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Classic Crime Reprints of 2023: My ShortlistThis weekend sees the first nominations being revealed for the 2023 Reprint of the Year Award. My last two posts have wittered on about this, but...
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2023’s Vintage Mystery Mystery Reprints: A ListAs promised here is a list of all the classic crime novels and short stories collections that I have found have been reprinted in 2023. Numbers...
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Reprint of the Year Award 2023: The LaunchIt is the first Saturday of December, so it is time to launch the 5th Reprint of the Year award, before I dash off to put up my Christmas tree. If...
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A Year with Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: November 1951With clocks across the land counting down to the moment when we can all start opening our advent calendars, I thought I would try my best to...
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A Well-Earned Death (2023) by L. C. TylerThis is the 9 th book in the Sir John Grey historical mystery series, although it is in fact my first experience of it. Previously I had only...
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Murder Most Cold (2023) by Victoria DowdThis is the fifth book in the Smart Woman’s Mystery series. Upon reading the blurb for this novel I felt confident this was going to be a great...
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Crime Writers Association: What Has Non-Fiction Ever Done For Us?In 1953 John Creasey founded the Crime Writers Association (CWA), with the aim of supporting and promoting authors working in that field. Now...
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Homicide on Hydra: George Johnston’s Crime Novels (2023) by Derham GrovesThis is the second book by Groves that I reviewed, having in 2021 looked at Sherlock in the Seventies: A Wild Decade of Sherlock Holmes Films ....
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Poisoned Chalice (1959) by Anne HockingI have known of this author for a while, but this has been my first opportunity to try her work. She seems to have been a prolific writer, writing...
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Who Killed the Curate? (1944) by Joan CogginThis was a festive re-read for me, that I read for the first time just under a decade ago. Who Killed the Curate? is the first story in the four...
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The 12 Days of Murder (2023) by Andreina CordaniThis Christmas read was recommended to me by the Puzzle Doctor who blogs at In Search of the Classic Crime Novel . It even won his Puzzly of...
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Book of the Month: September and October 2023It was not my intention to start doing these roundups in bunches of two, but once again it seems to have worked out that way. Other commitments...
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A Year with Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: October 1951With this review, I have finally got to the end of my October reviewing backlog (nobody mention November’s…). This issue was the magazine’s 10 th...
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Curiosity Killed the Cat (1949) by Joan CockinEarlier this year my book group read Cockin’s second mystery, Villainy at Vespers (1949), which I really enjoyed, especially for its prose...
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Where Should You Start with Clifford Witting’s Mysteries? A Ranked ListWhen writing my latest review for Witting’s The Case of the Michaelmas Goose (1938), I realised I had read 9 of his books to date. This reading...
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The Case of the Michaelmas Goose (1938) by Clifford WittingThis is the third Inspector Charlton mystery that Witting published, but it is my 9 th read by him, so I thought I might do a post ranking my...
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The Doors Open (1949) by Michael GilbertWhen I haven’t read an author for a while, I tend to look up the last time that I did, and I am then usually surprised by how long it has been....
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Death and the Conjuror (2022) by Tom MeadI was interested in reading this mystery, as I knew its’ author was someone who has a love for Golden Age Detective fiction and whose...
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Recipes for Murder: 66 Dishes that Celebrate the Mysteries of Agatha Christie (2023) by Karen PierceToday’s review is a first for the blog, as I’ve never reviewed a cookbook before. Naturally it is not any old cookbook, but an Agatha Christie...
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A Trio of Agatha Christie Comic Books: The Big Four, Evil Under the Sun and Dead Man’s FollyI am not the biggest reader of comic books or graphic novels, although I have always been a big fan of Garfield. A month ago, I borrowed three...
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A Year with Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September 1951Despite my blog reviewing backlog I am still managing to read one Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine ( EQMM ) issue a month and I have to admit...
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The Album (1933) by Mary Roberts RinehartAs is becoming quite common this year, I am in blogging arrears i.e., I am still needing to catch up on reviewing my September reads and today is...
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The Theft of the Iron Dogs (1946) by E. C. R. LoracFittingly, this is a September-set book, which I managed to read in September! It is a shame I didn’t manage to review it in that month too, but...
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THE COFFEE AND CLASSIC CRIME ADVENT CALENDAR: The 2023 LaunchI am sure it has been noted in all of your diaries that today is the day that the Coffee and Crime Classic Crime Advent Calendar is being launched...
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Scarecrow (1945) by Eaton K. GoldthwaiteThis is the first time I have read something by this author. Goldthwaite (1907-1994) was not a prolific author (in comparison to some of his crime...
