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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Terror on the Titanic: Mini-Review

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Terror on the Titanic by Jim Wallace was a second Choose Your Own Adventure book to catch my eye when I was looking to find a title to read...

Tower of London: A Chilling Interactive Adventure

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The PopSugar Reading Challenge has included a "Choose Your Own Adventure" prompt this year. When I saw that the library had a seri...
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Friday, January 25, 2019

The Secret Adversary: Review

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The Secret Adversary (1922) is Agatha Christie's second venture into the mystery field and the first to feature that daring young duo, ...
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The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes

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The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes (1990) by June Thomson is another collection of Holmes stories purporting to be from that battered tin ...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Hitler's First Victims: Review

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In Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice , Timothy Ryback recounts the background and events of one of the many "What If...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Charity Reading Challenge 2019

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Charity Reading Challenge Host:  Becky's Book Reviews  ( sign up here ) Duration: January-December 2019 # of books: You decide:  I...

Tales of Terror & Mystery: Review

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Tales of Terror and Mystery (1922; 1977) contains stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that were first published separately during a period fr...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Review

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie is the first novel to feature Hercule Poirot. And, although Hastings has met the great d...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Haunted Man & The Haunted House: Review

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The Haunted House is a strange little tale. John, our narrator, is told that he needs to take a house in the country to help his health imp...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

A Whiff of Cyanide: Review

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A Whiff of Cyanide (2017) by Guy Fraser-Sampson is the third in his Hampstead Murders series which makes great use of Golden Age detection-...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

The Murder of a Quack

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The Murder of a Quack (1943) by George Bellairs once again finds Scotland Yard's Inspector Littlejohn investigating murder in a small E...
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Sunday, January 13, 2019

The Dead Shall Be Raised: Review

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In The Dead Shall Be Raised  (1942) by George Bellairs, Inspector Thomas Littlejohn and his wife are set to spend a quiet Christmas holiday ...
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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Clouds of Witness: Review

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Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily e...
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An African Millionaire

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An African Millionaire (1897) by Grant Allen is one of the first books to feature a "gentleman crook." Colonel Cuthbert Clay (his...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Died in the Wool: Review

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Died in the Wool (1945) by Ngaio Marsh finds Inspector Alleyn still in New Zealand hunting spies in World War II. Alleyn had already been h...
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