For the first time this year I am going to participate in the Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge at My Reader’s Block. The challenge is to read at least 8, and hopefully 16, pre-1960 classic crime novels in the following categories: … Continue reading
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February was a slow month for reading, and even slower for reviewing. I only managed four books, and only one from my CWA list, further endangering my plan to finish it this year. As I’ve spent much of the month … Continue reading
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OK, OK, I missed last month’s classic crime update. (What do you mean, you didn’t notice?) Anyway, I’m going to make up for it by covering two months with one post. This time, I decided to venture off the beaten … Continue reading
I have no idea what a Proust questionnaire is, but they seem to have caught ACD on a grumpy day. I’ve commented before about his nice handwriting. Here’s your chance to have a look… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The author’s … Continue reading
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Leslie S. Kilnger, who edited one of my most prized books (actually three books), The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, has launched a blog site to chronicle his legal battle with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Klinger wants a … Continue reading
‘Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot were defiantly asexual. What did Sir Doyle and Agatha Christie have against sex?’ asks Christopher Wallace in Salon.com.
The Telegraph says the forthcoming BBC adaptation of Jamaica Inn will be filmed in Northern Ireland, rather than Bodmin Moor. A spokeswoman for the BBC said: BBC Northern Ireland Drama have been developing Jamaica Inn with Origin Pictures for over … Continue reading
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Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier First published in the UK 1936, Victor Gollancz Ltd This edition: Virago Modern Classics, 2003 ISBN: 9781844080397 302 pages Score 4/5 ‘Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica any more. That’s all I know. In the old … Continue reading
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This has probably been the most varied month of crime-fiction-devouring that I’ve had since beginning this blog. I began by finishing C. J. Sansom’s Heartstone – a massive read at over 700 pages. Sansom’s Shardlake series spans the second half of … Continue reading
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Earlier in the week I took advantage of being in London for work and visited the British Library’s Murder in the Library, an A-Z of Crime Fiction. This is a lovely little exhibition of crime books and ephemera that takes … Continue reading
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