Showing posts with label mystery series opener. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery series opener. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

PPL#6: The Voice of the Corpse, by Max Murray

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  9781915530318 Galileo Publishers, 2024 originally published 1947 218 pp paperback (read in August) Although The Voice of the Corpse is set...
Friday, October 6, 2023

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...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

A Puzzle for Fools, by Patrick Quentin

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 9781613161258 American Mystery Classics, Penzler Publishers originally published 1936 237 pp paperback "It had been a puzzle for fools...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Inspector Stoddard is on the case: The Man With the Dark Beard and The Crime at Tattenham Corner, by Annie Haynes

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Back in April I read the first of the series by Annie Haynes featuring as her detective a certain Inspector Stoddart of the Yard.  The Man W...
Monday, November 4, 2019

back to the 20s and my happy place again: Inspector French's Greatest Case, by Freeman Wills Crofts

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9780008190583 Collins Crime Club/Harper Collins, 2016 originally published 1924 297 pp paperback With the sun beginning to set earl...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves

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9781250204448 Minotaur/St. Martin's Press 375 pp hardcover " We all need secrets, just to keep sane, to feel that the wor...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers

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9780062307545 Bourbon Street Books, 2014 originally published 1923 213 pp paperback "Enter Sherlock Holmes disguised as a walk...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

*climbing back into my comfort zone: At the Villa Rose, by A.E.W Mason

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9780755117390 House of Stratus, 2009 originally published 1910 258 pp paperback I'm back in my happy place (aka yesteryear) onc...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Babylon Berlin, by Volker Kutscher

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9781250187048 Picador, 2018 originally published as   Der Nasse Fisch. Gereon Rath erster Fall, 2007 translated by Niall Seller 423 p...
Friday, October 13, 2017

The Wine of Angels, by Phil Rickman

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0330342681 Pan Books, 1999 629 pp paperback " It was the depressing side of country life; they all seemed to know their Pattern...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Pietr the Latvian, by Georges Simenon -- the very first Maigret novel and it's a good one.

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9780141392738 Penguin Classics, 2013 first published in serial as Pietr-le-Letton , 1930 translated by David Bellos 162 pp paperback...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

.... but first, the last book from 2016: The Bone Readers, by Jacob Ross

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9781845233358 Peepal Tree Press 270 pp paperback (read in December) " My gift was reading bones."  The Bone Readers ...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

and another badass mommy hits the streets. Sigh. Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner

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9781476775616 Scribner, 2015 279 pp hardcover  The main character of this novel is truly one of a kind -- a young woman, happily...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

a new author for me: James Sallis -- The Long-Legged Fly

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0802776205 Walker and Company, 2001 originally published 1992 200 pp paperback Well now here is something entirely different -- rat...