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Showing posts with label Off the Shelf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Off the Shelf. Show all posts
Sunday, December 1, 2013

The Birds' Christmas Carol: Review

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The Birds' Christmas Carol (1886) is a very sweet short novel written by Kate Douglas Wiggin and illustrated by Katharine R. Wireman. I...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Around the World in Eighty Days: Review

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Around the World in Eighty Day s is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne.  I had seen two filmed versions of the story--the 1956 version...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Challenge Complete: Off the Shelf

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I have now completed the Off The Shelf Challenge for 2013. I signed up for the Hoarder Level and declared that I would do 100 books...
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The Patient in Room 18: Review

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The Patient in Room 18 is the debut novel for Mignon G. Eberhart.  It is also the book that introduces Nurse Sarah Keate (who would appear ...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Dorothy Parker Murder Case: Review

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The Dorothy Parker Murder Case is the first of thirteen fictional celebrity mysteries written by George Baxt.  Later novels feature such lu...
Friday, November 15, 2013

The Small Hours of the Morning: Review

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Lorna Gibson is a very lonely, very repressed woman.  She longs for contact with someone special, but she doesn't have the personal skil...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Check-Out Time: Review

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Check-Out Time is the fifth book in Kate Kingsbury's other mystery series featuring the Cecily Sinclair and the Pennyfoot Hotel.  It is...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Evidence of Things Seen: Review

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Evidence of Things Seen is the fifth in the Henry Gamadge mystery series by Elizabeth Daly.  It is set in 1942 and Henry is off doing unspe...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Death Is in the Air: Review

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Death Is in the Air is a cozy little English village mystery by Kate Kingsbury.  It is set during World War II in the village of Sitting Ma...
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Friday, November 8, 2013

The Murder Stone: Review

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It is 1916 and World War I is raging--a long, terrible campaign which decimated a generation of young men, often wiping out all the sons of...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Kemp's Last Case: Review

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Kemp's Last Case really is the last mystery featuring solicitor Lennox Kemp in the series by M. R. D. Meek.  Margaret Reid Duncan Meek ...

Shell Game: Review

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A shell-gathering vacation in Florida nearly lands Bill Stuart in the local jail...and before he's done, he may wind up in the morgue in...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Maid to Murder: Review

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Maid to Murder by Roy Vickers (1950) "It would be grand to help you find poor old Velfrage. Pretty obvious that something has happen...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

By a Woman's Hand: Mini-Review

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By a Woman's Hand is a mystery reference book by Jean Swanson and Dean James. Published in 1994, it contains over 200 short, succinct pr...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Mystery & Crime: NYPL Book of Answers (mini-review)

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This is a decent little mystery reference book with some interesting information. However, I a...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Through a Glass Darkly: Helen McCloy

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Through a Glass, Darkly by Helen Mccloy opens with Faustina Crayle being dismissed from her post as an art instructor at an elite girls...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Once Upon a Crime: Review

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Campus Cop, Peggy O'Neill, is back to crime-busting in M. D. Lake's Once Upon a Crime .  The fact that Peggy is represented as littl...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Gently Go Man: Review

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Gently Go Man by Alan Hunter is like way out there, man.  Like the mostest in the way of late 50s/very early 60s talk.  Like maybe too much...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

The Water Room: Review

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The Water Room by Christopher Fowler is the second book in his Peculiar Crimes Unit series.  It stars John May and Arthur Bryant, the octog...
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