Guys, I've been blogging for a while and I'm just about out of steam. (This is supposed to be fun.) So I'm going to take a few w...

A preposterous book peopled with preposterous characters caught up in a preposterous plot, and yet Ngaio Marsh makes it all work. How is ...

I know most of you are probably so over my George Bellairs fixation, but get a grip - I just have to talk about this one. Yes, I'...

This   a first novel by Bee Ridgway , as such, it  has its bumpy moments and bits of clunk, but on the whole works very nicely and is - da...

I am still capable of delight when I find a book that 'wows' me and wins me over completely and DARKNESS AT PEMBERLEY more tha...

Michael Innes (1906 - 1994) What kind of fan-girl would I be if I didn't shout to the world that a whole bunch of Michael Innes ...

I remember reading this a few years ago and even more astounding, I vaguely remember having that great feeling of discovery you get when yo...

I can't help it. I love a good, florid, swash and buckle story. Always have. I've been hooked ever since I read Sabatini's  THE...

This is a re-working and lengthening of a post from nine years ago. I might be doing this (re-working older posts) for the next few weeks...

I know, I know, I shouldn't be talking about yet another Bellairs book so soon after having posted about him a couple of weeks ago. B...

One of Georgette Heyer's more entertaining Golden Age country house mysteries featuring her usual stable of rich or semi-rich English...

Not one but two books by George Bellairs , both lively and entertaining British Golden Age mysteries. Both currently available (alongside...

Yet another English police procedural by Freeman Wills Crofts , this one highlighted by three murders and a brazen kidnapping Just the kind...

Okay I admit it, I read this book because of the title. Basil Willing is one of my very favorite character names in all of literature...

And now for something a little different. This is not a forgotten or overlooked book really since it's just newly published, but I&...