Showing posts with label British mysteries/UK crime fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British mysteries/UK crime fiction. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Marble Hall Murders, by Anthony Horowitz

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  9780063305700 Harper Collins, 2025 582 pp hardcover We've just returned from a very long vacation which gave me the opportunity to rea...
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Mouthless Dead, by Anthony Quinn

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  " It was a mask -- one that he wore so determinedly it became his other self."  9780349146928 Abacus/Little, Brown Book Group, 2...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Ghosts of Society, by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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  9798886011203 Stark House Press, 2024 originally published 1908 235 pp paperback Ghosts of Society was originally published as The Distrib...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

PPL #7: Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery, by Gladys Mitchell

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  9781784708320 Vintage/Penguin Random House, 2017 originally published as Groaning Spinney , 1950 220 pp paperback Last week we found ourse...
Monday, September 9, 2024

PPL #5: The Moving Finger, by Agatha Christie

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" The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all you...
Friday, August 9, 2024

PPL#4: Murder Will Speak, by JJ Connington

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  9781616463922 Coachwhip Publications, 2016 originally published as For Murder Will Speak , 1938 287 pp paperback (read in July) I have a s...
Friday, June 28, 2024

PPL #3: Good By Stealth, by Henrietta Clandon

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  9781913054878 Dean Street Press, 2020 originally published 1936 211 pp paperback Although Good By Stealth was first published in 1936, in ...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Kiss the Blood off My Hands, by Gerald Butler

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  9798886010886 Stark House Press, 2024 originally published 1948 166 pp paperback  Just released this month, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands  i...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

PPL#2: Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers

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  9780062196538 Bourbon Street Books, 2012 originally published 1936 528 pp paperback I read this book earlier this month but as usual, it...
Monday, February 5, 2024

PPL#1: Fear Stalks the Village, by Ethel Lina White

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" The moral is, padre, that human nature remains the same, everywhere, and dark places exist in every mind."  9780712355308 Britis...
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Long Shadow, by Celia Fremlin

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  9780571348107 Faber, 2023 originally published 1975 249 pp paperback I bought this novel to read over Christmas week, but as happens a lot...
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...