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)
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Two Nineteenth Century Novels
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