
The Detection Club
With my Detection Club Bingo card now blacked out, I’m going to track my reading here. (Note: for purposes of completeness, this includes books by the below authors already read prior to the creation of this list.) My priorities are going to be: Arthur Conan Doyle’s / Sherlock Holmes’s adventures, biographies, contemporaries and rivals, as […]
Read More
Detection Club Bingo
The Squares / Chapters: 1. A New Era Dawns: Ernest Bramah – The Tales of Max Carrados; Emmuska Orczy – The Old Man in the Corner 2. The Birth of the Golden Age: A.A. Milne – The Red House Mystery 3. The Great Detectives: Margery Allingham – The Crime at Black Dudley, Mystery Mile, Look […]
Read More
Kill Your Darlings
Aaaand … that’s a wrap. My Kill Your Darling Books. Green Round: Team MbD – Lillelara – TA Round 1 Suspect Own guess / card played: Madeleine L’Engle – wrong – 5 points Correct guess: None Victims Own guess / card played: Katniss Everdeen – 5 points Correct guess: None Crime Scenes Own guess […]
Read More
221B Baker Street
The World of London’s Only Consulting Detective Arthur Conan Doyle Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links Sherlock Holmes Book review: The Valley of Fear Short story review: The Speckled Band Short story review: The Sussex Vampire TV series review: Sherlock Holmes (Granada TV / ITV 1984 – 1994, starring Jeremy Brett) On […]
Read More