A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch Series: Charles Lenox #1 Published by Minotaur Books on June 26th 2007 Genres: British mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery Pages: 309 Format: eBook Source: purchased Goodreads Also in this series: An Old Betrayal, The Laws of Murder, The September Society, The Fleet Street… Read more »
Tag: British mysteries
Dreaming Spies
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 Goodreads Also in this series: Locked Rooms, The Murder of Mary Russell, Locked Rooms Also by this author:… Read more »
The Crime At Black Dudley
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 Format: eBook Source: purchased 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 Sophie Hannah
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 Goodreads The bestselling novelist of all time. The world’s most famous detective. The literary event of the year. Since the publication of… Read more »
Top Ten Underrated Mystery Authors
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 (review)
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 | Barnes & Noble 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
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 »
TREASURES FROM THE HOARD: Nerve, by Dick Francis
‘Treasures from the Hoard’ are books I treasure and re-read. Description: From bestselling author Dick Francis comes the story of a struggling young jockey–a misfit in a family of accomplished musicians–who discovers that his troubling losing streak is caused not by a lack of skill or confidence, but by… Read more »
Striding Folly, by Dorothy L. Sayers (review)
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 »
Whose Body? (a Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery), by Dorothy Sayers (review)
Categories: Mystery; Classics Series: Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries #1 Publisher: Open Road Media Book source: Publisher review copy received through NetGalley Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’ classic mystery novels starring the inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey, and to borrow the slang of the day, it’s a corker. The… Read more »