So much unfulfilled potential. An Oxford setting, a mysterious death, college intrigue, and an underlying issue that is worthy of discussion and that would still have been a taboo at the time of writing. Seriously, there was so much in this book that should have been the foundation of an excellen...
Gerry had arranged with Beryl on Sunday that she should drive him to Euston and take the Alvis back to Beverley House. “Urgent business,” he had said to her—“and confidential. I’ll explain on the way to the station.” “Urgent business has become a sort of disease,” Beryl had thought. “Gerry has cau...
This is a catch up review - I failed to write one up immediately after finishing the book a few weeks ago. I read it for Chapter 11, Education, Education, Education, which focuses on mysteries set in boarding school/university. This one was set in the fictional Persephone College at Oxford Universit...
Meh. I think if the protagonists of this mystery had been some 3 or 5 years younger, and if I'd read this in my teens or preteens, I'd have loved it -- this is exactly the sort of book I used to swallow way back when (Enid Blyton's O'Sullivan Twins / St. Clare's and Famous Five series, The Three In...
Of all of my Christmas reads this year to date, I can't think of a more fitting candidate for the Christmas holiday book bonus joker. This is a nicely plotted Golden Age country house holiday party mystery, with decidedly more likeable than non-likeable characters, a light enough touch to make the ...
“Well, I’m jiggered!” said Constable Mere. “We looked in that pile! I’d’ve said there couldn’t be a dead rat left in it, let alone Father Christmas’ Sunday suit!” I was inspired by Moonlight Reader to pick this up. The Santa Klaus Murder is another installment of the British Library Crime Classics ...
I actually read this a little while ago, delighted to find an unknown-to-me Golden Age mystery writer. Now, having read and moderately enjoyed it a second time thanks to Netgalley, I don't know whether it's my fault or the book's that I honestly can't remember whodunnit…. It could just be my brain. ...
A family Christmas with everyone gathering at the country house - then shock and horror when the not so nice patriarch is murdered. Every member of this family has something to gain by this death. Step back in time - not that long ago in years but a world away in attitudes and values. The book is sl...
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