Medium – Book About the book – This book is the graphic novel version of the play, with the original text (not the ‘quick text’ modern version). The rich, successful Birling Family are having a quiet night in, celebrating the engagement of the daughter, Sheila, to son of Mr Birling’s competitor, Gerald Crofts. As MrContinue reading “2021 Book #71 – An Inspector Calls (Graphic Novel)”
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2021 Book #64 – Murder Under the Sun
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”
2021 Book #62 – The Moonflower Murders
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In the sequel to ‘Magpie Murders’, our heroine, Susan Ryland, is living in Crete with her boyfriend, running a slightly unsuccessful hotel. One day, she is approached by the Trehernes, the very wealthy owners of a hotel in Suffolk, which was also where their daughter Cecily was married.Continue reading “2021 Book #62 – The Moonflower Murders”
2021 Book #55 – Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Medium – Book About the Book – Mark Aldridge takes us through the appearances of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, from his genesis in 1920 to the latest Poirot film, ‘Death on the Nile’ released in 2021. For each appearance of Poirot, he discusses the ways in which the character is presented – from his evolution throughContinue reading “2021 Book #55 – Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World”
2021 Book #49 – A Study in Emerald
Medium – Book (Graphic Novel) About the Book – Set in a cross-over world of Sherlock Holmes and the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos, we meet the detective and his staunch companion, a wounded soldier. They are called to the murder of a member of the royal family, a creature with tentacles, green blood and a ‘faceContinue reading “2021 Book #49 – A Study in Emerald”
2021 Book #48 – Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
Medium – Book About the Book – Marion Lane is an Apprentice Investigator at Miss Brickett’s Investigations and Inquiries, a detective agency which is located in a huge underground complex located under the City of London. One night, a murder is committed inside the complex, meaning that one of Marion’s co-workers must be a murderer.Continue reading “2021 Book #48 – Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder”
2021 Book #47 – The Austen Girls
Medium – Book About the Book – The Austen Girls tells the stories of two of Jane Austen’s nieces – Fanny, the daughter of her rich brother, and Anna, the daughter of one of her poorer brothers. The two girls are thrown into the marriage market and must make their way through it, trying toContinue reading “2021 Book #47 – The Austen Girls”
2021 Book #43 – A Quiet Life in the Country
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Lady Hardcastle and her maid and best friend, Flo Armstrong, decide to move to the country in order to get some peace and quiet. They move to a beautiful, friendly village near one of Lady Hardcastle’s friends and enjoy about a week of calm. The calm is broken,Continue reading “2021 Book #43 – A Quiet Life in the Country”
2021 Book #36 – The Mitford Murders: Bright Young Dead
Medium – Book About the Book – Louisa Cannon is still working as a nursery maid in the Mitford home, three years after the events of the first Mitford Murders book. She is now 23, and is chafing a little at the tedium of life in service, as well as the class inequalities rife inContinue reading “2021 Book #36 – The Mitford Murders: Bright Young Dead”
2021 Book #33 – Mrs Hudson and the Lazarus Testament
Medium – Book About the Book – Mrs Hudson, the redoubtable housekeeper of Sherlock Holmes, and Flotsam, the maid and her investigative assistant, return in the third of these ‘Holmes and Hudson Mysteries’. The book follows Flottie as she works as a maid at 221B Baker Street in the 1880/1890s (we assume!) One day, asContinue reading “2021 Book #33 – Mrs Hudson and the Lazarus Testament”
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