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22 Popular Culture Review of alibis, and the like. If I tell more, you’ll know the guilty party, thus spoiling a good read (the classic conundrum in reviewing mystery stories), but I can say that Carr’s enthusiasm for the mountain scene, his knack for peopling the heights with credible characters, nicely described, distinguish the series as a whole, not least with this first assaying. Murder on the Matterhorn (also 1951) takes Lewker out o