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P. D. James dishes on detective fiction

Brian Bethune wrote 2 weeks ago: Mention of iconic British mystery writers tends to bring to mind the names of long-dead women—Agatha … more →

Tags: Books, Agatha Christie, Connor White, Dorothy Sayers, feminist revolution, Ian Rankin, Mystery Writers, Ngaio Marsh, Phyllis Dorothy James

The Secret Stash15 comments

savidgereads wrote 2 months ago: Now this blog post has been hidden away because I am ashamed of the amount of books that had been bo … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, alexander mccall smith, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, jessica mitford, Patricia Cornwell, Rose Tremain, Anita Brookner, Christos Tsiolkas

Quotes On Love 29.

Chitraparna wrote 3 months ago: When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impr … more →

Tags: Quotes on Love, Love Quotes, Love

The Margery Allingham question

phillipkay wrote 5 months ago: Margery Allingham (1904-68) wrote stories about crime, which fact places her reputation somewhere in … more →

Tags: Books, albert campion

The Latest Books To The Never Ending TBR Pile Are...10 comments

savidgereads wrote 7 months ago: That sounds like a bit of an Oscar Nominations announcement doesn’t it? However I really like seeing … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, ellen feldman, Karen Campbell, Geraldine Brooks, linda grant, Chris Cleave, Michael Arlen, Rosy Thornton, Emily Listfield

Writing with Joan Grant

Tracy Grant wrote 7 months ago: As you may know, I began my writing career collaborating with my mother, Joan Grant. We wrote eight … more →

Tags: Scarlet Pimpernel, Jane Austen, Tracy Grant, Dorothy Sayers, Georgette Heyer, Beneath a Silent Moon, Mélanie and Charles Fraser, Dorothy Dunnett, Sherlock Holmes

"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own." ~ Antonio Porchia4 comments

poietes wrote 9 months ago: Hammarby Angel, Sweden “Mourning is not forgetting . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie ha … more →

Tags: Our Writing Selves, Life or Something Similar, Writing Blogs, Friends and Family, The BIG things!, Just keep Breathing, I Just Hurt All Over, William Shakespeare, Fate

The Privileged Class Enjoying Its Privileges15 comments

Tracy Grant wrote 9 months ago: I claim to believe in liberty, equality, and fraternity. And I live here. Mélanie says these words t … more →

Tags: Jane Austen, Tracy Grant, Dorothy Sayers, Secrets of a Lady, Georgette Heyer, Mélanie and Charles Fraser, History Hoydens, Emma, Anthea Malcolm

Review: Dancers in Mourning (1937) - Margery Allingham1 comment

cshmurak wrote 1 year ago: Dancers in Mourning is a fine mystery with some classic Golden Age touches: a country house setting, … more →

Tags: Classic Mystery Reviews, Golden Age Mysteries

A brief Allingham biography

bardsworld wrote 1 year ago: Margery Allingham 1904 – 1966 Margery Allingham’s contribution to the world of fiction b … more →

Tags: Biographical

At Brown's Hotel

bookwitch wrote 1 year ago: The young witch used to frequent Brown’s, much to the surprise of her elders and betters. It w … more →

Tags: Books, Philip Pullman, Authors, Television, Crime, writing, Ngaio Marsh, Midsomer Murders, budge wilson

Veddy British, Ms. Allingham

Ned Raggett wrote 1 year ago: So as muttered some posts ago, I’d recently checked out two books by Margery Allingham featuri … more →

Tags: Books, British Mysteries, albert campion, the beckoning lady, more work for the undertaker, mystery novels

The Tiger in the Smoke

a1reader wrote 1 year ago: Ok, lets pick a book I read last month, to start us off – “The Tiger in the Smoke” … more →

Tags: 1, The Tiger in the Smoke, Crime, campion, Evil, London

'"Tchah!" said I.'1 comment

Ned Raggett wrote 1 year ago: Recently the library got in some reprints of the work of Margery Allingham, a British mystery writer … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, bill pronzini, campion, gun in cheek, British Mysteries, Bad writing, Humor

Cosy crime

bookwitch wrote 2 years ago: Just as I was saying earlier about liking cosy Christmas books, I like my crime cosy. This is possib … more →

Tags: Books, Authors, Television, film, Adele Geras, Crime, Stieg Larsson, Miss Marple, Ngaio Marsh


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