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Showing posts with label Family Tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Tree. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Challenge Complete: Family Tree

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Becky at Becky's Book Reviews hosted another round of the Family Tree Reading Challenge. This year there were more options to choose ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Eyes at the Window

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Eyes at the Window (1966) by George Selmark Do you ever get the feeling when you're reading a book that you're swimming against a...
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

The Noel Coward Murder Case

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The Noel Coward Murder Case (1992) by George Baxt It is 1935 in New York City. Noel Coward has come to town to make a movie and is convinc...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Blueprint for Murder

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Blueprint for Murder (1948) by Roger Bax* is a rare thing for me--an inverted mystery. I generally find it very difficult to enjoy a myster...
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Sunday, October 6, 2019

Let's Kill George

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Let's Kill George (1946) by Lucy Cores George Banat was a film script writer trying to make himself into a playwright. He also liked ...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Mystery of the Emerald Buddha

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Mystery of the Emerald Buddha (1974) by Betty Cavanna is the second of her novels that I have read and it is the second to feature smuggling...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Killing the Goose

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Killing the Goose (1944) is the seventh Mr. & Mrs. North mystery by Frances & Richard  Lockridge. I have three editions of this boo...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Cream of Crime

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The Cream of Crime: More Tales from Boucher's Choicest (1969) edited by Jeanne. F. Bernkopf gives us what purports to be some of the be...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Death on a Warm Wind

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Death on a Warm Wind (1968) by Douglas Warner was, in some ways, a disappointment. It was found in the middle of the "Mystery" sec...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Murder in a Nunnery

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Murder in a Nunnery (1940) by Eric Shepherd takes place at the Harrington Convent School. The Baroness Sliema is found murdered on the step...
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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Sunday, December 16, 2018

The Mystery of the Fiery Eye: Mini-Review

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Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Fiery Eye (1967) by Robert Arthur In this outing Alfred Hitchcock ...
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Crimson Circle (Review)

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The Crimson Circle (1922) by Edgar Wallace The Crimson Circle is a secret criminal society run along the lines of the Black Hand and othe...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Table D'Hote: Spoilery Review

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I am rapidly coming to the end of the Masters & Green mystery series by Douglas Clark. I have just two more left to read on my TBR shelv...
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Devious Murder: Review

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Devious Murder (1973) by George Bellairs is the 53rd novel in the Chief Inspector Littlejohn series and the first one I've ever found i...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Family Tree Reading Challenge: My Sign-Up

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Becky at Becky's Book Reviews is hosting another round of the Family Tree Reading Challenge. She has given us several options this y...
Monday, September 3, 2018

The Blind Spot: Review

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The Blind Spot (1952; original title: Inspector West at Bay ; apa T he Case of the Acid Throwers ) by John Creasey It's not often tha...
Friday, August 24, 2018

The Tale of Brownie Beaver: Mini-Review

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The Tale of Brownie Beaver (1916) is one of a series of classic animal stories by Arthur Scott Bailey. Bailey uses humorous tales of very p...