Short Notes: Great Detective Stories

While I love reading mystery novels, the short-story in the same genre doesn't excite me that much. However, I did like this Watermill Classic which has five stories in which either a burglary or murder is investigated by a detective (and his faithful side-kick).In Arthur Conan Doyle' s The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Sherlock Holmes and …

Review: The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Profound Relief! That was the feeling that I experienced after finishing Pat Conroy's saga about the sufferings of a (US) Southern family. And at 650 pages plus, the suffering was way too long...Tom Wingo, who had once settled down to be a mediocre man but has ended up as a failure, receives a visit from …