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Tag Archives: murder
REVIEW: Wild Justice – Kelley Armstrong
(Sphere e-book 2013) Francis Bacon wrote: “Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Tiger in the Smoke – Margery Allingham
(Penguin 1975, originally published 1952) Meg Elginbrodde, recently engaged to Geoffrey Levett, has been a war widow for five years after her husband Martin was killed in France. Recently, however, photographs have been turning up, both in illustrated papers and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews, Thriller
Tagged Albert Campion, atmosphere, crime, fog, london, Margery Allingham, murder, not a Campion novel, practical jokes, treasure
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REVIEW: Death in Kenya – M. M. Kaye
Originally published as ‘Later Than You Think’ (1958) I was doing that usual thing on Wikipedia of jumping from one article to another (I think it went from Little Women to White Mischief via Gabriel Byrne and Wah Wah) when … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews
Tagged African independence, colonialism, insanity, Kenya, M M Kaye, Mau Mau uprising, murder, racism, romance, White Mischief
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REVIEW: Original Sin – P. D. James
This is the tenth of P. D. James’ crime novels featuring her Metropolitan Police detective Adam Dalgliesh. Dalgliesh is a direct fictional descendent of Ngaio Marsh’s Roderick Alleyn, though James’ novels are much more modern and less concerned with the … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Chill – Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer is hired by a young man, Alex Kincaid, to find his wife Dolly, who has suddenly disappeared. They had not known each other long, and Alex has not been able to persuade the sheriff’s department to take her … Continue reading
REVIEW: Die for Love – Elizabeth Peters
Jacqueline Kirby, assistant head librarian at Coldwater College, is fed up with life in Nebraska, and heads to New York for a bit of a change, to revisit old haunts, and to attend a convention of historical romance writers organised … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Crime fiction, Humour, Reviews
Tagged books set in New York, Elizabeth Peters, historical romance, Jacqueline Kirby, murder, revenge, romance writers, satire, secrets
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REVIEW: Whom the Gods Love – Kate Ross
(Hodder and Stoughton 1996) Julian Kestrel – Regency dandy, man-about-town and sometime sleuth – begins his third adventure in a churchyard in Hampstead, where Sir Malcolm Faulkland, eminent barrister, has asked for a meeting. Sir Malcolm wants Kestrel to investigate … Continue reading