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[abject_reptile]

The Wild Imagination of Harry Stephen Keeler.

"It’s also interesting to compare him to Agatha Christie, his exact contemporary. I recently read a non-series Christie that I was really enjoying: great voice, realistic atmosphere of doom. I was knocked out. But then I got to the twist, and I felt absolutely cheated by a nonsensical revelation.

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[mylodon]

I now want to know which Christie is being referred to.

[abject_reptile]

I haven't read all of the non-series novels and even if I had I'm not sure that I'd notice a nonsensical twist. Twists tend to be that way.

[mylodon]

I have a nagging thought at the back of my mind that I might know which twist it is but can't recall which book. (The one where the child who's been 'helping' the detective turns out to be the murderer.)

[abject_reptile]

Crooked House? It would depend on what kind of twist makes a reader want to throw a book at the wall.

[leaflet]

Are his books available as ebooks anywhere?

[abject_reptile]

Manybooks has three. I've only read one of those (The Case of the 16 Beans). It was my first Keeler and I seized up part way through because it was so odd but when I went back to it later I fell in love with it and started buying them. The e-books, what there are of them, are mostly very cheap.

[leaflet]

Ok. For some reason, the first time I searched in Manybooks by author, I didn't get any results. I found 'em the second time I tried.

[leaflet]

Well, whaddya know...I already had the 16 Beans downloaded. I thought it sounded familiar.