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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
20240619

A Happy 10th Anniversary to Death in the High City

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Successful decade for Bergamo’s first British crime novel  Death in the High City, the first detective novel written in English to be set in...
20240416

Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham

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  Readers see Campion at work when his emotions become involved Campion is called in to investigate when the leading man in a hit West E...
20230929

Thirteen Guests by J Jefferson Farjeon

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An intriguing mystery told with humour and well-drawn characters The British Library edition of Farjeon's Thirteen Guests   Thirteen...
20230220

Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay

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A classic mystery novel set in and around the Northern Line The British Library Crime Classics edition of Murder Underground  Murder Under...
20230210

Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh

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Alleyn falls in love but he still has to be professional and solve the murder Artists in Crime was Marsh's sixth novel featuring Roderic...
20230205

Miss Silver Intervenes by Patricia Wentworth

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A blend of blackmail, murder and romance makes for an intriguing mystery Miss Silver Intervenes is the sixth Miss Silver mystery We learn...
20230201

The Devil at Saxon Wall by Gladys Mitchell

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Madness and witchcraft in a village that seems to be living in the Middle Ages The Devil at Saxon Wall is the sixth Mrs Bradley mystery P...
20230119

The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers

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Novel's fascinating format makes for a compelling and ingenious murder mystery The Documents in the Case is notable for its experimenta...
20230112

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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An award winning masterpiece by the Queen of Crime The latest HarperCollins reprint of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christies’s sixt...
20230108

The Lawyer’s Story of a Stolen Letter by Wilkie Collins

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An early attempt at detective fiction by a Victorian novelist A portrait of Wilkie Collins by John Everett Millais The English novelist Wi...
20221123

Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer

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An author famous for Regency romances has a stab at a country house mystery The Cornerstone edition of Footsteps in the Dark Prolific writ...
20221111

Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

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Campion risks his life to try to bring an audacious killer to justice   The Vintage edition of  Death of a Ghost Death of a Ghost, Margery A...