Hi, I'm Sister Mary Murderous. I'm Maine Colonial on Amazon. I'm a semi-retired lawyer, and after spending our school and full-time career years in Chicago and San Francisco, my husband and I returned to Maine to resume The Way Life Should Be. I always thought that in retirement I'd be able to read...
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Maine Colonial on Amazon on Goodreads. I was Maine Colonial when I first started here, but changed it to Sister Mary Murderous because that's my moniker on my Read Me Deadly blog.
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Oh, so true. It all depends on what you're in the mood for. Remember the movie The Big Chill where William Hurt's character is sitting up all night watching old black-and-white gangster movies on TV and one of the other guys comes downstairs and quizzes him on what the movie is about? Finally, th...
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Penguin is doing all new translations (and audiobook productions) of Simenon's Maigret series. I'm thinking about reading them all as they come out. He wrote them over the course of 40 years and I think it would be interesting to see how his depiction of Paris and the French change over that perio...
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Oof, don't remind me of Have His Carcase! I love Lord Peter and Harriet, but that plot is dreadful.
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I agree about the social criticism element in so many modern Eurocrime books. I'm also not in love with this "Tartan Noir" label; similarly not crazy about "Nordic Noir." Your mention of Native American mysteries is a good one and reminds me about the label "regional mysteries," which a lot of peo...
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The cozy sub-genre drives me nuts because I think it's too broad. There's just too much difference between a traditional amateur detective story like a Christie or a Sayers and a tea shop or crafts-y cozy. So I tend to think use "traditional" as a classification for amateur detective stories tha...
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I think Sayers's mysteries are way more complex emotionally than Christie's. Gaudy Night is my favorite too, with Busman's Honeymoon a close second. I didn't realize until recently that Sayers wrote Busman's Honeymoon as a stage play (with Muriel St Clare Byrne) and then as a book. I've never see...
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