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...

Classic Comfort Movie Blogathon What better way to celebrate National Classic Movie Day t han with a bunch of movie mavens dishing abo...

Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919) English painter Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (1893 - 1965) American illustrator Amos...

Not really forgotten except maybe by a few poor unfortunates who are not familiar with the wonderfulness of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe bo...

I am currently listening - for the umpteenth time - to CARDS ON THE TABLE narrated by Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings in the original ser...