Here are short notes on a few Silver Mysteries read this year: The Killing of Katie Steelstock by Michael Gilbert (1980) When I first started reading mysteries, I enjoyed the amateur detective besting the police-officer (Fatty vs Mr. Goon) but over the years, it is the police procedural that has become my favourite genre in … Continue reading Four Silver Mysteries
Tag: Lionel White
Reprint of the Year 2024: A Grave Undertaking by Lionel White (1961)
It is time for my second nomination for the Reprint of the Year Award hosted by Kate Jackson @CrossexaminingCrime. You can read more about the award and how you can get involved, over here. My first nomination can be found here. They liked a happy undertaker the same way that the Irishman likes a bottle … Continue reading Reprint of the Year 2024: A Grave Undertaking by Lionel White (1961)
The Best Laid Plans: Two Books and a Movie
It began on a summer afternoon in July, a month of intense heat, rainless skies and scorching, dust-laden winds.His eyes fell on the headline and unconsciously it registered on his brain.RACE TRACK BANDITMAKES CLEAN BREAKWITH TWO MILLION.Quite suddenly, a desire to read pulp fiction gripped me…hard. Since taking the metro to Hardayal library, which has … Continue reading The Best Laid Plans: Two Books and a Movie
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