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July saw a bit of a dip in my reading. I guess we all have months like that sometimes. Of what I did read there were quite a few meh reading experiences, which didn’t help. On the plus side I did rewatch the TV series, Ludwig at the start of July, which was very enjoyable and I am definitely looking forward to series 2 when it comes out. Despite some poorer reads this month the...

Theodora McCormick Du Bois (1890-1986) is a new-to-me-author who wrote across several genres including mystery fiction and romance, as well as sci-fi and fantasy. In terms of numbers mystery fiction was probably her most prolific genre. She wrote a series featuring husband and wife sleuthing team, Anne and Jeffrey McNeill, the latter of whom is a doctor. Theodora began writing t...

July is nearly at an end so let’s take a look at the themes we had for #MurderEveryMonday, this month…

At the end of last week, I reviewed the first of two mysteries recently reprinted by Elizabeth Fenwick, The Inconvenient Corpse (1943). Comparing the two I would say that the sleuthing (amateur and professional) is more competent in The Inconvenient Corpse. Meanwhile the cast of characters is perhaps larger in Murder in Haste, with the setting of the story sprawling across sever...

Today I am looking at the first of two mysteries written by Elizabeth Fenwick, which have recently been reprinted in a Stark House Press twofer. I will be reviewing the second, Murder in Haste in my next post. The Inconvenient Corpse is part of a moderate-sized body of mysteries which involve a reunion of some kind. This might seem like rather a niche setting, but there are a s...