Good heavens, I wish Gerald Verner had written 20 books about Simon Gale. The larger-than-life Gale — “He paints and he writes, but mostly he just does anything that appeals to him…” — featured in a mere three of Verner’s books: Noose for a Lady (1952), Sorcerer’s House (1956), and The Snark was a Boojum … Continue reading #1336: “This doesn’t happen to be a detective story, you see…” – Sorcerer’s House (1956) by Gerald Verner| The Invisible Event
I first read Not to be Taken, a.k.a. A Puzzle in Poison (1938), my debut experience of the work of Anthony Berkeley, after happening across a Black Dagger Crime edition in about 2005. And I bloody …| The Invisible Event
I’d previously read just one book by Cecil M. Wills, the Ramble House edition of Fatal Accident (1936), about which I remember nothing — though the fact that I didn’t review it mi…| The Invisible Event
