Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Narrated by Hugh Fraser (who plays Captain Hastings in the ITV Poirot stories), the thirteen stories in this collection are summery, holiday tales filled to the brim with murder and deception. The stories include the detectives Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, as well as a few stand aloneContinue reading “2021 Book #64 – Murder Under the Sun”
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2021 Book #20 – Forensics
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Crime Writer Val McDermid investigates the use of forensics in the solving of crime, looking at various areas of forensic enquiry, such as forensic psychology, forensic accounting and digital investigation, pathology and forensic anthropology, alongside many others. She interviews mainly British/Irish experts from across those disciplines, discussing theContinue reading “2021 Book #20 – Forensics”
2021 Book #6 – Wicked Boy
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Written by the author of ‘The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher’, Kate Summerscale tells the story of Robert Allen Coombs, who, at the age of 14, murdered his mother. The book traces the murder and its aftermath, from the actions of Robert and his brother Natty after the killingContinue reading “2021 Book #6 – Wicked Boy”
TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown
Medium – Book About the Book – The first in the series of Father Brown short stories, written by G.K. Chesterton. The book introduces the character of Father Brown, the catholic priest with the propensity for solving crimes, alongside his enemy-but-then-friend, the criminal Hercule Flambeau. The book gives 12 short stories, all showing off FatherContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown”
Book #47 – A Pocket Full of Rye
Prompt – A book published in the 20th Century Medium – Book About the Book – Rex Fortescue, an investor and king of a financial empire, is found dead in his office (‘counting house’) after being poisoned. When his body is examined, he is found to have a pocket full of cereal, specifically, rye. HisContinue reading “Book #47 – A Pocket Full of Rye”
Book #6 – Grey Mask
Prompt – ‘A book set in the 1920s’ – despite the cover, it definitely is! Medium – Book About the book – Written by Patricia Wentworth in 1928, this is the first in the Miss Silver set of mysteries, a fairly close replica of the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie. Charles Moray returns fromContinue reading “Book #6 – Grey Mask”
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