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• "Smallbone Deceased"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  It is distressing when members of a prestigious English law firm cannot find one of their prominent clients, the trustee of a charitable foundation. It is more distressing when that client turns up - quite dead - inside an oversized safe deposit box, or deed box. Thats the situation in " Smallbone Deceased ," by ...
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• Darkly Dreaming Dexter

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  Darkly Draeming Dexter is the first in Jeff Lindsay’s series of Dexter novels that have since been adapted into a successful TV series. The novel (and indeed all subsequent novels) are, on the one hand, straightforward whodunnits, but with one rather ingenious difference. Dexter, a police department pathologist, ...
  3 days ago

• "The Longer Bodies"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  Murder most British is on tap this week, as our "Classic Mysteries" podcast reviews " The Longer Bodies ," by Gladys Mitchell. This novel, which first appeared in 1930, features the detective work of Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, a psychiatrist who helps the police - and who is sufficiently eccentric in her appearance ...
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• A Trio of Pennies...or rather Pennys

  
  Jen's Book Thoughts — Authority: 123
  Since Ive been slacking a bit on my reviews...o.k., Ive been slacking a lot. Im behind. So, Im going to review three books together today. They all share a common theme - Armand Gamache. I listened to A FATAL GRACE , THE CRUELEST MONTH , and A RULE AGAINST MURDER on audiobook, all read by Ralph Cosham. FIRST ...
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• Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 469
  In his introduction to Bloomsbury’s striking new edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination Neil Gaiman says: Poe’s stories – even his humorous tales, even his detective stories – are populated by amnesiacs and obsessives, by people doomed to remember what they desire only to forget, and are told be ...
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• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 121
    The black bird’s on the move during Rockaway Public Library’s Big Read of  The Maltese Falcon . Photo courtesy of the library With nearly 30 books to his credit,  Walter Mosley may be best known for his 11 mysteries featuring the deceptively-named L.A. detective  Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. In this ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Spellman Files

  
  Bryan's Book Blog — Authority: 129
  by Lisa Lutz -The Spellman Series, Book One- (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007) Hardcover, 358 Pages, Fiction ISBN: 9781416532392 , US$25.00 ABCD Rating: ACQUIRE From the Cover: Meet Isabel “Izzy” Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Miracle of the Two-Week Rare Book: A Nancy Drew Mystery

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 500
  We rare book collectors and dealers have, apparently, been asleep. While we’ve been aslumber, the meaning of “rare” has undergone a radical transformation guaranteed to startle us to wide-eyed wakefulness. “RARE NANCY DREW APPLEWOOD THE MESSAGE IN THE HOLLOW OAK Item #200366792295 . FROM A SMOKE AND PET-FREE ...
  4 weeks ago

• "The Case of the Late Pig"

  
  LB's Rambles — Authority: 125
  Interesting situation for Albert Campion: he attends the funeral of someone he knew at school, a bully named Pig Peters. Some six months later, he is called in to help solve a murder - and the body, murdered in the last 24 hours, is that of Pig Peters. A peculiar situation - and, for Campion, it will be a most ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Girl Who Played with Fire

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  This is the second volume in Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (the final volume was published earlier this week in the UK) and I found it an even more satisfying read than The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ). The same series of characters play their part and Larsson’s anti-heroine, Lisbeth Salander, is his most ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  I had put off reading this book for a while, purely on the basis of th large amount of hype that has surrounded it in the last twelve months in the UK. Last year it was one of the ‘must-reads’ of the summer. So I waited for this summer to read it. The author, Stieg Larson, who died suddenly, shortly after ...
  5 weeks ago

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