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REVIEW: Wild Justice – Kelley Armstrong

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Ela

(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 →

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REVIEW: The Tiger in the Smoke – Margery Allingham

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Ela

(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 →

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REVIEW: Deep Secret – Diana Wynne Jones

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Ela

(published by Victor Gollancz, 1997) Rupert Venables is the youngest of Earth’s Magids when he’s faced with two problems: his sponsor, Stan, dies, and thus Rupert has to find a replacement; and secondly, events in the Koryfonic Empire – not … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Death in Kenya – M. M. Kaye

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Ela

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 →

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REVIEW: Original Sin – P. D. James

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Ela

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 →

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REVIEW: The Chill – Ross Macdonald

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Ela

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 →

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REVIEW: Die for Love – Elizabeth Peters

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Ela

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 →

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REVIEW: Whom the Gods Love – Kate Ross

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Ela

(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 →

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REVIEW: Thus Was Adonis Murdered – Sarah Caudwell

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Ela

(Constable & Robinson 2002, originally published 1981) This, like Delusions of Gender, was the result of a review by another book blogger, this time a more recent one from Jenny. The review immediately made me search out Caudwell’s books (sadly … Continue reading →

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The Father Brown stories – G. K. Chesterton

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Ela

The first Father Brown story, The Blue Cross, was published in 1910, and many other stories followed, being collected into five volumes: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), … Continue reading →

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