Back at the start of 2020, I decided to give the British Crime Classics Challenge a go. My aim was small, to read one British Crime Classic each month, to give my library trips some sort of goal. Normally I just wander around until something takes my fancy. Of course, then 2020 happened and the… Continue reading British Crime Classics Challenge Round-Up
Tag: Golden Age detective
British Crime Classics Challenge Update: The Good and the Bad
Sometimes, you read a long-forgotten book and you wonder how it could ever be ignored. And then you read others and wonder why they were rescued. Here, I have an example of each. Guess which is which. The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by Dalton Moray Invited to visit an aunt she had only just… Continue reading British Crime Classics Challenge Update: The Good and the Bad
Death at Wentwater Court
After the disappointment of the last faux-Golden Age crime novel I tried, it's with actual delight that I'm sharing Carola Dunn's offering. Published in 1997, Death at Wentwater Court is the first in a series starring the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple as our aristocratic amateur detective. At the start of a new career as a journalist,… Continue reading Death at Wentwater Court
British Crime Classics Update
There is something very comforting about detective fiction. Better than the happy-ever-after of romance, it’s the (hopefully) neat tying-up of all loose ends and the “Oh! Of course!” or “Hah! Knew it!” of the answer. It’s the question asked at the start of the novel being answered. I like puzzles – I’ve whiled away several… Continue reading British Crime Classics Update
Death of an Airman
First published in 1934, Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg impressed no less an authority on crime fiction than the crime reviewer for the Sunday Times: Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of amateur detective Lord Peter Whimsey. When the Bishop of Cootamundra, Australia, goes to the Baston Aero Club, England, he expects to… Continue reading Death of an Airman
Books: Crime Classics Challenge Update
At the start of the year, I decided to take up the Crime Classics Reading Challenge, with the aim of reading at least one new Golden Age crime classic each month. Mostly, this is so I have something specific to look for when I wander through the library, but in my clearing out of the… Continue reading Books: Crime Classics Challenge Update
Reading Plans: The British Crime Classics Challenge
This year, I plan to give my visits to the library and my reading a little bit of purpose: I’m taking up the British Crime Classics Challenge. The rules for this challenge are simple. In fact, there’s just the one rule. To read British crime novels originally published before 1965. Now, of course, I could… Continue reading Reading Plans: The British Crime Classics Challenge
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