Saturday, November 20, 2021

Walk a Mile: Dead Man's Shoes aka Appleby Talking (1954) by Michael Innes

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From its 1936 publication of Seven Suspects --the American title of Michael Innes ' first detective novel Death at the President's L...
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Sunday, October 31, 2021

Ye Beastie Dyde It: More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James (1911)

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the 1955 Pan paperback edition I wasn't surprised to find that medievalist scholar and Cambridge provost Montague Rhodes James, who wrot...
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Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Monday Club Murder: "Sight Unseen" (1916/21), by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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The body lay in the room overhead.  But what of the spirit?  I shivered as I thought that it might even then be watching me with formless ey...
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Friday, October 29, 2021

Halloweekend at The Sign of the Passing Tramp, 2021

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Classic Arthur Hawkins  jacket to a classic creepy Thirties crime novel by Joseph Shearing , aka Marjorie Bowen , aka Margaret Campbell Long...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

And Now for a Stairy Story: Dumb Witness, by Agatha Christie (1937)--with a possible cameo by the author herself (and her little dog too)

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In a not insignificant portion of vintage mysteries, the primary murder victim dies from having been fatally impelled in some foul fashion d...
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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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