Charity shops are not an overly mined setting or background for a mystery. Elizabeth Ferrars had some bloodied garments brought to a charity shop in The Pretty Pink Shroud (1977), but the charity s…| crossexaminingcrime
WARNING – THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK IF YOU DO NOT ALREADY KNOW THE SOLUTION TO THIS MYSTERY. This is a novel I have been meaning to re-read for some time, but for one rea…| crossexaminingcrime
January is chugging along so I thought I best get on with my re-reads for the month, starting with this one. I felt this would be a good one to return to, as whilst I remembered how the book starte…| crossexaminingcrime
First re-read of the month and one that has been on the cards for a while. After all I thought it would be nice to go back to the genuine article after what occurred earlier this year. Dr Arthur Ca…| crossexaminingcrime
Today’s review is part of my 2025 Green Penguin reading project. Julian Symons, like Michael Underwood (who I reviewed earlier this month), is another author I haven’t really engaged with in a whil…| crossexaminingcrime
