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MY READER'S BLOCK: Panic in Paradise
Panic in Paradise (1951) by Alan Amos (Kathleen Moore Knight) Julian and Serena Cornish live in Casa Paraiso, between the Pacific coast o...| myreadersblock.blogspot.com
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Death of the Party (1985) by Leela Cutter (Mark Giles & Linda Shank)Lettie Winterbottom, well-known mystery writer and sometime amateur sleuth, is surprised to get an invitation to the grand opening of the Gwenna Hardcastle Museum of Historical Romance. Lettie has never had an ounce of respect for or any contact with the author of bodice ripper romance novels and wild horses couldn't drag her to that woman's party. But her niece Julia Carlisle (and fellow amateur detective) has no such scrupl...| MY READER'S BLOCK
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952) by Agatha Christie| MY READER'S BLOCK
The Nine Waxed Faces (1936) by Francis Beeding (John Leslie Palmer & Hilary St. George Saunders)In the absence of his chief, Colonel Granby, Bob Hardcastle was serving as head man at intelligence headquarters when an urgent message came in from an Italian painter who had provided information in the past. Ludwig Berthold needs to meet with a highly placed intelligence office, so Hardcastle goes himself--only to receive a coded message that directs him to another, more famous, painter and a sec...| MY READER'S BLOCK
Crooked House (1948) by Agatha Christie| MY READER'S BLOCK
Panic in Paradise (1951) by Alan Amos (Kathleen Moore Knight) Julian and Serena Cornish live in Casa Paraiso, between the Pacific coast o...| myreadersblock.blogspot.com
A Knife in the Fog (2018) by Bradley HarperNot long after the publication of A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle (not yet Sir), receives a message from former Prime Minister William Gladstone's secretary, Jonathan Wilkins, urgently asking him to come to come to London--"as many lives may lie upon its balance." Assuming that the summons is medical (though a bit mystified why Gladstone would call upon him), Doyle arranges to go. Only to find out that Gladstone wants him to work with the poli...| MY READER'S BLOCK
She Came Back (The Traveller Returns; 1945) by Patricia Wentworth (Dora Amy Turnbull)Anne Jocelyn came back alright--back from the dead, apparently. To the shock of her family and especially her husband Sir Philip Jocelyn. Anne had gone to France to see about claiming a legacy (that Philip had told her not to accept) and was caught in the first German assault on France. Philip had arrived to get his wife, her look-alike cousin, and anyone else in the household he could to safety. Under fire...| MY READER'S BLOCK
Death on Gokumon Island (1948) by Seishi YokomizoGokumon Island has a long, forbidding reputation--with a name meaning Hell's Gate Island and a history as a pirate stronghold. Since its pirate days, it came to be ruled by two strong, clannish fishing families. The head family, long lead by Kaemon Kito, is depending on Kaemon's grandson Chimata to return from the war and take his place as head of the family. But Kosuke Kindaichi, the famous detective, served with Chimata and when his friend su...| MY READER'S BLOCK
Murder at Ardith Hall (2021) by Irina ShapiroMurder strikes again in the vicinity of Lord Jason Redmond and Inspector Daniel Haze. This time, Mr. Stillman, a guest at a private seance being held at Ardith Hall, dies as the medium begins to channel the spirits. What initially looks like a poisoning winds up being even more sinister--someone had been feeding Stillman a regular diet of ground glass. The arsenic in his pre-seance drink brought on a respiratory attack that ruptured the his already...| MY READER'S BLOCK
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Gently with the Innocents (1970) by Alan Hunter Adrian Peachment implores Inspector Gently to investigate the death of his uncle James Pe...| myreadersblock.blogspot.com
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One Fell Sloop (1990) by Susan Kenney This is the third and last of a short academic mystery series which features Roz Howard, American l...| myreadersblock.blogspot.com
