Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Whose Body?
Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse, shaved after death, in the bath, naked but for a pair of gold pince-nez.
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Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s The Death of a Fool
This year’s Mardian Mawris dance includes several sacrifices, and the suspects are numerous. Detective-Inspector Alleyn dances about with various villagers, a close-knit family, and a nutty dowager.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Visions in Death
The dead are everywhere with their eyes taken and red ribbons entangling their necks. When a psychic appears to have the details, Lieutenant Eve Dallas accepts help from her only to find the stakes raised when her partner, Dee Peabody is attacked.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Divided in Death
In the year 2059, technology and humanity collide and a new computer virus has become the latest form of terrorism. Both sides are willing to kill and Reva Ewing appears to be a stumbling block, one that involves Roarke. It’s the murders that involve Lt Eve Dallas.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Scales of Justice
A charming English village and a cast of aristocrats reveal the darkness of betrayal with the help of a trout and a fish-eating cat to Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s Passenger to Frankfurt
A diplomat whose identity is “stolen” encounters his “thief” again and again, and each time she’s identified as a different person. Drawing Sir Stafford Nye into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than he could possibly imagine where no-one can be sure of anyone.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Crucible
An anthology that is ninth in the Tales of Valdemar with eighteen short stories in the Valdemar fantasy series and revolving around the inhabitants of the lands.
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Imitation in Death
It’s a game of imitation with a killer who despises women, and he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all starting with Jack the Ripper . . .
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Spinsters in Jeopardy
For Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the trip was to be official; for his family, a Mediterranean romp. But a plot torn from the pages of a gothic novel soon engulfed them all. Alleyn’s son was kidnapped. A very wealthy spinster was murdered. And in an eerie chateau, carved out of the Riviera mountainside, Alleyn faced the ultimate jet-set cult.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar
An anthology of sixteen short stories in the Tales of Valdemar fantasy series by a variety of authors, including Mercedes Lackey.