Literary Potpourri

This past December (for #DeanStreetDecember in fact), I read Conspiracy at Angel (1947) by Brian Flynn featuring his gentleman-detective Anthony Bathurst and enjoyed it very much, wanting to r...

The Appeal (2021) by Janice Hallet is a mystery/detective novel that follows a very different structure, epistolary, but in its modern-day form being entirely made up of a collection of emails, text messages and what’s app exchanges with police reports, newspaper reports, lawyer’s briefs, and post-it notes thrown in. Although this hasn’t appealled (that wasn’t a deli...

The Proper Place (1926) is a story of home and belonging, of status amid a changing world, of loss and grief and of responses to them, a delightful read peopled with an interesting cast of characters but also poignancy and melancholy.

I only came across O Douglas through Arpita @ Bag Full of Books and while I didn’t get the chance to join in the read of

I received a review copy of this book from Chronicle Books vis Edelweiss for which my thanks.

From Stephanie von Reiswitz, the writer/creator of the Murder Most Puzzling (2020) book and three mur...

Many thanks to the author for so kindly sending me a review copy of the book, and apologies for taking so long to get my thoughts down.

Life on a Mulberry Farm (2025) is a charming collection of short/episodic tales drawn from the author’s childhood memories and nostalgia of years spent living on a Mulberry farm, at a distance from the nearest city (and ind...