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2025’s Dream Reprint – Let’s Get Voting

Last Saturday a group of bloggers, including myself nominated a classic crime novel, which we enjoyed and read last year, and felt should be reprinted, so more people can read them. For more details, here is a link to the launch post. Those of you who take part in the voting for the Reprint of the Year Award probably know the drill very well by now, but there are a couple of tw...


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Patreon Post: The Saint Valentine’s Day Murders (1984) by Ruth Dudley Edwards

Last month I reviewed the first book in the Robert Amiss series, Corridors of Death (1981) and given the title of today’s read it seemed appropriate to look at the second book this month. One advantage of the Civil Service setting is that the protagonist can be moved to different work placements. This means the social milieu can be invigorated through variety, which is something...


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Death of the Party (1958) by Ruth Fenisong

The Stark House Press regularly offer reprints in twofers, and I think it makes for an interesting reading experience, as it allows you to think more about a writer’s style or approach to mystery fiction. Looking at today’s read and Bite the Hand (1956), which I reviewed earlier this week, I think both depict relationships, family and romantic, as complicated dynamics which don’...


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Bite the Hand (1956) by Ruth Fenisong

It has been nearly five years since I have read anything by Ruth Fenisong. Back in 2020, in February in fact, I looked at Deadlock (1952) and Dead Weight (1962). In his introduction to Bite the Hand, Curtis Evans shares that: ‘Although Ruth Fenisong somewhat romanticises Grid Nelson, who as one of fortune’s favourites is even blessed with an independent income in the fashion of...


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2025’s Dream Reprint: My Nomination

Last month I published a post which asked a very important question: Which classic crime novel should be reprinted next? To explore this question a little more and to give it some focus, bloggers were invited to nominate a classic crime title, which they had read last year and enjoyed, but was currently out of print. For more information here is the launch post. These nominati...


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