telling.