{"id":1038,"date":"2005-03-04T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/03\/the_hollow_man\/"},"modified":"2005-03-04T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T13:54:04","slug":"the_hollow_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/the_hollow_man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hollow Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001082.html\">Good News, Bad News<\/a>, one of the characters talked quite a lot about locked room mysteries. I decided that I probably hadn&#8217;t read enough of them myself. So I picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0752851373\">this classic novel<\/a>. John Dickson Carr is one of those people who turned out novels by the dozen, having to retain more than one publisher so that they all came out.<br \/>\nBut having been so prolific, this is about the only novel of his that&#8217;s currently in print. It&#8217;s London-set thriller with a series of seemingly impossible deaths, investigated by Dr Gideon Fell, an expert in such things.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all carried out very well, and the solution, however unlikely, is not remotely impossible and does make sense. I suppose Jonathan Creek is the only real current day successor to this type of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was reading Good News, Bad News, one of the characters talked quite a lot about locked room mysteries. I decided that I probably hadn&#8217;t read enough of them myself. So I picked up this classic novel. John Dickson Carr is one of those people who turned out novels by the dozen, having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}