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The Ghost It Was (1936) by Richard Hull
This is the first book in my 2025 Green Penguin reading project and having looked it up, it seems that I have not read any book by Hull since December 2019. The primary reason for this being the lack...
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Tea on Sunday (1973) by Lettice Cooper
It is a happy accident that I have ended up reviewing Cooper’s Tea on Sunday, on a Sunday, but the point amused me nevertheless when I realised it. The title of today’s read is the kind that my mum...
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A Touch of Danger (1987) by Francis Durbridge
A Touch of Danger is Francis Durbridge’s 6th play, and it was first performed on 21st of July 1987 at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. The Samuel French copy of the play, which is what I read, was...
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Tails of Mystery: The Amulet of Thar’ishdom – Part 4 by Asa Wheatley...
This is the final segment in this four-part series, detailing an investigation led by a private eye called Samuel Wyatt, who in part one of this series ended up turning into a cat (who incidentally...
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Mr Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023)
When I heard this film was in production, I was super excited, as I really enjoyed the original TV series and over the last two years, I have read the Lee Goldberg written tie-in novels. At the start...
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Death Sends for the Doctor (1957) by George Bellairs
Unsure what reading mood I was in, I decided to pick up a Bellairs mystery, as they tend to be reliable, undemanding reads. Last year I reviewed Half-Mast for the Deemster (1953), which is set on the...
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My 1900th Post: It’s all in the Blurb. Or is it? Marketing Agatha Christie’s...
With my blog’s ten-year anniversary coming up this summer, I possibly have the optimistic goal of reaching 2000 posts by then, so we best get cracking with this one! For my 1900th post I decided to...
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Nine Days’ Murder (1945) by Allan Mackinnon
Today’s read was gifted to me by a kind blog reader, who thought it might interest me. It certainly did, as Mackinnon is not an author I have tried before, and he is not one I would have been likely...
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Late for the Funeral (1953) by Douglas & Dorothy Stapleton
All the way back in 2018 I read The Corpse is Indignant (1946) by this writing duo and on the whole I very much enjoyed it. I meant to try more mysteries by them, but it has taken me a little longer...
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Mr Monk Gets Even (2013) by Lee Goldberg
This is the final Adrian Monk mystery written by Goldberg, and knowing that put me off starting it, as I didn’t want it all to end. Hopefully, I am not the only one who has done this before. In the...
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