In an effort to be ready for the March edition of A Year with Christie 2020 (having completely missed the February version), I checked out The ABC Murders from the library early. Since this is my second time reading the mystery, I sort of knew what was going on and so, instead of guessing what… Read More Re-Reading Christie: Is ‘The ABC Murders’ Self-Aware?
I heard great things about The Nine Tailors from The Golden Age of Murder so I had to borrow it. While I enjoyed the book, it felt very familiar, as though I had read it before. So I went to Goodreads and… I’ve read this seven years ago! This is shaping up to be the… Read More Book Review: The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Golden Age of Murder convinced me that I need to read more Golden Age mystery authors that are not Agatha Christie, so I decided to look for some Josephine Tey (also, my library doesn’t have Anthony Berkeley so I will have to find his books in a bookstore which will take some time). I’ve… Read More Book Review: A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
One thing that I’ve discovered (and am really enjoying) about bookstagram are the challenges! There was the Wodehouse one which I missed, the 2019 Agatha Christie one which I also missed, and this 2020 Agatha Christie one which I am determined to participate in as much as possible! It’s a book a month, which I… Read More Book Review: Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
I could talk about how libraries work as an avenue for serendipitous discovery of books but I won’t because this review is going to be a paean to the golden age of mysteries. Or at least, it would be if I could write paeans. The Golden Age of Murder, on the other hand, is a… Read More The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
Death on the Nile is a Hercule Poirot story and one that I have reread often. Spoilers galore in this post because I’m going to be focusing on the characters so skip this if you haven’t read the book! Although the mystery takes place on the Nile, it starts in England when the beautiful, rich,… Read More Re-Reading Christie: Female Characters in Death on the Nile
Since I have been starting to enjoy Miss Marple, I decided to get another one of her books. This time, intrigued by the blurb where Miss Marple receives a request from an acquaintance to “investigate a crime after his death”, I borrowed Nemesis. After Amos Rafiel dies, Miss Marple receives a notification of an inheritance… Read More Nemesis by Agatha Christie
Since I had a pretty good experience with Lord Peter Wimsey with Whose Body?, better than my first Lord Wimsey book, I decided to borrow another Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is the fourth book in the series where a question of inheritance soon turns into a question of murder.… Read More The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
I think I’m warming up to Lord Peter Wimsey. According to Goodreads, I gave three stars to the first Lord Peter Wimsey book I read, four stars to the next, and I think this is either a four or five star read (it’d be 4.5 if Goodreads let me give half stars, but they don’t… Read More Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers