{"id":4957,"date":"2009-11-08T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2010-01-04T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:19:34","slug":"book-report-murdercon-by-richard-purtill-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/book-report-murdercon-by-richard-purtill-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Murdercon by Richard Purtill (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book was sold by Doubleday Science Fiction, but really it&#8217;s a mystery set at a science fiction convention.  The book is thus very reminiscient of <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/book-report-murder-at-aba-by-isaac.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Murder at the ABA<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In it, a professor who has written some science fiction becomes embroiled in a series of murders that seem to revolve around a rare science fiction pulp magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad read, ultimately.  It&#8217;s an old science fiction book, though, in its pacing and printing.  Do you know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.ebay.com\/Murdercon-Richard-L-Purtill-1982-Book-\/4792409?_fifpts=1&#038;_pcatid=4&#038;_refkw=murdercon&#038;_trksid=p3286.c0.m504\" target=\"_blank\">Murdercon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was sold by Doubleday Science Fiction, but really it&#8217;s a mystery set at a science fiction convention. The book is thus very reminiscient of Murder at the ABA. In it, a professor who has written some science fiction becomes embroiled in a series of murders that seem to revolve around a rare science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}