What I'm Reading
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stonepicnicking_okapi'Tis the season for Christmas mysteries!
I have read:
Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farejon (1937). A nice little horribly charming and utterly implausible scenario of a group of strangers being snowbound in a train car then they decide to get out and find themselves in a strange house (where tea has been laid but no one is home!) on Christmas. And the murders (most of them) have everything to do with the house and not the company of interlopers. I quite enjoyed it. It is one of two books from the British Library Crime Classics series which I found at the library.
I am reading:
Crimson Snow, which is a collection of winter mysteries, also part of the British Library Crime Classics. There's Ironsides, there's Campion, there's a Holmes pastiche that could have been written by any number of my clever friends. I'm half-way through and enjoying it.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Right now, I'm listening to:
Fog of Doubt by Christianna Brand (1952). I'm on a locked room jag and I read listened to Brand's Suddenly at his Residence and enjoyed it, so I thought I try this one, which is, according to the introduction, the author's favourite of her own works. The fog is almost a character itself. A Belgian comes to dinner and is killed and everybody in a household is a mile radius. It is Inspector Cockrill, who doesn't alienate or endear himself. There's a surprise pregnancy, which is not my favourite plot device in the world, but we'll see how it goes. It has locked room elements (the fog being the lock, so to speak) so it'll be interesting to see how it resolves and the writer (in the intro) says all isn't revealed until the final line, which I think is intriguing. Read by David Thorn who is one of a few very solid narrators (think Simon Vance and Simon Prebble) who don't 'perform' like some narrators (which has its own merits such as in the case of my beloved Cumberbatch) but simply gets out the way and lets you sink into the story.
Things I'm going to be re-reading:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas. Not my fave (which is "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding") but, hey, it's Poirot and Christmas.
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James.
I'm on the waitlist for The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries at the library, but who knows if I'll get it in time!
I have read:
Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farejon (1937). A nice little horribly charming and utterly implausible scenario of a group of strangers being snowbound in a train car then they decide to get out and find themselves in a strange house (where tea has been laid but no one is home!) on Christmas. And the murders (most of them) have everything to do with the house and not the company of interlopers. I quite enjoyed it. It is one of two books from the British Library Crime Classics series which I found at the library.
I am reading:
Crimson Snow, which is a collection of winter mysteries, also part of the British Library Crime Classics. There's Ironsides, there's Campion, there's a Holmes pastiche that could have been written by any number of my clever friends. I'm half-way through and enjoying it.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Right now, I'm listening to:
Fog of Doubt by Christianna Brand (1952). I'm on a locked room jag and I read listened to Brand's Suddenly at his Residence and enjoyed it, so I thought I try this one, which is, according to the introduction, the author's favourite of her own works. The fog is almost a character itself. A Belgian comes to dinner and is killed and everybody in a household is a mile radius. It is Inspector Cockrill, who doesn't alienate or endear himself. There's a surprise pregnancy, which is not my favourite plot device in the world, but we'll see how it goes. It has locked room elements (the fog being the lock, so to speak) so it'll be interesting to see how it resolves and the writer (in the intro) says all isn't revealed until the final line, which I think is intriguing. Read by David Thorn who is one of a few very solid narrators (think Simon Vance and Simon Prebble) who don't 'perform' like some narrators (which has its own merits such as in the case of my beloved Cumberbatch) but simply gets out the way and lets you sink into the story.
Things I'm going to be re-reading:
Hercule Poirot's Christmas. Not my fave (which is "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding") but, hey, it's Poirot and Christmas.
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James.
I'm on the waitlist for The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries at the library, but who knows if I'll get it in time!
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Date: 2018-12-06 02:41 pm (UTC)I need to find some more audio CDs for the new year.
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Date: 2018-12-06 04:01 pm (UTC)Oh, fun problem to have. The audio library maintained by my library is dwindling so I struggle to find things I want to listen to.