tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953280070115140001.post448120308442071392..comments2023-08-02T14:53:17.253+02:00Comments on At the Villa Rose: Tuesday Night Bloggers: Sticking to the FormulaXavierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953280070115140001.post-75982845818982724492016-05-07T20:11:28.526+02:002016-05-07T20:11:28.526+02:00I read your article this only now, having finally ...I read your article this only now, having finally managed to find the username and password yahoo, which lost just after Jon had invited me on Gadetection.<br />Your point of view is interesting, when you think the activities of Carr novelist. I have always thought that Carr was the greatest writer of Mystery, biggest than Christie and Queen, at the perfect trinity of novelists. Carr was the greatest of all, because united to the overflowing imagination, the frenzied virtuosity of the mysteries of the Locked Room and Crimes Impossible, and yet knew tell like no other. He had the sacred gift of creative writing: he knew arouse atmospheres using various stylistic tricks, at the same time was very strict in historical research and knew describe how anyone: I remember for example the description of clocks in Death-Watch. In some ways who approached him for writing quality, the ability to describe and to create atmospheres, was Christianna Brand and Ngaio Marsh. But he was the greatest.<br />If he had not invented locked rooms , he would certainly have become a novelist tout court; I am convinced as you are. But basically he has exhausted the impossible situations that no one else had tried to do, and being recognized a Teacher while he was still alive, must have locked up him in a cage from which evidently he did not know, did not want and did not get out. Watch his friends! Who were they? Other crazy experimenters of impossible crimes ! Rawson, Brean, Rhode. And besides, once you read something where he does not put his favorite sample, you do not feel cheated in some way, while appreciating the rest? Sure, Fire, Burn! even without the crime with the compressed air would be the same as a masterpiece, but for him, for Carr, for the Master, would miss always a quid, something that made him unique: his trademark. The Locked Room or an Impossible CrimePietro De Palmahttp://deathcanread.blogspot.it/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953280070115140001.post-76293872018000991002016-03-30T17:47:51.015+02:002016-03-30T17:47:51.015+02:00I found this interesting and thought-provoking Xav...I found this interesting and thought-provoking Xavier. I, too, have occasionally had the blasphemous thought that the mechanics of locked-room got in the ways of a great story - it was nice to see the discussion laid out so well.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.com