8 Perfect Murders Notes

8 Perfect Murders Notes

Old Devil’s Bookstore

Malcolm Kershaw 

John Haley, print owner

New Blog - “Eight Perfect Murders”

Claire Mallory, car accident - Patrick Yates - Doctor Martha 

Black Barn Enterprises, Eric Atwell

Brian Murray, co-owner - Tess - Humphrey the dog Ellis Fitzgerald series

The Poison Tree (1)

The Sticking Place (5)

Temperate Blood

Die a Little 

The Wild Air, new

The Reaping Season

Emily Barsamian, am employee - seeing Jane

Jane Pendergast - The Owl Shall Stoop

Brandon Weeks, pm employee

Richard Stark - The Hunter

Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo’s Calling

John le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Rick Murphy, prior employee

Duckburg

Bert KLing - Norman Chaney

Det. Roberta James

Nicholas Pruitt, brother-in-law

Little Fish, short stories

Jillian Nguyen

Nero, cat

Marty Kingship, former police office, friend

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)

“Fiction is so much better than reality”

“You introduced me to killing, and you introduced me to reading. And my life got better.”

It was where he found me, on Duckburg, looking for a fellow fan of Strangers on a Train

I’ve already said, we started to spend less time together. And that was when he came up with the idea of finishing off the murders from the list I’d written. ”

Margaret Lumm, customer

Mike and Becky Swenson, Minnesota

David Poppovich, Cut him off.

Doctor Sheppard

I am Halfway through your list …

Narrator, Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Gwen Mulvey, FBI Special Agent - Charlie

Agent Berry

Agent Perez

Seven Clifton - Gwen Mulvey’s father

Unsolved murders

Robin Callahan, Life’s Too Long,, The ABC Murders

Jay Bradshaw - The ABC Murders

Ethan Byrd

Bill Manso - Double Indemnity

Elaine Johnson - Deathtrap

memorable, difficult customer, abrasive

Det. Laura Cifelli

Patricia Cornwell - Postmortem, 1st ed

Michael Connelly - The Black Echo, 1st ed

handcuffs hanging from nail, Deathtrap

all 8 boos 

Daniel Gonzalez - The Secret History

Eight Perfect Murders

Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders

Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train

Ira Levin’s Death Trap

A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery

Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought

James M. Cain's Double Indemnity

John D. Macdonald's The Drowner

Donna Tartt's A Secret History

Other Books mentioned

Ruth Rendell - Shake Hands Forever

Agatha Christie - A Pocket Full of Rye

Lawrence Kasdan - Body Heat, film

Dorothy Hughes - In a Lonely Place

Late Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl, unreliable narrator 

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks - named cat Nero

Ted Hughes - The Hawk in the Rain

Charles Willeford - The Burnt Orange Heresy

Lawrence Block - When the Ginmill Closes

Mysteries for a Cold Winter Night, old Blog Post

The Sittaford Mystery (1931) by Agatha Christie

The Nine Tailors (1934) by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Corpse in the Snowman (1941) by Nicholas Blake

Tied Up in Tinsel (1972) by Ngaio Marsh

The Shining (1977) by Stephen King

Gorky Park (1981) by Martin Cruz Smith

Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992) by Peter Høeg

A Simple Plan (1993) by Scott Smith

The Ice Harvest (2000) by Scott Phillips

Raven Black (2006) by Ann Cleeves

Sharon Abrams list

Anthony Berkeley Cox - Aforethought

Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers - The Nine Tailors

Josephine They - The Daughter of Time

Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca

Faye Kellerman - The Ritual Bath

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

2 Sue Grafton books