Showing posts with label 1930s crime fiction and mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1930s crime fiction and mysteries. Show all posts
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Obscure, yes, but oh so good: The Six Queer Things, by Christopher St. John Sprigg

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978193910694 Valancourt Books, 2018 originally published 1937 222 pp paperback " ... the whole web of horror behind th...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

... and the first crime novel of 2017 is Death on the Cherwell, by Mavis Doriel Hay

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9780712357265 British Library Crime Classics, 2014 originally published 1935 286 pp paperback This past July I read my first book b...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

another winner from Pushkin Vertigo: I Was Jack Mortimer, by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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9781782271154 Pushkin Vertigo, 2015 originally published as Ich war Jack Mortimer, 1933 translated by Ignat Avsey 186 pp paperback ...
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

another British Library Crime Classic, and it's a good one: Murder of a Lady: A Scottish Mystery, by Anthony Wynne

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9781484205712 Poisoned Pen Press, 2016 originally published 1931 297 pp paperback " ...there's something wrong with this h...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

*Some Must Watch, by Ethel Lina White

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World Publishing Company Forum Books Motion Picture Edition, 1946 256 pp originally published as Some Must Watch, 1933 hardcover Th...
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

from the British reading room: Murder Underground, by Mavis Doriel Hay

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97807122357258 British Library Crime Classics, 2014 originally published 1934 286 pp paperback " The annals of murder are ridd...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

*Detour, by Martin M. Goldsmith

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9781617209321 Black Curtain Press, 2013 (originally published 1939) 145 pp paperback "...like the lions and the spiders and th...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

a little belladonna with your bovril broth? The Deadly Dowager, by Edwin Greenwood

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9781943910380 Valancourt Books, 2016 (originally published 1934) 233 pp paperback " There's only one thing that matters, ....
Friday, May 20, 2016

* back to the movies we go: No Orchids for Miss Blandish, by James Hadley Chase

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9780615336268 Bruin Books, 2010 203 pp paperback Rant. After finishing this book, I went back to the front pages where there is a...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

another dynamic duo during dedicated down days, this time from Valancourt Books: Wax, by Ethel Lina White and Gilded Needles, by Michael McDowell

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 Valancourt Books publishes old crime fiction, supernatural fiction, horror fiction and long-ago forgotten novels, and they've kept me ...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

and we're back, with a Pushkin Vertigo double feature: The Murdered Banker and The Hotel of the Three Roses, by Augusto de Angelis

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I have just loved the Pushkin Vertigo books I've read so far, enough to where I've preordered every single book with this imprint...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

In which "Meddlesome Matty [nearly] came to a bad end" : Murder in Stained Glass, by Margaret Armstrong

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9780993235702 Pepik Books, 2015 originally published in 1939 182 pp paperback Murder in Stained Glass  is the opener of a new serie...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

a cracking-good yarn: Darkness at Pemberley, by T.H. White

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04862336137 Dover, 1978 originally published 1932, Victor Gollancz 286 pp paperback Not to be at all confused with P.D. James' ...
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Saturday, December 5, 2015

A Shilling for Candles, by Josephine Tey -- a reread

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0684842386 Scribner, 1998 originally published 1936 238 pp Having just recently finished Jennifer Morag Henderson's excellent bio...
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