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Showing posts with label Scrabble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrabble. Show all posts
Friday, January 2, 2015

Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home: Review

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Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973) was James Tiptree, Jr's (Alice Sheldon) first published book. As a first short story collecti...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Sick to Death: Review

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Sick to Death (1971) is the fifth book in Douglas Clark's Masters and Green series of police procedurals. It takes me back to the earli...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Words for Murder Perhaps: Review

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I had been looking for Edward Candy's (Barbara Alison Boodson Neville, 1925-1993) Words for Murder Perhaps (1971) in used bookshops for...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Oxford Knot: Review

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Kate Ivory is an author of historical fiction who is used to receiving letters from her readers--usually telling her all the mistakes she...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Two Men in Twenty: Reveiw

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Chief Inspector Henry Martineau of the Grantchester police isn't too interested when Scotland Yard asks his assistance in tracking down ...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Trick or Treat Murder: Review

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It's Halloween in Tinker's Cove and the jack-o-lanterns aren't the only things alight in this small historical town in Maine. Wh...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

American Eve: Review

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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White The Birth of the 'It' Girl, and the 'Crime of the Century' by Paula Uruburu (200...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Too Many Doctors: Review

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Trehane operated on a basis of thoroughness: do everthing, do it properly, follow up, check. If he had ever had a moment of intuition, he ha...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Appleby's Answer: Review

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Rather a tiresome man. But it does seem extravagant to propose to murder him. (p. 84) But it begins to look like that may be what is in st...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Only a Matter of Time: Mini-Review

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Dr. R. V. Davie, professor of poetry and sometime amateur detective, has come to Kings Lacey for its annual festival featuring a bit of oper...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

The Footprints on the Ceiling: Review

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It's not enough that Clayton Rawson's Great Merlini has to answer the question of how a woman with an acute case of agoraphobia coul...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Red Cent: Review

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Jack Hatch, Robert Campbell's railroad detective in Red Cent (1989), is detailed to meet the Burlington Northern at Osceola. Millionair...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Death in a White Tie: Review

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Death in a White Tie is a reread for me. I discovered Ngaio Marsh back at my hometown Carnegie Library (more moons ago than we need to coun...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

Vertigo 42: Review

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Superintendent Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson, a friend of a friend, at the Vertigo 42--a swanky bar on the 42nd floor of a building in L...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

The Attenbury Emeralds: Review

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Currently (at least on Facebook) there is a major debate raging over Sophie Hannah's forthcoming Hercule Poirot novel. A large number of...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Challenge Complete: Scrabble

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When you sign up for the Scrabble, Anyone? Challenge at GoodReads (click link), Barb (our gracious hostess) will assign you one set ...
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