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20240218
Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh
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The story of a theatrical entertainment that starts with a bang Ngaio Marsh was one of the four 'Queens of Crime' in detective ficti...
20240215
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers
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Background romance adds extra interest to investigation The 2016 Hodder edition of the novel, first published in 1932 Lord Peter Wimsey’s ...
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...
20240131
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
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Writer’s eighth novel is far from ‘disappointing’ The cover of the 2015 edition published by HarperCollins Six years before Agatha Christi...
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...
20231021
Death Comes at Christmas by Gladys Mitchell
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A murky tale of murder among the Morris men and pig farmers The Vintage edition of Death Comes at Christmas We get a glimpse of Mrs Bradl...
20231010
Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham
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Mystery novel tells readers more about Albert Campion The Vintage edition of Flowers for the Judge Campion is pushed to his limits when...
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