There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
Antoinette Jason is at her wit's end. Her husband, General Reginald Jason, once pitted to become the c-in-c of the armed forces in India before filial duty made him resign from his commission and return to England has not been heard of a year and more. Before his leaving England for an adventure of his … Continue reading #1940 Club: The Disappearance of General Jason by P. C. Wren
There are minor spoilers in this post so please consider yourself warned. Then why did hope persist? Why this upward striving, this eternal climbing by himself and these ill-assorted people, castaways in a floating tomb, the odds on whose chances for rescue were astronomical? A group of people, herded together because of some natural calamity … Continue reading Earthshaker: The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (1969)
After the twenty-first century, time to go back and revisit the nineteenth century.THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB (1886)Cover image of the first edition @ WikipediaThe Mystery of a Hansom Cab is the first novel of English writer, Fergus Hume. Set in the city of Melbourne, the mystery involves the murder of a man in … Continue reading Two Nineteenth Century Novels
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