Month: February 2018
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling): The Cuckoo’s Calling
J.K. Rowling Does “Mystery” … and really, is there anything she can’t write? This may not be the most ingenious of plots (supermodel with “issues” falls to her death from the balcony of her high rise apartment; after the police have declared her death a probable suicide and closed the case, her brother shows up […]
Read MoreMavis Doriel Hay: Death on the Cherwell
Enid Blyton in Oxford Meh. I think if the protagonists of this mystery had been some 3 or 5 years younger, and if I’d read this in my teens or preteens, I’d have loved it — this is exactly the sort of book I used to swallow way back when (Enid Blyton’s O’Sullivan Twins / […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings: The Victims
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1645675/kill-your-darlings-the-victims
Read MoreRadclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness
The Love That Dare Shout Its Name (and Boy, Does It Ever) Stephen Gordon grows up in the Malvern Hills of rural Worcestershire, the child of a rich local landowner and an Irish mother, from early on learns to hunt, fence, and engage in a plethora of other outdoor occupations, experiences first amorous stirrings for […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings: Weapon Files
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1645463/kill-your-darlings-weapon-files
Read MoreKill Your Darlings: Rules of Play
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader One of our most popular authors has gone off the rails, and is killing beloved characters!* We need a group of dedicated investigators to solve the crime, and stop the killer before he (or she) can kill again! *The murderer is only killing characters that belong to other authors. The […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings: Crime Scene Files
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Original post: http://moonlightreader.booklikes.com/post/1644737/kill-your-darlings-crime-scene-files
Read MoreA Note on Kill Your Darlings game play!
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader I’m working on the game right now, and will be posting more over the next few days. However, I can see a bit of confusion already developing! Players won’t be “playing” as suspects or victims. I don’t want to deter anyone from using their imagination, so feel free to […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings: The Suspect Files
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1644609/kill-your-darlings-the-suspect-files
Read MoreKill Your Darlings: The Concept and a Brief Overview
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Generally, the game will work like a game of clue, with one player – me – holding the solution to the mystery, and the other players working to solve the crime. Guesses will be taken on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Each player can only make one guess per day […]
Read MoreAnnouncing: Kill Your Darlings – a booklikes murder mystery reading game
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Ever since Tigus mentioned his old Murder Mystery Game, I’ve been wracking my brains for a way to adapt it to a Booklikes Reading Game. And By George, I think I’ve got it. What this game is: A fun-filled opportunity to solve a crime – by reading books! A […]
Read MoreAnthony Rolls: Family Matters
All in the Family Ooooh, I’m so glad this book was rescued from oblivion by the editors of the British Library Crime Classics series. And I’m all the more glad for the fact that, reading its description, I didn’t expect half the delights it would turn out to have in store. Family Matters is, on […]
Read MoreWell, well, go figure …
… who but Bonn Opera’s very own Sumi Hwang got to perform the Olympic Hymn at today’s opening ceremony in Pyong Chang?! A short interview with her on the experience (in German) is here — she talks about this being a once in a lifetime experience that she’s now privileged to share with the likes […]
Read MoreAnthony Berkeley: The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anatomy of a Murder … Courtesy of the Detection Club Anthony Berkeley (full name: Anthony Berkeley Cox) was one of the co-founders of the legendary Detection Club; he published mysteries both under his own name (minus “Cox”) and the pseudonym Francis Iles, which when he first used it was kept a secret so successfully that […]
Read MoreJosephine Tey: Brat Farrar & The Franchise Affair
A Josephine Tey Double Dip Both Brat Farrar and The Franchise Affair were on my 2017 Halloween Bingo long list, but so were many other books … oh well. Both of these are stand-out books, in that (1) they’re not, or not substantively, part of Josephine Tey’s Inspector Grant series (in Franchise Affair Grant appears, […]
Read MoreEmmuska Orczy: The Old Man in The Corner
London’s First Armchair Detective This is a collection of twelve stories taken from the first two (of three) books featuring the “Old Man in the Corner,” one of Emmuska Orczy’s very first literary creations and — but for Edgar Allan Poe’s M. Dupin (who solves the Mystery of Marie Rogêt solely based on a number […]
Read MoreJuli Zeh: Schilf / Dark Matter
Parallelwelten / Parallel Worlds Intelligent und frech: Das Buch wird als “Physikerkrimi” vermarktet, aber das trifft es meines Erachtens nicht wirklich; tatsächlich ist dies die alte Geschichte von Faust und Mephisto im Gewand zweier Freunde, die sich als Physikstudenten kennengelernt haben und später im Leben verschiedene Wege gegangen sind, sowohl persönlich als auch fachlich […]
Read More