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Showing posts with label Christmas Spirit Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Spirit Challenge. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

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  Hercule Poirot's Christma s (1938) by Agatha Christie (read by Hugh Fraser) From all appearances Simeon Lee is looking for a good old-...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

The Clocks

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  The Clocks (1963) by Agatha Christie (read by Robin Bailey) This is a reread for me (as are nearly all Christie stories) and I reviewed i...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The Death at Yew Corner

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  The Death at Yew Corner (1980) Richard Forrest Dr. Fabian "Faby" Bunting was a force to be reckoned with. An opinionated former...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Spare Time for Murder

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 Manders End, I thought. Yes, I would drive there now in the Pardiso and stay the night in one of those nice sounding pubs. That was how the...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

A Christmas Carol

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 A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens, performed by Sir Patrick Stewart (1991) With all the adaptations of A Christmas Carol out the...
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Friday, December 24, 2021

In the Crypt with a Candlestick

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  In the Crypt with a Candlestick (2021) by Daisy Waugh Sir Ecgbert Tode has finally shuffled off this mortal coil and his widow, the still...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Fan Fiction

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  Fan Fiction (2021) by Brent Spiner (with Jeanne Darst) Brent Spiner spins a tale loosely based on real events to show what happens when f...
Monday, December 20, 2021

The Man Who Died Twice

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 The Man Who Died Twice (2021) by Richard Osman The septuagenarians of Cooper's Chase retirement home are off on another murderous adve...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Murder at Kensington Gardens

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  Murder at Kensington Gardens (2018) by Lee Strauss Lady Ginger Gold takes her dog "Boss" (short for Boston) for a walk in Kensi...

Reprint of the Year: Murder in the French Room

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 For the last several years, Kate at  Cross Examining Crime  has been rounding up the vintage mystery bloggers and having us perpetuate her ...
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Thursday, December 16, 2021

A Surprise for Christmas

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  A Surprise for Christmas (2020) by Martin Edwards (ed) Another fine collection of mysterious Christmas tidings put together by Edwards an...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Still Life with Murder--slightly spoilerish

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  Still Life with Murder (2003) by P. B. Ryan Set in Boston, 1800s. The Hewitt family is one of the wealthy elite who have lost sons to the ...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

Murder at the Mortuary

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 Murder at the Mortuary (2020) by Lee Strauss The previous book left us with a cliffhanger. Ginger Gold had been investigating two mysterie...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

The Christmas Card Crime

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  The Christmas Card Crime & Other Stories by Martin Edwards (ed) A third collection from the British Library's Crime Classics seri...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Silent Nights

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  Silent Nights (2015) by Martin Edwards (ed)  One of several seasonal Golden Age short story collections put together by the British Libra...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Murder under the Mistletoe

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  Murder under the Mistletoe by Jennifer Jordan Barry and Dee Vaughan take a holiday in Italy where they get their first glimpse of Miranda...

Spence & the Holiday Murders

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  Spence & the Holiday Murders (1977) by Michael Allen This is the first book of three which Allen wrote about Superintendent Ben Spence...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Murder at Feathers & Flair

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  Murder at Feathers & Flair (2018) by Lee Strauss Lady Ginger Gold has opened a new dress shop in Regent Street called Feathers & ...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Death in High Heels

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  Death in High Heels (1941) by Christianna Brand Brand's debut mystery takes place in a posh dress shop where Mr. Frank Bevan, propriet...