Tag: Mysteries

A Baker’s Dozen: Unknown Authors 2017

I purchased a number of books from the World Book Fair at Delhi. Predictably, a majority of them were crime/ mysteries. Some of the authors and books, I had heard about but never read but there were quite a few totally unfamiliar to me. Have you read these books or authors? What do you think … Continue reading A Baker’s Dozen: Unknown Authors 2017 →

A Baker’s Dozen: Favourite Mystery Reads of 2014

Last Year, I read more than 80 books and of these more than 50 were mysteries. And now the time comes to make a list of my favourites. I have only included mysteries that I read for the first time in 2014 thus Christie's And Then There Were None (which I re-read for the umpteenth … Continue reading A Baker’s Dozen: Favourite Mystery Reads of 2014 →

Forgotten Books: A Murder Staged: Anthony Gilbert’s The Musical Comedy Crime

I experienced a sense of deja vu while reading Anthony Gilbert's The Musical Comedy Crime. A man is murdered and Inspector Field investigates. He zooms in on one suspect and despite misgivings arrests him. Then Scott Egerton, the Liberal politician- detective of Gilbert's early novels (before the advent of her most masterly creation, Arthur Crook) … Continue reading Forgotten Books: A Murder Staged: Anthony Gilbert’s The Musical Comedy Crime →

Forgotten Book: Black Plumes by Margery Allingham

British mystery writer, Margery Allingham, is known for her series featuring Scotland sleuth Albert Campion, but she also wrote a number of stand-alone novels. Black Plumes is one such.Frances Ivory is a troubled young lady. Her father, Meyrick Ivory, the owner of a prestigious art gallery is touring the world and in his absence the … Continue reading Forgotten Book: Black Plumes by Margery Allingham →

Tozai Mystery Best 100: So how many have you read?

I love going through lists, especially of books and movies. To tick-off a book read or a movie seen gives me great pleasure. Recently I came across this list of top 100 mystery novels, published by Japanese magazine Shūkan Bunshun (The Weekly Bunshun) in 1985. A revised edition, of 50 books, was published in 2012.Here are … Continue reading Tozai Mystery Best 100: So how many have you read? →

The Night was thick and heavy as Velvet: Knut Hamsun’s Mysteries

When you have a book titled Mysteries, the author is the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, and critics say that the whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Knut Hamsun, than of course, it is going to be on your wishlist.And the beginning does seem to fulfilling your expectations. … Continue reading The Night was thick and heavy as Velvet: Knut Hamsun’s Mysteries →