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Book of the Month: September 2024 and Agatha Christie Poll Results
September was not a bad month for reading, clocking up 13 books. I think my reading was more diverse from a format/style point of view as I read: 5 classic crime mysteries 1 mystery play 1 graphic...
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A Six-Letter Word for Death (1983) by Patricia Moyes
It has been around a year (give or take a couple of weeks) since I last read and reviewed a mystery by Patricia Moyes. I have a few titles by her sitting on my TBR pile, but I chose this one from the...
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A Three Dog Problem (2021)
I read the first book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series back in 2021. I remember enjoying it, but unlike my husband who has kept more up to date with the series, I have been slow to...
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The Pretty Pink Shroud (1977) by Elizabeth Ferrars
Today I am reviewing my 18th read by Elizabeth Ferrars and it is one of her non-series titles. I felt like I must have read quite a chunk of her books by now, but having looked up her bibliography, I...
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The Fifth Caller (1959) by Helen Nielsen
My reading copy of this story was from the Detective Book Club series, which produced 3 in 1 mystery fiction volumes. However, The Fifth Caller was also reprinted in 2019 by Stark House Press, in a...
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Death of an Editor (1931) by Vernon Loder
It has been three years since I have read anything by this author. Previously I have reviewed: The Mystery at Stowe (1928), The Shop Window Murders (1930) and Good by Stealth (1936), the latter title...
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The Examiner (2024) by Janice Hallett
I got this book from the library to review, which was a first for me. Not that I have never used a library before, (in my youth I bottomed one library’s children’s section, probably because I usually...
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The Edinburgh Mystery and Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2022) ed. by Martin...
The introduction to this anthology gives a brief look at the ‘long and dazzling history’ of ‘Scottish crime fiction’, with an early example being mentioned as James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and...
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The Spider-Orchid (1977) by Celia Fremlin
I selected this book to finish off my October reading, due to the great time I had with Prisoner’s Base (1967) in July. That novel received a rare 5/5 from me, so my hopes for The Spider-Orchid were...
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Book of the Month: October 2024
October flew by for various reasons, and I only managed eight reads. A lot of October was also spent trying to catch up on my September reviews, which was a reading heavy month. It is often said that...
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