Cover of the month, courtesy of the British Library
It’s been a lovely old-fashioned reading month here at Past Offences, with a definite Golden Age feel.
A. A. Milne: The Red House Mystery – a dilettante sleuth investigates the death of a control-freak patron of the arts. Raymond Chandler hated it, but I thought it was good clean fun.
Edgar Wallace: The Angel of Terror – a potboiler distinguished by a wonderfully callous female villain with her sights set on another woman’s fortune.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (review to come) – two collections of the mystery stories which helped forge the genre.
Christopher St John Sprigg’s Death of an Airman (review to come) – an Australian Bishop helps unravel a murder at an airfield, which intersects with a Scotland Yard narcotics investigation.
Book of the month? Elementary, surely… well, it would be graceless not to acknowledge Holmes and Watson.
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