{"id":21208,"date":"2026-04-07T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?page_id=21208"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:32:58","slug":"malcolm-kershaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/have-experienced-them-all\/malcolm-kershaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Perfect Murders according to Malcolm Kershaw"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Swanson wrote a book called Rules for Perfect Murders. The story centres on Malcolm Kershaw, a bookseller who owns a mystery bookshop in Boston. In the story, Malcolm had written a few years ago a blog post called “Eight Perfect Murders”, listing eight mysteries that he believed were impossible to solve. Having loved Swanson’s book, I wanted to read these eight alleged unsolvable murders.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Malice Aforethought – Anthony Berkley Cox<\/span>\n
Double Indemnity – James M Cain<\/span>\n
\n The A.B.C. Murders <\/a>– Agatha Christie (1936)<\/span>\n
Strangers on a Train – Patricia Highsmith<\/span>\n
Deathtrap – Ira Levin<\/span>\n
The Drowner – John MacDowner<\/span>\n
The Red House Mystery – A A Milne<\/span>\n
The Secret History – Donna Tartt<\/span>\n
The Red House Mystery – A A Milne<\/span>\n
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Peter Swanson wrote a book called Rules for Perfect Murders. The story centres on Malcolm Kershaw, a bookseller who owns a mystery bookshop in Boston. In the story, Malcolm had written a few years ago a blog post called “Eight Perfect Murders”, listing eight mysteries that he believed were impossible to solve. Having loved Swanson’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21209,"parent":3170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21208","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21237,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21208\/revisions\/21237"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}