What I've Finished Reading

The House by the River totally fulfilled all its promises and delivered a suspenseful but ultimately pretty harmless good time. Alison and the undercover detective dig up the Darke patriarch's secret racket, the earl and his daughter realize that they are only being courted as extra protection against scandal if the big ( Read more... )

For me, as for many others, the reading of detective stories is an addiction like tobacco or alcohol. The symptoms of this are: Firstly, the intensity of the craving - if I have any work to do, I must be careful not to get hold of a detective story for, once I begin one, I cannot work or sleep till I have finished it. Secondly, its specificity - ( Read more... )

What I've Finished Reading

The Scoop and Behind the Screen, two collaborative mysteries by Assorted Members of the Detection Club - both lightweight and pretty delightful, free of the racist and antisemitic set dressing that marred The Floating Admiral. Hugh Walpole's opening chapter for Behind the Screen is a little masterpiece. These were ( Read more... )