Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie Series: Poirot #20 Published by William Morrow on December 15, 2003 (first published December 19, 1938) Genres: British mystery, Christmas Pages: 272 Format: Kindle or ebook Source: my personal collection Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads… December 26, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 4 ★★★½
A Beautiful Blue Death Series: Charles Lenox #1 on June 26th 2007 Pages: 309 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: An Old Betrayal, The Laws of Murder, The September Society, The Fleet Street Murders, Home By Nightfall, The Inheritance, The Woman in the Water, Gone Before Christmas, The Vanishing… Read more »
Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King Series: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #13 Published by Bantam on February 17th 2015 Genres: British mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 352 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Locked Rooms, The Murder of Mary Russell, Locked Rooms, Riviera Gold,… Read more »
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham Series: Campion #1 Published by Bloomsbury on May 6th 2014 Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 176 Source: purchased Add to Goodreads The Black Dudley is an ancient, remote mansion inhabited by the reclusive Colonel Combe, but owned by Wyatt… Read more »
The Monogram Murders by Agatha Christie, Sophie Hannah Series: Poirot Published by HarperCollins on September 9th 2014 Genres: British mystery, Mystery Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas Also by this author: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, The Man in the Brown… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Underrated Authors or Books in X genre — I chose mystery. And by “underrated”, I mean “less well-known or widely-read than they ought to be.” In a few cases,… Read more »
Heirs of the Body by Carola Dunn Series: Daisy Dalrymple #21 Published by Minotaur Books Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery Source: the library Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Anthem for Doomed Youth, Gone West, The Corpse at the Crystal Palace Also by… Read more »
An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch Series: Charles Lenox #7 Published by Macmillan on November 12th 2013 Genres: British mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 294 Source: the publisher Also in this series: The Laws of Murder, A Beautiful Blue Death, The September Society, The Fleet Street Murders, Home By Nightfall, The… Read more »
Nerve by Dick Francis Published by Fawcett on February 12, 1987 (first published 1964) Genres: British mystery, Mystery Pages: 313 Format: Paperback Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Straight, Break In Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling… Read more »
Striding Folly contains three Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, each one different in character. The first, “Striding Folly”, has a dream element unusual in Lord Peter mysteries. The second, “The Haunted Policeman”, takes place immediately after the birth of Peter and Harriet’s first son, and involves a very clever hoax. “Talboys”… Read more »
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