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Book: Fiction - The curious case of the dog that didn't move

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020317
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The Grenadillo Box

By Janet Gleeson

BANTAM pounds 12.99

The period whodunnit presents its reader with a peculiar problem. If the story setting predates the period of Wilkie Collins (and late Dickens), it has the potential to be horribly anachronistic. This hasn't stopped a host of novelists turning everyone from Friar Tuck to Geoffrey Chaucer into detectives, examining herbal potions for poisonous ingredients and relying rather heavily on bloody footprints for signs of culpability. The genre is fraught with perils: it's easy to be seduced by historical detail and completely lose sight of ...

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