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If you don't like to read police procedural mysteries, you probably won't like the books of Freeman Wills Croft . Happily for me...

Joan Coggin is yet another mystery writer I hadn't heard of until recently. Her Lady Lupin series would probably have remained unreme...

Three Full Length Novels: AND BE A VILLAIN, THE SECOND CONFESSION and IN THE BEST FAMILIES. I'm rereading the Arnold Zeck trilogy in...

The gorgeous artwork of contemporary Irish painter Henry McGrane . This is my first year-end round-up after many years of blogging and ...

I haven't been a big fan of Albert Campion, Margery Allingham's Golden Age detective, since I watched a couple of episodes of t...

From our house to yours: MERRY CHRISTMAS and a very happy NEW YEAR. May the new year usher in peace, rationality and better times ahe...

"...In the taxi which bore him from Victoria to his house in Knightsbridge, Anthony Ruthven Gethryn shivered. There is no contrast m...

This was my first Bill Crider book (shame on me) and the first in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series begun in 1986. Based on this one book, I...

This is a complete re-tooling of a post from 2010 when many of us were not yet aware of each other's blogs and/or of our various predile...

Just so you know, Henri Bencolin is my favorite John Dickson Carr sleuth. However this particular book is one I've never read before ...