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For many years I have loved Phoebe Atwood Taylor’s 8-book Leonidas Witherall series (published under the penname Alice Tilton), but I must admit I have never quite got hooked on her longer Asey Mayo series. However, Penguin recently included today’s title in its new classic crime series (which distributes crime fiction previously reprinted by American Mystery Classics), and I de...

This was another wild card choice I picked for this month’s reviews. Today’s read was Cornish’s sole foray into writing crime fiction. Information on the dustjacket of my copy states that: ‘Constance Cornish spent the first fourteen years of her life travelling all over the world with her father, who made film travelogues. She then returned to her native America and still in her...

George Bellairs set a few of his mysteries on the Isle of Man such as Death of a Tin God (1961) and Half-Mast for the Deemster (1953). Today’s read is also another example of this setting in use.

Inspired by my recent Classic Crime Reprints roundup post for July, which mentions the printing of a new edition of Van Gulik’s The Chinese Nail Murders (a book I remember enjoying), I decided to take a book at the Judge Dee short story collection sitting on my TBR pile. I have previously only read Judge Dee novels and given my lukewarm response to later books in the Judge Dee s...

I first came across this author and his series when last reading another chunk of A Catalogue of Crime by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. They reviewed two of Catalan’s mysteries, Catalan being the penname for Henri Dupuy-Mazuel (1885–1962). Today’s read is part of Catalan’s Soeur Angèle series, featuring a crime solving nun. There appears to be 12 books in the series...