Thursday, September 16, 2021

Midsommar Murder--and Midwinter too! The Menace on the Downs (1931), by Miles Burton

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The Menace on the Downs is a frustrating book to me, because one feels that it should be better than it is.  While there are some good part...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Mara and the Dame: The Mid-Seventies Agatha Christie paperback cover art by Mara McAfee

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Mara McAfee cover art for Agatha Christie's Hickory Dickory Death , aka Hickory Dickory Dock one of the covers she did for Pocket paperb...
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Saturday, September 11, 2021

"Strange things seem to happen in these country places": A Village Afraid (1950), by Miles Burton

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In their mammoth, epochal encyclopedia, A Catalogue of Crime (1971), authors Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) and Wendell Hertig Taylor (1905-1...
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Thursday, September 9, 2021

A Score of Fine Street Fare: The Best of John Rhode and Miles Burton

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Now that I've rated all the John Street detective novels, I suppose the time has come to list my Top Twenty.  So without further ado, he...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

The Great Decade: Rating the Early John Rhodes and Miles Burtons, 1925-1934

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Some of you may have wondered at the recent flurry in the Street at this blog, as it were, but I'm happy to be able to announce that sev...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Jimmy Waghorn Comes on Board: Rating John Rhodes in the early Jimmy Waghorn Era, 1935-1940, plus more Miles Burtons

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The year 1935 saw a big change in John Street's "John Rhode" series of detective novels, with a younger, college-educated youn...

The Major Goes to War: Rating John Street's 18 wartime John Rhode and Miles Burton Mysteries, 1940-45

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 Continuing (backwards) my ratings of John Street's detective novels, I thought I would look at the wartime ones (books with actual wart...
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