I’ve had this link hanging around for some time. I’m ashamed to say I hadn’t read this story before last month, and located it due to a link from a blogger, which I’ve now lost.
It’s well worth reading, and a great deal of fun.
(Updated to include the link; my apologies to early readers!)
[This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of the places, people, or conflicts in this story are coincidental.] Elena and the village girls were in the woods outside the village gathering berries when they heard the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of their village. Gunfire was not unusual in their young lives….
I love British mystery series, in just about any period. Over the weekend I discovered a new one, to me, though it’s been around for some time and I missed it. This is Campion, set in the 1930s, with another of those kind of standard eccentric aristocratic detectives, complete with slightly mysterious butler. I would…
I just finished this book by Carole Nelson Douglas, and as usual I loved it. Definitely a 4, maybe better.
I previously wrote about Claws and Effect, and though I’ve read a couple of other books in this series I hadn’t posted anything about them. So I thought I’d write a few notes on another in this series. I want to warn you right off that this is a series in which the animals can…
Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter mysteries are among my favorite mystery books, so I was happy to find this collection of videos. I have to confess that I really didn’t like Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, but Edward Petheridge is much more convincing in the part. Harriet Walter is a convincing Harriet Vane. The story…
The moment Andrew laid eyes on Jake’s smiling face he knew that life in heaven would be hell for him, knowing that depraved sinner was there as well.
