Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Submarine Plans”
Poirot is summoned to the home of the head of the Ministry of Defense, to investigate the theft of top-secret plans for a new submarine.
Genre: vintage mystery
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Million Dollar Bond Robbery”
Poirot must prove the innocence of a young bank manager who has had a million dollars in bonds stolen from him while on a boat voyage to New York.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s The Dark Farewell
A not-quite-fake medium upsets newspaper man David Flynn on several levels even as news of a serial killer rampages through the county.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Adventure of the Clapham Cook”
It’s Mrs Todd’s frustration over her cook leaving without a word and several articles in a sensationalist newspaper that causes Hercule Poirot to link all these “coincidences” together.
Book Review: John Creasey’s The Toff Goes On
A frightened ballerina and a panicked Sussex village sets the Toff off as he pursues the trail of a Russian bad guy who inspires fear everywhere he goes.
Book Review: Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage
Multiple secrets are revealed as the police, Mr Clement, and Miss Marple all investigate who killed the man in the vicarage study.
Book Review: Jill Paton Walsh (Dorothy Sayer)’s The Late Scholar
It’s an embittered dispute at an Oxford college that requires the Visitor, Peter Wimsey, to decide the matter. Only, there’s the small matter of the Warden disappearing and inexplicable accidents that result in death that finds Peter and Harriet Wimsey staying on longer to solve the mysteries.
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Busman’s Honeymoon
Married at last, Lord Peter and Harriet find their honeymoon interrupted by a killer…
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night
A poison pen is creating havoc at Shrewsbury College, Harriet’s alma mater, and the female dons call on Harriet’s expertise in crime.
Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter stumbles into an ominous country mystery.