Book Review: Patti Larsen’s “Dead Weight”
Find out how Georgia and Benjamin became a family in this tale of a fishy crime, a magical death, and a puppy with a nose for murder!
Genre: detective mystery
Book Review: J.D. Robb’s Creation in Death
A serial killer has returned to New York, a case Eve Dallas had worked along with Feeney nine years ago. The Groom is back torturing his brides, the display he makes of them makes it personal. To Eve.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Tied Up In Tinsel
A Christmas pageant turns unholy when a player disappears into the snowy night. Troy Alleyn is in the thick of it and why Inspector Roderick Alleyn joins her at Bill-Tasman’s estate where he’s dragooned into finding the lost man — and unraveling the glaring truth from the glittering tinsel.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s When in Rome
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, in Rome on a special mission, became involved in a murder case, and found it one of his most baffling—a case in which every suspect might equally well prove a victim…
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Hand in Glove
It’s a tangled set of relationships with family, trustees, theft, and a genealogical obsession until an irritating country gent is murdered amid all the friction in an English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. After a flamboyant dowager’s treasure hunt party, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn’s suspects are the tangle amidst the half-truths and too many motives.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Clutch of Constables
It’s five days out of time on a riverboat, exactly what Troy Alleyn needs until she meets the passengers and one of them disappears.
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s False Scent
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.False Scentby Ngaio Marsh detective mystery, forensic mystery, vintage mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Felony & Mayhem Press on February 15, 2015 and has 255 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Dead Water, Killer Dolphin, A Man Lay Dead, Enter a Murderer, The Nursing Home Murder, Death in Ecstasy, Vintage Murder, Artists in Crime, Death in a White Tie, Overture to Death, Death at the Bar, Surfeit of Lampreys, Death and the Dancing Footman, Died in the Wool, Swing, Brother, Swing, Night at the Vulcan, Colour Scheme, Spinsters in Jeopardy, Scales of Justice, The Death of a Fool, Singing in the Shroud, Clutch of Constables, Hand in Glove, When in Rome, Tied Up In TinselTwenty-first in the Inspector Roderick Alleyn vintage mystery series and revolving around a Scotland Yard detective in the late 1950s. My Take Well, it does tell you how great Miss Bellamy’s ego is when it starts off with her fantasy about who’s attending her funeral! […]
Book Review: Ngaio Marsh’s Singing in the Shroud
All aboard for murder, as the Cape Farewell steams out to sea, carrying a serial strangler who says it with flowers and a little song. It’s be up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to deal with a collection of neurotic, bombastic, shifty, and passionate passengers at one another’s throats.
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.
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.