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The year continues to zip past me. It feels like I blink and it is already the end of the month. Consequently, I was quite surprised to see that I had managed to read 15 books during February. Last month also saw the running of 2025’s Dream Reprint, and if you missed the results here’s a link. I also published a couple of different posts in February, an Agatha Christie floor pla...

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Last Autumn, based on a blog reader’s suggestion, I started doing monthly roundups for the classic crime reprints being published each month. Aside from December which I had to skip here are links to the previous roundups: October 2025, November 2025, January 2026.

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This might seem like an odd choice of book to be reviewing on my blog dedicated to crime fiction. But during advent season my husband made me a bookish advent calendar. This included many a book by Erle Stanley Gardner/ A. A. Fair, but it also featured a number of Garfield cartoon collections. Today’s read was one of them. It contains 9 stories unsurprisingly, each written by so...

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When deciding what to read next I am not usually one to pick up a book based on its cover. Although a good cover never hurts, and in the case of Tina Hodgkinson’s Agatha Christie’s London, the cover certainly added to its appeal. That said I was genuinely interested in the topic Tina chose. Her book is divided into three parts: ‘Part I looks at Agatha’s personal and family conn...

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I was pleased to receive a copy of this anthology, as it meant I could add a new name to my list of vintage Australian crime writers that I have read. Most of my classic crime reading from this continent has been centred on the 1940s-1960s, so it was interesting to be going further back in time with this collection.

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