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Perry Mason without a courtroom in sight. This is a total trip.

The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito - Perry Mason #23 by Erle Stanley Gardener

August 28, 2022 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr square series Well, now, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it?  Man, I love this series, and this one, #23, was just plain fun.  Not a courtroom in sight, and instead of Paul Drake putting in a bit of sleuthing footwork for Perry, he gets to be bait.  A good time was had by all. Banning Clarke and Salty Bowers are a pair of prospectors, seeking lost gold mines in Southern California. (Ahahaha, sure, boys.)  But Banning got mixed up with a wealthy dame (now […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: 1940s, 1940s mystery, cbr14, Erle Stanley Gardener, Malibu hideout, Mojave desert, perry mason, Prospecting, So Cal mystery, TV detective

elderberrywine's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: 1940s, 1940s mystery, cbr14, Erle Stanley Gardener, Malibu hideout, Mojave desert, perry mason, Prospecting, So Cal mystery, TV detective ·
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Introducing your new favorite crime solving duo

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

January 26, 2022 by Mikki Blu 3 Comments

Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn’t care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. Well, here we are in 2022 and this book starts off in 1942 New York.  Willowjean, aka Will, Parker is a young woman who works in the circus as a Jill-of-all trades.  When the book opens, she’s picking up extra work doing guard duty at a construction site.  As fortune has it, she saves the life of an older woman who […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: 1940s mystery, LGTBQ, Stephen Spotswood

Mikki Blu's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 1940s mystery, LGTBQ, Stephen Spotswood ·
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