Mike Ripley is well-known for writing the Albert Campion continuation novels, but today’s read, a standalone modern mystery, is my first experience of his work. I was intrigued by the premise of Buried Above Ground, and it has a character who is a Golden Age Detective fiction blogger, so it was a hard one to pass up! In the author’s note, Ripley states that ‘this is not a conventional crime novel, rather a novel about writing crime novels, written by someone who has probably read too many. There are numerous references to well-known writers and their books hidden within […]’ Going into this read, I was looking forward to trying to spot these references.
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