John Rhode
Members of the Detection Club: Ask a Policeman
Reading Progress Update: 8% “The murder — if it was murder — of a man like Lord Comstock was an event of world-wide importance. The newspapers controlled by the millionaire journalist exerted an influence out of all proportion to their real value. Inspired by Comstock himself, they claimed at frequent intervals to be the real […]
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Miles Burton (aka John Rhode): The Secret of High Eldersham
Oh Lordy. Let me count the ways — or probably, better not. Short version: Lillelara, I’m positive this one isn’t for you. (Nor for BT, for that matter.) Let’s just pocket the $3 this equals to in BL-opoly money and move on, shall we? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1889717/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-100
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BL-opoly: Master Tracking Post
Status Quo of Bank Account: $20 Currently Reading for: Stay-Cation, #7: A book with a house on the cover Book: Miles Burton: The Secret of High Eldersham Length: 256 pages => + $3 upon completion My marker is based (of course) on my little assistants and good luck charms, Sunny and Charlie, who […]
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BL-opoly: Let the Games Begin!
First roll: 3 + 4 = 7 … which puts me on square 7: Stay-Cation: “Read a book that has a house on the cover, or that is related to something unique about your community (for example, if your community has a strawberry festival, read a book with strawberries on the cover).” Miles Burton’s Secret […]
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Members of the Detection Club: The Floating Admiral
Upon revisiting, much more fun than the first time around. Well, this was a reread for me and I said I was going to “tag along” with MR’s, BT’s and Lillelara’s buddy read — turns out I ended up whizzing through it because I liked it so much better this time around than when I […]
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The April Buddy Reads
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader All right, everyone, open thread for April buddy reads/readalongs/etc. What I know so far: April 1: Discworld is reading the 4th Discworld book, Mort, which is also the first in the “Death” subseries. The buddy read starts on April 1, and continues through the end of April, so you can jump […]
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Martin Edwards: The Golden Age of Murder
The early history of the Detection Club, told by its current president and first archivist. Martin’s knowledge of both Golden Age detective fiction and the lives of its writers is downright encyclopedic, and he tells a multi-faceted story very compellingly. At times I had the feeling that he was taking his own conjecture a bit […]
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