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Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Layton Court Mystery – Anthony Berkeley
(The Langtail Press e-book 2010, originally published in 1925) Like my introduction to Cyril Hare, I originally came across the work of Anthony Berkeley in an anthology, and later in a joint novel produced by members of the Detection Club, … Continue reading
Meet Me At The Morgue – Ross Macdonald
(Vintage e-book 2010, originally published in 1953) This is one of Macdonald’s earlier novels, and doesn’t feature Lew Archer, his main protagonist and narrator, but with very little alteration, Meet Me At The Morgue could be an Archer novel. The … Continue reading
Aurelio Zen – from book to screen
For some reason I never read the first three of Michael Dibdin’s detective novels set in Italy (Ratking, Vendetta and Cabal) until I watched the first episodes of the BBC’s new series featuring the Venetian cop and starring Rufus Sewell … Continue reading
The Sign of the Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
(MobileReference e-book, originally published in 1890) The Literary Omnivore reviewed this short novel by Conan Doyle recently, reminding me that I had never read it before – I seem to have managed almost all the short stories, but the longer … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Crime fiction, Fiction, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged 1890s novels, boat chase, cocaine use, disguise, Indian Mutiny, murder, Sherlock Holmes, stereotypes, treasure
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Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
(Flamingo 1995) This book was regarded as ‘About as zeitgeisty as it gets’ in a review on the front cover: upon reading it in 2010, the reader can see that it has lost its immediate cultural significance, but its general … Continue reading
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Fiction, Humour, Reviews
Tagged 1990s fiction, California, Douglas Coupland, geeks, growing up, indestructible lucite ship-it awards, life changes, love, Microsoft, technology
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The Problem of the Green Capsule – John Dickson Carr
(Langtail Press e-book 2010, US title; originally published in the UK as ‘The Black Spectacles’ in 1939) John Dickson Carr wrote detective fiction both under this name and as ‘Carter Dickson’. He was American, but spent much of his life … Continue reading
Untimely Death – Cyril Hare
(Faber 2008, originally published in the UK as ‘He Should Have Died Hereafter’ in 1957) Cyril Hare was the pseudonym of a distinguished lawyer, Alfred A. G. Clark, barrister and later judge, who used his knowledge of the law to … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, Crime fiction, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged accidental death, Cyril Hare, Exmoor, legal matters, murder, quarrelsome families, stag-hunting
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