There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
The year is 1920. Kaiser Wilhelm II has abdicated. The Treaty of Versailles has been imposed signed. Contours and colours of possession have changed across the globe. The sun still doesn't set over the British Empire. Time perhaps to put the past behind... The Prince of Storytellers, however, has different ideas. In 1920 comes his … Continue reading # The 1920 Club: E.P. Oppenheim’s The Great Impersonation
What happened was that they'd all taken the easiest way out, Harl thought. They'd let a man get away with murder because they didn't have the gumption to stand up to him. Maybe they were afraid of gettin' hurt, or maybe they were afraid to take the side of a dead meskin against another white man. … Continue reading Unforgettable Book: A Time For Hanging by Bill Crider
What Happened At Hazelwood by Michael InnesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Only Innes can conjure up such make-belief and make it convincing."Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss..."First Line: Nobody could have predicted just what has happened at Hazelwood, and at the moment it appears as if nobody can elucidate it either.Pages: 237Source: … Continue reading Review: What Happened At Hazelwood
Hag's Nook by John Dickson CarrMy rating: 3 of 5 stars The first Dr. Fell. An atmospheric tale with a decent mystery. However, it also revealed to me the problems that I have with Carr. Except for The Burning Court, which I loved, and He Who Whispers, which I hated, I find it difficult to … Continue reading Hag’s Nook by John Dickson Carr
The Hog's Back Mystery by Freeman Wills CroftsMy rating: 3 of 5 stars This review contains SPOILERS. So please do not read it unless you have read the book as this gives away the murderer.Opening Lines: “Ursula! I am glad to see you!” Julia Earle moved forward to the carriage door to greet the tall, … Continue reading Review: The Hog’s Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
An Old-Fashioned Mystery by Runa FairleighMy rating: 3 of 5 stars A post-modern look at the genre of mystery. I was getting mighty tired of it, till I read the last part, and that quite redeemed the entire book for me.First Line: "'This chutney tastes a bit off to me,' the major said. View all … Continue reading Review: An Old-Fashioned Mystery
Anthony Gilbert is the pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973), member of the Detection Club and author of some seventy novels, a majority of which feature Arthur Crook, a lawyer from London, whom Gilbert deliberately created, in 1936, as a foil to the aristocratic amateur detectives who dominated the literary crime scene at the time.Death … Continue reading The #1947 Club: Death in the Wrong Room by Anthony Gilbert
I had heard of Edgar Wallace even before I started blogging but have been able to read him only this month. Steve @ Stuck in a Book launched the 1924 Club and keen to read a mystery published in that year, I found to my delight that there was a Wallace written in that year. … Continue reading Forgotten Book: The Face in the Night by Edgar Wallace (1924)
Cyril Hare is the pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, an English judge and writer of mysteries. I had heard of Hare but had not read him before reading his most popular book: An English Murder. First published in 1951, this is a Country House mystery in which the merry season of Christmas turns into … Continue reading Forgotten Book: An English Murder by Cyril Hare
The Right Reverend Gerald William Kinghorn, Bishop of Fencaster, is going through his correspondence one January afternoon when his much-harassed chaplain brings him the card of one Reverend Jonathan Derby who is waiting for the bishop to grant him an audience. At first, the name means nothing to the Bishop and then he recalls that … Continue reading Forgotten Book: Death Takes the Living by Miles Burton (1949)
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