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In the Mood for Some Cocktails and Banter? Plus a Spot of Murder? Here Ya Go!

Collected Millar: The First Detectives by Margaret Millar

March 27, 2024 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

This is a collection of five novels, written by Canadian author Margaret Miller in the 1940s.  The last two were Inspector Sands novels, but I’m afraid he is rather bland, although the second one, The Iron Gates, was a nifty puzzle.  But the first three, the Paul Prye Mysteries, were some good stuff. Let’s let Prye explain his vocation.  “I’m a kind of cosmopolitan quack.  If a lady in San Francisco wants to know why her husband has taken to eating paper bags, she might […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: 1940s setting, Canadian detectives, Good Times. Perpetual Cocktail Hour, Margaret Millar, Nick and Nora Charles-esque, Witty Bsnter

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: 1940s setting, Canadian detectives, Good Times. Perpetual Cocktail Hour, Margaret Millar, Nick and Nora Charles-esque, Witty Bsnter ·
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