pickTaken by Col. Pride to be introduced to a neighbour, Appleby finds his would-be host has been murdered.
Classic country-house murder mystery right up to the final drawing-room scene with the assembled suspects when the murderer is revealed. The humour here arises from Appleby's (and the author's) use of language rather than from the characters. Enjoyable but not as laugh-out-loud funny as the previous two books I read.
pickJust finished this. Loved it. I'll read her other Sherlock Holmes novels, of which there are at least two more.
#litsylove #mysteries #SherlockHolmes
so-soNot a favourite collection from the British Library Crime Classics series. I couldn't quite put my finger on why, but I just didn't get enthused. Also one of the stories was a repeat, I'm pretty sure. (I've read it for sure; I don't remember where, but I only really read crime short stories in this series.)
pickI couldn‘t put this down. Maura owns a town pub called Sullivan‘s. In the middle of a blizzard several people are stuck @ the pub til the storm stops. One of them is the woman suspected in a murder years ago and she insists on her innocence. So the group decide to go over the details since they have nothing else to do for the night.
so-soJust okay. The mystery was fine, but the characters were all 2-dimensional tropes. So much so, that I actually wondered if it was intentional, kind of like a spoof of a bad movie.
This was my #ThematicCozies choice for the August prompt #Travel .
pick#Read2025 #SeriesLove2025
I never posted my review for this one, read last month for #EBBR & of course by now I have forgotten the cases & the ones I didn‘t solve. (I didn‘t solve! I think there were a couple.) 🤷🏻♀️
pickDid I listen to a kids book just to satisfy an #ispybingo square? Yes. Yes, I did! 🤣🤣🤣
#baldhead
It was really cute, though!
pickI didn't *adore* this one, but as I've observed before, with these short story collections from the British Library Crime Classics collections, they're often more than the sum of their parts. It makes for a fun survey of classic crime in the period, and there were a couple I liked quite a bit -- R. Austin Freeman's stories are always so detailed, for instance.
Aaand that was my #BookSpin!
This is the #BookSpin, so I settled down to read it today! It's taking me a bit longer than I'd expected, quite a few of the short stories are quite long.
Half the time I am absolutely not using my new chair (a recliner) in the way it was designed, but it's cosy. Illustration: a photo I took earlier to show a friend my silliness.
August BOTM picks are live!
What are we thinking?!
I‘ve skipped the last 2 or 3 months and I think this month may be a skip as well!
