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Showing posts with label Birth Year Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birth Year Challenge. Show all posts
Monday, December 28, 2020

Vicki Finds the Answer

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  Vicki Finds the Answer (1947) by Helen Wells In Vicki's second adventure since becoming an airline stewardess, she befriends a troubl...

The Clue of the Runaway Blonde/The Clue of the Hungry Horse

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 The Clue of the Runaway Blonde (1947) by Erle Stanley Gardner First of two novellas featuring Sheriff Bill Eldon. Eldon is an old-fashione...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

The Whispering Death

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 The Whispering Death (1947; 1st US printing*) by Roy Vickers The Whisperer holds all of London in a grip of terror--holding innocent victi...
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Saturday, November 21, 2020

By Hook or By Crook

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  By Hook or by Crook * (1947; 1st US publication) by Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Malleson) Normally Arthur Crook, lawyer-cum-private detective, i...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

The Chinese Nightmare

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Chinese Nightmare (1947) by Hugh Pentecost Johnny Curtain, a former POW in WWII and a pretty darn good piano player, wakes up, disorien...
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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Silver Wings for Vicki

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People have to dream, darling--dream, and make their dreams come true. Why, that's how the world goes on. (p. 6) Silver Wings for Vi...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Birth Year Reading Challenge 2020

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Well, I did better in 2019 in reading for J.G.'s Birth Year Reading Challenge than the previous year, but I still have a large numb...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The Restless Corpse

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The Restless Corpse (1947) by Alan Pruitt Don Carson, the Chicago Globe 's top crime reporter, is tapped by "Old Man Holiday,...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

The Fate of the Immodest Blonde

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The Fate of the Immodest Blonde (aka Puzzle for Pilgrims; 1947) by Patrick Quentin [Hugh Wheeler & Richard Webb] Peter Duluth's w...
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Monday, September 2, 2019

And Hope to Die: Mini-Review

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And Hope to Die (1947) by Richard Powell When his wife Arabella (Arab for short) talks him into a vacation in Florida, all Andy Blake wan...
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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Dr. Fell, Detective & Other Stories

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Dr. Fell, Detective & Other Stories (1947) by John Dickson Carr (intro by Ellery Queen) is a collection of eight short stories--five st...
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Friday, May 24, 2019

Miss Agatha Doubles for Death

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I know I should have had a nice young man handy, and we'd have gone round asking questions and finding clues, and in the last chapter,...
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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Murder at the Mardi Gras

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Murder at the Mardi Gras (1947) by Elisabet M. Stone Maggie Slone, a reporter for New Orleans' leading afternoon daily newspaper, is ...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Final Curtain: Review

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Final Curtain (1947) by Ngaio Marsh finds Agatha Troy waiting for her husband's return from several years of war work in New Zealand an...
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Monday, December 17, 2018

Birth Year Reading Challenge 2019

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Well...I failed miserably at J.G.'s Birth Year Reading Challenge for 2018. I took advantage of the option to read from the birth yea...
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Thursday, November 1, 2018

What Beckoning Ghost: Review

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...Mr. Tuke had gratuitously meddled (to quote the Director again) in conundrums which came his way out of office hours. A taste for meddlin...
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Saturday, June 9, 2018

Untidy Murder: Review

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In Untidy Murder (1947) by Frances & Richard Lockridge, Pam and Jerry North must use all their intuition and sometimes goofy logic to h...
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