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Margery Allingham (1); Barbara Tuchman (1); Barry Goldwater (1); Katherine Dunn (1); William Wells Brown (1); Elaine Marie Alphin (1); Julian Barnes (1)

The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham

Notes from China by Barbara Tuchman

Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

On Cussing by Katherine Dunn

Narrative of William W Brown, A Fugitive Slave by William W Brown

An Unspeakable Crime by Elaine Marie Alphin

The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes

February 27, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Case of the Late Pig “The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is to not let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story.” This middle of the road mystery by Margery Allingham (I mean middle of the road in the sense that she is eight books into the series with this particular detective and about 10 books into her career) from 1937 begins with our narrator, the detective (erm criminologist) Albert Campion. He is called out into the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: barbara tuchman, Barry Goldwater, Elaine Marie Alphin, Julian Barnes, Katherine Dunn, Margery Allingham, William W Brown

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:136 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: barbara tuchman, Barry Goldwater, Elaine Marie Alphin, Julian Barnes, Katherine Dunn, Margery Allingham, William W Brown ·
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Round up 1

Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

A Window into Time by Peter F Hamilton

The 10th Victim by Robert Sheckley

The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham

Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino

September 11, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sword of the Lictor – 4/5 I might be getting a little series fatigue on these books. It doesn’t help the matter that this is the second time I am reading these books. I am doing that because while I have read them before I am trying reconcile my feelings of them with the rave reviews I read online. The thing I most like about the books is that the world they inhabit feels very strongly like the kind of world I would love […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth strout, gene wolfe, Italo Calvino, Maggie Smith, Margery Allingham, Peter F Hamilton, robert sheckley, Sōsuke Natsukawa, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:525 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: elizabeth strout, gene wolfe, Italo Calvino, Maggie Smith, Margery Allingham, Peter F Hamilton, robert sheckley, Sōsuke Natsukawa, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar ·
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A somewhat problematic murder mystery

February 4, 2018 by WistfulCynic 1 Comment

Last year, I gave up on Cannonball Read in February. I kept reading, but the pressure to review got to be too much, and I ended up too far behind. This year, I’m not going for quantity, but instead am aiming to tackle all the books that I’ve bought over the years that for one reason or another have sat unread on my shelves. The first of these books is The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham, which I bought several years ago at Hatchard’s because […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery Tagged With: Margery Allingham, murder mystery, Trigger Warning

WistfulCynic's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: Margery Allingham, murder mystery, Trigger Warning ·
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