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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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Murder in Miniature and Other Stories (1992; 2007) by Leo Bruce
This anthology was compiled and introduced by Barry Pike. My copy is the later paperback edition. Back in 2019 I published a ranked list of the Sergeant Beef mysteries Bruce wrote and some of the...
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Oh, Murderer Mine (1946) by Norbert Davis
This is the final book in the Doan and Carstairs comic private eye series. I absolutely loved the first novel, The Mouse in the Mountain (1943), but I was more lukewarm about Sally’s in the Alley...
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Book of the Month: January 2025
This month I have … “We interrupt this regularly scheduled book of the month post to bring you this important classic crime comic strip…” January started with a lot of catching up on my blog. I...
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Death Under the Moonflower (1938) by Todd Downing
Todd Downing, like Douglas and Dorothy Stapleton, is an author that I have enjoyed in the past, but whose work I have not returned to for a while. To date I have read several books from Downing’s Hugh...
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Ranking my British Library Crime Classics Anthology Reads
After completing my short story collection reading challenge last year, I decided it might be fun to do a ranked list of the anthologies I have read from the British Library Crime Classics series. To...
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The Blind Barber (1934) by John Dickson Carr
This was my February pick for my Green Penguin reading challenge and it then became a book group read, so I had the double incentive to get this one off the shelf! I must admit I was feeling some...
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The Night of Fear (1931) by Moray Dalton
To date I have read three other books by Dalton: The Strange Case of Harriet Hall (1936), The Art School Murders (1943) and The Condamine Case (1947). However, not only is The Night of Fear, my...
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#MurderEveryMonday Roundup: January 2025
Back in 2023 I launched a book cover sharing meme over on Twitter (a.k.a. X) and Instagram. As the hashtag suggests it takes place on a Monday and each week has a different theme. For more info here...
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The Tule Marsh Mystery (1929) by Nancy Barr Mavity
This is Nancy Barr Mavity’s first mystery novel, although prior to publication and afterwards she was a respected journalist, who often worked on crime stories. Her books are not the easiest to find...
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Gold Mask (1930-1931; 2019) by Edogawa Rampo (Trans. William Varteresian)
I have previously read a couple of Edogawa Rampo’s short stories in the collection: Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection (1987), which was edited by John L. Apostolou and Martin H....
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Death on a Tiny Scale (2024) by Julie Broussely
Julie Broussely is a new-to-me author, and this is her first mystery novel, I believe, and from the cover it looks like it is the start of a series, rather than a standalone story. I picked this book...
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Death Came Secondhand (2022) by Gertrude Lynley
Charity shops are not an overly mined setting or background for a mystery. Elizabeth Ferrars had some bloodied garments brought to a charity shop in The Pretty Pink Shroud (1977), but the charity shop...
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