Clearly at ease with the conventions of classic crime, he deftly utilises the tropes of the genre to subvert expectations and keep both his erstwhile detectives Gwen Mulvey and Malcolm Kershaw, and the reader, on their toes. Peter Swanson appears to have written Rules for Perfect Murders (published as Eight Perfect Murders in the USA) with tongue firmly in-cheek. If you want to delight a mystery lover like myself, you really can’t go wrong with a plot like that! Crime novels that all appear on a blog post written by the owner of a mystery bookshop. Owner Malcolm Kershaw had once posted online an article titled ‘My Eight Favourite Murders,’ and there seems to be a deadly link between the deaths and his list – which includes Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.Ĭan the killer be stopped before all eight of these perfect murders have been re-enacted?Ī serial killer seems to be murdering their victims in-keeping with the ‘spirit’ of classic crime novels. The deaths lead FBI Agent Gwen Mulvey to mystery bookshop Old Devils. If you want to get away with murder, play by the rulesĪ series of unsolved murders with one thing in common: each of the deaths bears an eerie resemblance to the crimes depicted in classic mystery novels.
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