Wednesday is not posing on top of a pile of books (uncomfortable!)*
What I read
Finished A Study in Scarlet Women, and then romped through A Conspiracy in Belgravia (2017) and The Hollow of Fear (2018), as well as the associated short story, Charlotte Holmes and the Locked Box (2017). Very compelling reading, some anachronism of language and history of medicine research-fail, also I feel that as mysteries they would possibly not entirely pass the criteria of the Detection Club, with the flash-forward/flash-back thing, but they're very good reads, and I see that even though there was a sort of winding up of plot strands there are still threads dangling and we are promised further volumes (and we shall be interested to see if she gets Victorian divorce law right, if this does end up being part of the narrative, as this is something I have seen Got Wrong more than once).
Tremontaine Season 4 Episode 7.
Simon R Green, Death Shall Come (2017) - do not think I like these as much as some of his other series but will do to be getting along with.
Quite a number of short stories by EM Delafield which were in that massive ebook of Collected Works by: they are not at all in the Provincial Lady line and distinctly uncosy.
On the go
Phyllis Lassner, Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film (2018): I wanted to read this particularly because she includes women writers of spy thrillers or at least works which use espionage tropes: unfortunately it's just one chapter, though a very good one, and I'm not so sure how interested I am in the analysis of the other writers she deals with...
Up next
Presumably there will be a new Tremontaine episode sometime this week... Also I have the new MR Carey thriller on preorder promised for next week. Otherwise, possibly some more Delafield.
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