Our last book is an early Gervase Fen novel by Edmund Crispin. I'm pretty sure that the creators of The Avengers were inspired by the title for one episode...

The back cover:
It is late at night when poet Cadogan stumbles on the dead body of an old lady in an Oxford toyshop ( Read more... )

Continuing our classic mystery series, this is Dorothy Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey novel.

Here's the blurb:

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to ( Read more... )

So, in keeping with our theme of early works in series (ok, the Elizabeth Peters was just an early work!), this time we have the first Agatha Christie mystery. Here's the back cover of an edition from the 1990s...:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) is Agatha Christie's first novel, and introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief ( Read more... )

Don't use this poll!! I am re-posting because the text box is too short!

Ok, not the overlap I planned ... all of a sudden life happened this week.

But here's the next book, while I get ready to put up lines from the last...

The back cover:

The world of Patricia Highsmith has alwasy been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of ( Read more... )

This round's book is the latest by Bernard Cornwell, Agincourt. Yeah, it's a book about a battle ( Read more... )

Ok, the next book is newish fantasy, Kari Sperring's Living With Ghosts -- I bought it yesterday and haven't even started it!

Here's the blurb:

Gracielis, the failed assassin priest turned courtesan and spy, wants to deny his strange abilitiies, yet he cannot ignore the ghostly presence that shadows him or the sorceress who rules him. Thiercelin ( Read more... )