It’s true that, by reading a lot of crime and detective fiction and trying to write three posts a week on that subject, I sometimes forget to just enjoy my reading. So thank heavens it’s time for another Alasdair Beckett-King novel, with Sabotage at Sea (2025) being the fourth in the Montgomery Bonbon corpus. This … Continue reading #1325: Minor Felonies – Montgomery Bonbon: Sabotage at Sea (2025) by Alasdair Beckett-King [ill. Claire Powell]| The Invisible Event
I cannot remember how I stumbled across Stuart Gibbs’ Space Case (2014), but whatever combination of events brought it to my attention is to be thanked for the 11 books of his I’ve now …| The Invisible Event
I’m not entirely sure what I expected from The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius, but it wasn’t a Gulliver’s Travels (1726)-esque multinational adventure written by an intelligent gorilla. And while the book that results is in no way a bad thing, it’s also not really a murder mystery in the vein of what I’m … Continue reading #1319: Minor Felonies – The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius [trans. Peter Graves 2017]| The Invisible Event
A third mystery for Roger, Diana, Snubby, Loony, Barney, and Miranda, and, well, one that frankly makes me wonder if I’ll bother reading the remaining three books in this series. I suppose my main difficulty with The Ring O’ Bells Mystery (1951) by Enid Blyton is that not only is it not very mysterious, it’s … Continue reading #1316: Minor Felonies – The Ring O’ Bells Mystery (1951) by Enid Blyton| The Invisible Event
Current crime and detective fiction fans needn’t look too hard to find a successful children’s author who transitioned well into writing books for grown-ups, and now Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal (2021) and four subsequent books, is heading in the other direction, with A Box Full of Murders (2025) being her debut for the … Continue reading #1313: Minor Felonies – A Box Full of Murders (2025) by Janice Hallett| The Invisible Event
Mary Virginia Carey was not, it seems, scared of a little velitation in her stewardship of The Three Investigators. Having written arguably the strongest post-Robert Arthur title in The Mystery of the Singing Serpent (1972), Carey structured The Mystery of Monster Mountain (1973) like a classical whodunnit, pulling out some strong clewing on the way … Continue reading #1312: Curious Incidents in the Night-Time in The Mystery of the Invisible Dog (1975) by M.V. Carey| The Invisible Event
Comments were made in the, er, comments of my previous Three Investigators review, The Secret of Phantom Lake (1973) regarding an apparently love-it-or-hate-it element to the next title in the seri…| The Invisible Event
Last weekend, it was my distinct honour to present for a fourth time at the Bodies from the Library conference, in this instance on the topic of Enid Blyton’s detective fiction as represented…| The Invisible Event
One final mystery for Fatty, Bets, Daisy, Larry and Pip as, nearly seven years after first discovering them myself, and after a literary life spanning some 18 years, the Five Find-Outers and dog re…| The Invisible Event
Another case for Fatty, Bets, Daisy, Larry, and Pip, albeit one that rings a few minor changes…| The Invisible Event