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Showing posts with label Cosy crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cosy crime. 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...
20240211

Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

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No Oxford degree for author but she found a good setting for a crime novel The murder at the heart of this mystery occurs on the River Cherw...
20231103

The Clock Strikes 12 by Patricia Wentworth

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Victim sets a New Year deadline for his own murder The Clock Strikes Twelve is the seventh Miss Silver mystery James Paradine, a wealthy bu...
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...
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...
20221230

Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon

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A ‘creepy’ Christmas story with all the classic festive ingredients John Jefferson Farjeon was a journalist who went on to be a successful...
20221030

Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell

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Inoffensive’ female victim had a long list of enemies The Death at the Opera edition published by Vintage Publishing Mrs Bradley uses all h...
20221016

Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

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Novelist draws on her love for New Zealand and the theatre Vintage Murder begins as Roderick Alleyn makes a train journey across New Zeal...
20220930

The true identity of detective novelist Michael Innes

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Academic created a series detective who went on to have a 50-year career The cover of the Agora Books edition of the first Appleby novel Mic...
20220914

Danger Point by Patricia Wentworth

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Not so much a whodunit, more a question of who is trying to do it Danger Point was first  published in 1941 The self-effacing, elderly lad...
20220815

Murder in Blue

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Author was a bank clerk by day and a novelist by night A new edition of Murder in Blue was published in 2021 Clifford Witting, who was bor...