Murder by Matchlight | 
pickThis was really good! Given that it was published the year WW2 ended, the details about the Blitz feel that much more immediate. And the British Library Crime Classics edition has a gorgeous cover.
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pickThis was really good! Given that it was published the year WW2 ended, the details about the Blitz feel that much more immediate. And the British Library Crime Classics edition has a gorgeous cover.
Found a bunch of British Library Crime Classics on my library‘s Overdrive! Requested here: The Colour of Murder, Murder by Matchlight, Death in Captivity, Surfeit of Suspects, Murder in the Mill-Race, and The Body in the Dumb River. I already have hold requests for two of them in print format, but I probably won‘t see those for a while 😬
pickRather atmospheric due to its setting in the Blitz; entertaining in the way most of these reissues are, without being wildly exciting. Some fun little character studies!
Were I still in English lit academia, I'd want to study the appeal of these Golden Age British crime novels in this particular political landscape...
