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Reprint of the Year Award 2024: Nomination 2
Last week saw 10 bloggers, including myself, posting our first nominations for the 2024 Reprint of the Year Award. If you missed those posts here is a link to my own, which contains links to all the...
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Reprint of the Year Award 2024: Let’s Vote!
During the first three weeks of December I, along with nine other bloggers, have been trying our best to convince you to vote for our classic crime fiction reprint nominations. However now it is time...
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Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Seasonal Mysteries (2023) ed. by...
With this post I have finally completed my short story collection reading goal for 2024. Back in January I posted about my intention to read a short story collection each month in order to reduce my...
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2024 Short Story Challenge Complete
I decided to keep my reading challenges simple this year and just focus on one. My goal was targeted at the growing pile of short story collections on my TBR pile, and my plan was to read one...
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What did Santa bring? 2024 Edition
I think I must have been extra good this year as Santa, or rather his league of assorted elves have done themselves proud this Christmas. My TBR (and arguably my to-be-played/watched) pile is freshly...
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2025 Reading Goal: My Green Penguin Challenge
For 2024 I set myself a personal goal to read 12 of the short story collections that had been languishing on my TBR pile for a while. Earlier this month I completed this challenge, and you can see my...
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Death in Paradise: The Jigsaw (Well, one of them anyways…)
I am sure that many of you are familiar with the BBC series, Death in Paradise, set on the island of Saint Marie (a fictional location in the Caribbean). You might also be aware of the spinoff series...
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Reprint of the Year Awards 2024: The Results
There are not many hours of 2024 left, so that must mean it is time to share the results for the latest Reprint of the Year awards. Thanks must go to the bloggers who took part, the readers who...
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Dead Man’s Music (1931) by Christopher Bush
I am 5 reviews behind at the moment, so I thought I best get cracking! I read Dead Man’s Music earlier in December, which seemed seasonally appropriate as Bush’s middle name is Christmas. Charles...
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Agatha Annotated: Investigating the Books of the 1920s: Obscure Terms and...
As the title suggests this book is a glossary of over 1800 words/phrases which might be potentially unfamiliar to modern readers of Agatha Christie’s stories, providing the essential social,...
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10 Books I am Looking Forward to in 2025
It is the beginning of a new year, so it is customary for us bloggers to share some of the books we are looking forward to in the coming months. Aidan at Mysteries Ahoy has already done his. I find...
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Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (2014) by Agatha Christie
Last Autumn it occurred to me that whilst I knew about this novella, I hadn’t actually read it yet. Fortunately, Santa sent me a copy at Christmas, so I was able to remedy this deficiency before the...
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The Golden Era of Sherlock Holmes and His Contemporaries: A Mystery Guide and...
Today I am reviewing my final nonfiction read of 2024, and it is a guide looking at mystery fiction, predominantly in the short story format, from 1891, when Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘A Scandal in...
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Words for Murder Perhaps (1971) by Edward Candy
Candy is the penname of a doctor called Barbara Alison Neville (1925-1993) nee Boodson, who wrote several books, including three mysteries. Words for Murder is the final one, but the earlier two were:...
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Book of the Month: December 2024
When I counted up how many books I had read in December, the total looked quite impressive, 28. Well, it did until I counted how many of those books were Garfield collections (Answer: 12)....
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Killing Sir Edmund Godfrey: John Dickson Carr vs L. C. Tyler – A Historical...
Today’s review will be looking at two books, The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1936) by John Dickson Carr and The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey (2024). Both works are centred on a true crime, the...
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Theatre Trip: Murder on the Orient Express
Today I had the pleasure of going to the theatre with my sister and naturally we chose an Agatha Christie. This is the third one we have seen together, with other two being And Then There Were None...
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Keeper of the Keys (1932) by Earl Derr Biggers
Keeper of the Keys was the sixth and final Charlie Chan mystery and it is also January’s book group choice. I have only read one other Charlie Chan story, The Chinese Parrot (1926). Looking back over...
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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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