The Big Issues: Annoying Detectives & a Woman of Substance
I WILL BUY THEM ALL BACK - more jumble sale lore
There’s nothing my regular blog readers like better than an item that they can contribute to, and here it is
Annoying Detectives - a list
Everybody delighted to add their own pesky investigators and vexatious policemen - and there’s room for more.
actually a doctor, but looks like an annoying detective
Then there was my piece for the i newspaper on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance. A look back at Thatcher, and an era of male domination of book-reviewing - I wouldn’t have been writing about this book for a national newspaper back in the day
Culture at the i newspaper: A Woman of Substance
The jumble sales in books keep coming!.I have done a few in previous posts, readers come up with suggestions, and so we have some good stories, and a Patricia Moyes classic detective story, Murder Fantastical, with a wonderful fete with jumble stall. The fete details more covincing than the rest of it - but they are excellent.
Jumble Sales Fantastical
And why do we say I’M GOING TO BUY THEM ALL BACK in my family…?
I also squeezed in a classic blog entry on a Golden Age detective story: Anthony Berkeley’s The Layton Court Mystery. Is it the first country-house-party mystery? Jim Noy says so. Good fun, though I have issues. (and there are no clothes descriptions)
The Layton Court Mystery
Thanks for reading and contributing