Tag Archives: Mary Roberts Rinehart

‘You waited for anything and everything these days’: #1945book reviews

Posted on May 1, 2016 by pastoffences

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Every month on Past Offences we play Crimes of the Century, in which a rag-tag band of bloggers choose mystery books or films from a particular year. In April we were reading 1945 – the War didn’t seem to slow … Continue reading →

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Avery Hopwood: The Bat

Posted on September 23, 2015 by pastoffences

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Late last year I read Mary Robert Rinehart’s ‘had I but known’ classic The Circular Staircase. I really took to the narrator, Miss Rachel Innes, who in her old age is ready for adventure. It’s… the story of how a middle-aged spinster … Continue reading →

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‘I’ve been severely touched’ #1915book results

Posted on February 1, 2015 by pastoffences

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Every month on Past Offences, we focus on the crime fiction of a particular year. To celebrate the new year this January, I went back 100 years to 1915, honestly expecting rather a thin crop of reviews. To my surprise – and probably … Continue reading →

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