( A Miss Silver mystery, missing pages, Binkie of IIIB by Evelyn Smith and Shadow on the Moon by Zoe Marriot )

Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn is a Regency romance with a dash of adventure, which its heroine always wanted. ( Read more... )

There were some mysteries: one featuring bored redheaded twins in Rhodesia in Monica Marsden’s A Matter of Clues. The first Rhodesian-set story I’ve read in a while, it's extremely silly. I then read Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth, a (late) Miss Silver mystery that features many familiar elements, but there is an attempt to reorder them ( Read more... )

Grey Mask: Patricia Wentworth, Coronet 1979

First published in 1929, this early Miss Silver mystery references Sherlock Holmes ( Read more... )

( Shirley Flight in the Rajah’s Daughter: Judith Dale )

I'm posting this so that I have a clean slate for the next book that I want to review. Here’s what I’ve been doing lately that might be of interest…

The Youngest Sister is typical Bessie Marchant, a girl’s coming of age in an exotic local with a smidge of romance and an attempt at Romance in the old-fashioned sense. Although her heroine criss- ( Read more... )