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@Mitch is starting the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub in 2023. Starting in January, there‘ll be a book each month from one of the best golden age crime writers published, including Dame Agatha, Miss Sayers & many more. Original post is on his page, if interested let her know there. And let other Littens know if you think they‘d be interested too & repost away!

Would you be interested in buddy reading golden age Murder mysteries? Let @Mitch know if you want to join in with the group and discussion.

@Mitch is setting up a “Golden Age”
Mystery club beginning in January if there is enough interest. Plan is to read one book per month, discuss with a few prompts. I am so excited as I read more than one mystery per month & this is an era I would like to read more from. Please go to her account for more details. You do not have to commit to every month; join when you can.#goldenagecrimeclub

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I‘m recently rediscovered my love of crime fiction - and I‘m unearthing some golden age gems! Thinking of setting up a monthly Litsy bookclub. Super simple and low key - we read a book each month and then at the end of the month I post 3 or 4 prompts to get us talking about the book. Anyone interested?????
Let me know below if you‘d like to join in and if there‘s enough interest I‘ll get us started with our January book asap!

Reposting for @Mitch

#GoldenAgeCrimeClub

Check Mitch's original post to let her know you're in.

I‘m recently rediscovered my love of crime fiction - and I‘m unearthing some golden age gems! Thinking of setting up a monthly Litsy bookclub. Super simple and low key - we read a book each month and then at the end of the month I post 3 or 4 prompts to get us talking about the book. Anyone interested?????
Let me know below if you‘d like to join in and if there‘s enough interest I‘ll get us started with our January book asap!

Me: I need to stop doing book buying bans; I keep failing them.
Also me: I need to keep doing book buying bans; the universe keeps breaking them by dropping things like a signed copy of a wishlist book into discount shops.

A history of The Detection Club and the authors that founded and joined; most prominently Anthony Berkeley/Frances Ilses, Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. My TBR pile is now even more enormous.

A book about all my favourite authors - a fabulous recommendation from the Shedunnit Podcast.

#auguststats Just the top 4 for this month.

4 1/2 ⭐

It's an interesting book and has increased my TBR massively! However the introduction is a bit misleading as it suggests that the book will focus on the mysteries in the lives of Christie, Berkeley & Sayers, but it only does so in the concluding chapter.

Also read for 2 and 3/4 hours for #reversereadathon

"He gave his address as 25 Menlove Gardens East, Mossley Hill."

@TrishB it's about the William Wallace case!

Post it notes mark books that I want to read/get!

Also @JaneyWaneyB your #sits package arrived today! @Chrissyreadit

It's normally women who #crymeariver due to our lack of representation, however in the Golden Age of Murder (late Victorian - 1940s-ish), male writers are under-represented! #ayupaugust @Cinfhen @squirrelbrain

Book is good but adding to my TBR massively! (Photo to come)

#AugustTBR!

It has to be a Golden Age #mysterynovel for my taste. Three of the best with their ever-eccentric detectives (Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Margery Allingham with Lord Peter Wimsey, Hercule Poirot and Albert Campion) #readingwomenmonth @thereadingwomen

This book very nicely covers two of today‘s photo challenges: 🔪 for #EmojiMadness and #Mystery for #ReadingResolutions. 😄

I've taken advantage of the 2 for £7 deal on paperbacks from Amazon! I've read the McDermid one already on Kindle, but have decided that as I want to write crime stories it would be helpful to have a paperback version too. As I'm not sure my books are going to be entirely crime related (I'm thinking a fantasy element) I bought Match Up too to inspire me.

Bonus book is the tagged one as his The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books was very useful⬇️

So many new books on my mental wishlist, aaah! I found this a little bit scattered at times as it jumped between members of the Detection Club, the plots of their books and real life crimes that gave them inspiration, but it was fascinating nonetheless.

I've mostly been crocheting the last few days (one of the results pictured with #bunniesofLitsy star Breakfast), while listening to radio 4, but when I have been reading this has been riveting. So much I didn't know about Sayers! So many books I'm tempted to add to my TBR.

Didn't really do what I was hoping: I finished with neither a reading list of books to go look for, nor a massively increased understanding of the authors involved.

It's clearly very well researched, but there's a lot of people to try and keep track of and I think the author got too caught up in not giving away the plots of the various books that he ended up not telling us a lot at all.

#TBRtemptation post! This is a bit of a predecessor to "The Inklings" in that it looks at a pivotal group of authors whose enduring interactions aren't well-known by most people. The Detection Club had members including Agatha Christie & Dorothy Sayers, & it reinvented the detective story. Between the World Wars, they were young, original, & cutting-edge. They laid the groundwork for everything from CSI to Jack Reacher. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

I love Agatha Christie, and everytime I see her pic I giggle. She has that look, she knows her books are like a drug. She is a lady well aware of her particular skills, hahaha.