This book was a recent online acquisition which I discovered when I came across the clearance page on the Waterstones website. It has been nearly four years since I have read anything by McCloy, so…| crossexaminingcrime
Second-hand copies of early McCloy are difficult to come by, so I was pleased to see Agora Books were going to be reprinting some of them. Also pleasingly, it appears that the Agora copies have ret…| crossexaminingcrime
I’ve read less than a handful of novels by McCloy and so far it has been a mixed reading experience. One of my favourites to date has been Wish You Were Dead (1958), which is an abridged version of…| crossexaminingcrime
Not a planned read, but one I am very glad I did, nevertheless. This title might not be so familiar to McCloy fans, but it was the one given to the abridged version of She Walks Alone (1948), which…| crossexaminingcrime
Today’s read is regarded as one of the classics of the vintage crime fiction. I’ve tried McCloy’s work a couple of times in the past and decided now would be an apt moment to take another sample, g…| crossexaminingcrime
I first sampled this duo’s work last year, reviewing From Information Received (1962). An imperfect title, but one that left me intrigued as to what the rest of their work was like. So it has been …| crossexaminingcrime
This tale of suspense is split into two parts. The first takes place on 1960-61, beginning with Sophronia Holland’s New Year’s Eve party. She is awaiting the arrival of her long lost granddaughter …| crossexaminingcrime
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