Looking East

Expanding the horizons of golden age detective fiction.

Many thanks to my guest, Christopher Huang. You can find out more about his work at ricordius.com. His first mystery novel is A Gentleman's Murder. Read his article "How Do You Decolonise The Golden Age Mystery? Read More Historical Fiction!" at crimereads.com.

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Books mentioned:

— The Cadfael series by Ellis Peters

— X Esquire by Leslie Charteris

— The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie

— Meet the Tiger by Leslie Charteris

— Miss Moorthy Investigates by Ovidia Yu

— Ronald Knox's "Decalogue"

— "The Rules" episode of Shedunnit

— The Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers

— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

— A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

— The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

— The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu

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