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Classic Crime: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1934)
Frank Chambers is a vagrant who rolls into a Californian town, specifically at Twin Oaks Tavern, run by Nick Papadakis and his wife, Cora. Nick offers him the job of a handyman which Frank takes up because he has fallen hard for Cora. As the intimacy between Frank and Cora increases, they plan to murder…
#1961Club #ClassicsClub: Crime Reads
1961 is the year chosen by Kaggsy @ Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Simon @ Stuck in a Book for their first Reading Club of 2026. Here are short notes on some of the crime reads of the year. The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith RAF veteran, Rex, now a moderately successful writer…
#ClassicsClub: The Beautiful Miss Burroughes by Anne Meredith (1945)
Anthony Gilbert aka Lucy Beatrice Malleson is one of my favourite authors. Besides, Anthony Gilbert, Malleson also wrote under a couple of other pseudonymns. One of them was Anne Meredith, under which she wrote both mainstream and mystery novels. The novel, The Beautiful miss Burroughes can be classified as a mainstream novel with a mystery…
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