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4 days ago · She heaped praise on Night in Glengyle, saying in the Sunday Times that “your reviewer quite forgot to be cunning and was properly taken in by the surprise-packet at the end,” although, like her successor as crime critic for the Sunday Times Milward Kennedy, she was less convinced by Ferguson’s adherence to the tenets of “fair play ...
May 20, 2024 · Read 88 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. News tycoon Lord Comstock is greedy, ruthless, scandal-mongering, and dead by Archbishop, M…
1 day ago · The interview concluded with Martin’s personal highlights of the series (Julian Symons, Francis Iles and Michael Gilbert’s Smallbone Deceased) and his hopes for it in the future (such as getting to reprint Milward Kennedy). Session 3: Mark Aldridge: Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness
1 day ago · June 2, 2024 Puzzle Doctor. The Bodies From The Library Conference 2024. It’s been three years since I’ve been to London for the Bodies From The Library. Two years ago I was thwarted by a combination of hot weather and a worrying fragile rail network. Last year, my job got in the way – I have to work one Saturday in June which I can’t ...
May 19, 2024 · Knox’s fellow crime novelist, Milward Kennedy – a leading diplomat with the International Labour Organisation – explored how ordinary people might respond to the inadequacy of domestic ...
May 21, 2024 · Death in High Heels (1941) takes place in a posh dress shop, Christophe et Cie, where we find the small, tightly-drawn cast of characters comprising of a dozen women and two men. The two men are Frank Bevan, proprietor and manager, and his dress designer, Mr. Cecil. Miss Gregory and Miss Doon act as Bevan's right and left hand in running the ...
May 17, 2024 · The last time I compiled a list, "The Hit List: Top 5 Intriguing Pieces of Impossible Crime Fiction That Vanished into Thin Air," I concluded the list with the promise to pick a slightly less depressing, more upbeat topic for the next hit list – instead of continuing to dwell on the obscure and lost.
