SHARP PRIVATE EYE thriller follows a detective and his childhood best friend, now an investigative reporter, to Mexico on the trail of a seasoned criminal. Lots of relatable characters and some great descriptions. SOLID B
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 089 - The Story of Konnor Old House by E & H Heron
Occult detective, Mr Flaxman Low is called in to investigate a house where a glowing phantom lurks, and madness and death waits for anyone staying there...
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“Gordon Daviot” was courted by Hollywood; “Josephine Tey” was ‘the crime writer’s crimewriter’; & “F. Craigie Howe” might have become a household name too if Elizabeth MacKintosh—the Inverness writer behind all three pseudonyms—had survived beyond her 57th year
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“Questions of identity permeate her novels. […] Masks and the identities they hide run through her work like the unifying thread in a tapestry.”
Val McDermid on how Josephine Tey opened up the crime novel for contemporary writers
Val McDermid discusses Josephine Tey’s MISS PYM DISPOSES with Andy Miller and John Mitchinson in a collaboration between the Backlisted Podcast & Aberdeen’s 2021 Granite Noir festival
Holmes wouldn't know have had a clue to happen to that nag, if the dog had barked. And don't get me going on that Baskerville Hound - animal abuse plain and simple, but does anybody care!?