The Art of the Side Character
This week’s topic grew out of my most recent read, Margery Allingham’s The Late Pig. It’s a short book, my copy is just shy of 140 pages. I could’ve read it in one day, but I read it in two because I had other things to do. It’s a nice little addition to the Campion […]
Book Review: A Man Lay Dead
We have reached our fourth and final “Queen of Crime,” the New Zealander Ngaio (Ny-oh) Marsh. She stands out as the only one of the four whose first book was the first I read. She begins her Inspector Alleyn series with A Man Lay Dead. It’s a typical country manor murder. An interesting mixture of […]
Book Review: The Crime at Black Dudley
We have made it to our penultimate Queen, Margery Allingham. I had not heard of Allingham, at least not that I remember, until watching the TV adaptation of her Campion series. Obviously, I could not learn about a new Golden Age author without adding her to my booklist. I’m very glad I did. In fact, […]
Book Review: The Nine Tailors
This is the third post in my Queens of Crime series. Reading Dorothy Sayers was a bit of an adventure for me, so I hope this review will be an interesting read. The Nine Tailors is the first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery I read, although it is not the first in the series. I have […]
Book Review: The Hollow
I must begin my reviews of the Queens of Crime with the Queen herself, Agatha Christie. I’ve read and loved so many of her books, so I couldn’t decide how to go about doing a review for a while. Then I finished reading The Hollow and knew I had my problem solved. What stands out to […]
The Queens of Crime: Series Intro
I’ve loved mystery stories for as long as I can remember. Collecting Nancy Drew books was what started me on my old book addiction, as well as my interest in vintage things in general. Most of the half-finished stories I wrote as a kid had mystery plots. Anything involving detectives or spies was right up […]