Showing posts with label 2023. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2023. Show all posts
Monday, November 20, 2023

A New Stark House double feature: Too Young to Die/The Time of Terror, by Lionel White

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  97988860157 Stark House Press, 2023 270 pp paperback  (read earlier) Lionel White (1905-1985) was a rather prolific author whose writing c...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Double Murder at the Grand Hotel Miramare, by Elena and Michela Martignoni

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  9781948104241 Kazabo Publishing, 2023 originally published as Doppio delitto al Miramare , 2015 178 pp  paperback I really enjoy reading t...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

and now we come to the end -- The Four False Weapons, by John Dickson Carr

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  Berkley Books, 1957 originally published 1937 217 pp mass market paperback (read earlier in October) It's truly a pity that the Britis...

The Lost Gallows, by John Dickson Carr

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  9780712353632 British Library, 2020 256 pp paperback (read earlier) In this installment of the Bencolin series, Carr offers up a bit of de...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Castle Skull, by John Dickson Carr

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  9780712353267 British Library Crime Classics, 2020 originally published 1931 240 pp paperback (read in September) I read this book earlier...
Friday, October 6, 2023

A Woman Possessed/Prime Sucker, by Harry Whittington

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  9798886010671 Stark House, 2023 216 pp paperback (my copy from Stark House -- thanks!) It's  Booker Prize season, which has nothing a...

It Walks by Night, by John Dickson Carr

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I read this novel some time back, but I seem to be continuously playing catch up with posts.  Better late than never, I guess.  I have a lar...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

The Devil's Flute Murders, by Seishi Yokomizo

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  9781782278849 Pushkin-Vertigo, 2023 originally published 1973 as Akuma ga kitarite fue o fuku ( 悪魔が来りて笛を吹く) Translated by Jim Rion 256 pp ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

The Mill House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji

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  9781782278337 Pushkin Vertigo, 2023 originally published as Suishakan  no Satsujin Shinsou Kateiban , 1988 translated by Ho-Ling Wong 253 ...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Continuing on in catch-up mode: Death of a Stray Cat/ An Affair of the Heart, by Jean Potts

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  9798886010053 Stark House, 2023 236 pp paperback (my copy from the publisher -- thanks!)   I love reading the works of women crime writers...