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** GIRL ON THE RUN, by Eve Hunt. This odd novel begins as a gothic (an evil husband tries to kill his charming wife) turns into a thriller (the charming wife...
Dear Xavier, Postern of Fate was the last book Christie wrote (not the same as Christie's last book), and a decline is notable even between this and Elephants...
**** A HAMMER IN HIS HAND, by Whit Masterson Cop woman Evelyn Duncan and her husband are savagely murdered at their home. Prime suspect is a misfit who attacks...
Xavier, I think Blake's three best books are "The Private Wound", "Head of a Traveller" and "The Beast Must Die". Get hold of any of these--better still, grab...
Does anybody have comments about the following books: - "Dead Water" and "Tied Up in Tinsel" by Ngaio Marsh - "Murder by Latitude" by Rufus King - "Death and...
There`s Troble Brewing was also my first Nicholas Blake novel and I was not too impressed. A couple weeks ago I read The Smiler With The Knife and that was...
I just finished readin Murder By Latitude last night. It is moody, atmospheric and melodramatic. My first foray into Kings writing and it was a different and...
A JDC ten list. 10.To Wake The Dead, 9.Three Coffins, 8.Waxworks Murder, 7.The Blind Barber, 6.The Gilded Man, 5.Nine and Death Make Ten, 4.The Unicorn...
Dear Xavier, The best Nicholas Blakes: Head of a Traveller (excellent) There's Trouble Brewing The Case of the Abominable Snowman Thou Shell of Death A...
... Dead Water - not one of Marsh's best, I think. Tied up in Tinsel - one of the best of Marsh's later books, together with Photo-Finish. ... Well, _I_ liked...
Microsoft have decided to promote their .LIT format by providing a directory of ebooks in that format. This includes the largest collection of detective...
Do you need special software to read .LIT files? (If it's Microsoft, you probably do, so is there a place to download that from? If I can open it in Wordpad,...
I have never been a Ngaio Marsh fan, although some of her books are OK. But for some reason, I really liked her last (?) mystery, "Light Thickens". Don't know...
People here keep telling me how good this show is, so I watched it for a third time. Well, it is still a stupid network TV show, with no presentation for...
Didn't like this at all when it came out -- it wasn't a detective story. Thirty years later on rereading it I find it a masterpiece of gothic fiction. And of...
"Light Thickens" is one the numerous books waiting on my crowded shelves for I read them, but I think its turn will come soon. Xavier ... From: Wyatt James To:...
Since we are on Marsh, has anybody a list of Troy Alleyn's appearances in her works? I don't know why, but Troy is a character I like very much, and her...
I agree that this is one of her best books. I got totally caught out when the riddle was solved,I would have to reread to see whether it was actually "fair...
You need the Microsoft Reader, which is a free download from that same address. It's available for Pentiums - might be a bit slow on older PCs. To use it on a...
Didn't Christie's grandson, Matthew Pritchard, state that Endless Night was one Christie's favorite books? I also seem to recall that he said that she really...
... I'm not impressed when they say that "The Secret Adversary" was Agatha Christie's first novel, but then again, it's Microsoft, and what do they know? ...
... Maelbeatha, it seems. And just like you say, he seems to have been treated quite unfairly, since he was reportedly a rather capable king, and his reign...
I haven't read THE BEAST MUST DIE in many years and no longer have a copy, but Nick, you're the first person I've heard call it mediocre. I'd be interested to...
Dear Barry, I find The Beast Must Die much too long for its contents and anti-climactic: the principal idea would have made an excellent short story, but there...
Wyatt and other friends, +++ S P O I L E R +++ "Endless Night" is am illustration of what AC herself often said - she would write the same book [plot] over and...
I just finished reading a spate of Leslie Ford books. I was wondering what some of the other list members felt about how her books have held up over time. Jeff...
... climactic: the principal idea would have made an excellent short story, but there is not enough in it to make a decent novel (one of the reasons why I...
Just off the top of my head, two Marsh books that had Troy in them that I enjoyed were Spinsters In Jeopardy and Photo-Finish. Also Death In A White Tie was...
Has anybody read this book? Published ten years after the death of Craig Rice, supposedly found in a trunk in an attic. Rumours that it was completely ghost...
