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The Layton Court Mystery (1925) by Anthony Berkeley
Today’s review is a re-read for me, having first read it a couple of years ago. This was Berkeley’s first novel and I feel the dedication he includes to his father at the beginning is quite interesting in the aims … Continue reading
Serpents in Eden (2016) ed. By Martin Edwards
This book has spent quite a while on my TBR pile, since I bought it from Barter Book last year, but at long last it made it to the top and I’m rather glad it did. Like Auden I find … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Berkeley, Arthur Conan Doyle, British Library Crime Classic Reprints, Countryside Mysteries, E. C. Bentley, Ethel Lina White, G. K. Chesterton, Gladys Mitchell, H. C. Bailey, Herbert Jenkins, Lenora Wodehouse, Leo Bruce, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Margery Allingham, Martin Edwards, R. Austin Freeman, Serpents in Eden
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Book of the Month: June 2017
I clocked in 17 reads this month, making my TBR pile looked a little more seemly and I have now reached 81 books in my book chain, as part of Bev’s (at My Reader’s Block) Follow the Clues Challenge. You … Continue reading
Jumping Jenny (1933) by Anthony Berkeley
Regular readers of this blog and of my more recent Berkeley reviews will know that I’m far from being the world’s biggest fan of Roger Sheringham. His irritating personality and attitudes are deliberate but that doesn’t make them anymore tolerable. … Continue reading
The Piccadilly Murder (1929) by Anthony Berkeley
Today’s read is a speedy return to the work of Anthony Berkeley, as last week I reviewed another of his works, Mr Priestley’s Problems (1927). The Piccadilly Murder (1929) features Berkeley’s spasmodic and unusual serial character, Ambrose Chitterwick, who first … Continue reading
Pranks and Comedy Galore in Anthony Berkeley’s Mr Priestley’s Problem (1927)
This is the next review in my recent spate of blogging on Anthony Berkeley’s work. Whilst A Puzzle in Poison (1938) by Berkeley’s standards was quite a conventional story, we are back to the unconventional with this today’s read, which … Continue reading
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Tagged A. B. Cox, Anthony Berkeley, Comic Crime Novel, Mr Priestley's Problem, The Amateur Crime
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A Puzzle in Poison (1938) by Anthony Berkeley
This is my first new to me Berkeley novel in quite a while. I love his work as Francis Iles; Malice Aforethought (1931) and Before the Fact (1932), but I have had a more mixed experience with his Berkeley novels, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Puzzle in Poison, Anthony Berkeley, Golden Age Detective Fiction, Not To Be Taken
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Book of the Month: October 2016
Last month had a lot of good reads but I think there was one which definitely stole the show and it should come as no surprise that October’s book of the month was Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders (2016). It has … Continue reading
The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) by Anthony Berkeley
Source: Review Copy (British Library) This year I have reread quite a few mysteries, but today’s reread is one with a difference, well two differences really, that of including two additional chapters – one written in 1979 by Christianna Brand … Continue reading
A Poor Outing in Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941)
Having read Francis’ Iles brilliant book, Before the Fact (1932), I was interested to see how Hitchcock adapted it and conveniently it was released in this month’s chosen year for Past Offences Monthly Challenge, 1941. ‘Some women give birth to … Continue reading
