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The Devil in Music

  The Devil in Music (1997) by Kate Ross In a flashback to four years ago, Ross starts the story with Lodovico Malvezzi, an autocratic Ital...

Murder Roundabout (spoilerish)

  Murder Roundabout (1966) by Richard Lockridge The lovely Annette Weaver ( née  LeBaron, film star) had thrown a picnic on the Fourth of J...

The Corpse with the Grimy Glove

 The Corpse with the Grimy Glove (aka More Than One Serpent , 1938) by R. A. J. Walling This is the 15th entry in the Philip Tolefree serie...

The Ghost Finders

  The Ghost Finders (2021) ~Adam McOmber The Ghost Finders firm, founded by Phillip Langford, consists of Henry Caxton, Violet Asquith, and...

A Broken Vessel

  A Broken Vessel (1994) by Kate Ross Regency dandy Julian Kestrel is brought into a second mystery--this time by the sister of his valet, ...

The Five Red Herrings (audio version)

  The Five Red Herrings (1931) by Dorothy L. Sayers [read by Patrick Malahide]  I'm still treating myself to audio presentations of the...

Midsummer Nightmare

 Midsummer Nightmare (1945) by Christopher Hale (Frances Moyer Ross Stevens) Olivia Warburton is the confidential secretary to Sybrand Jenn...

Clouds of Witness

  Clouds of Witness  (1926) by Dorothy L. Sayers (read by Ian Carmichael) Lord Peter Wimsey's brother--Gerald, Duke of Denver--had gathe...

Death Stops the Frolic

  Death Stops the Frolic (aka Turmoil in Zion ; 1943) by George Bellairs (Harold Blundell) The village of Swarebridge is all set to celebra...

The Golden Box

 The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane Jean Holly (not yet Abbott) returns to her home town in Illinois to visit an ailing aunt. She hasn...

The Murderer Who Wanted More

 The Murderer Who Wanted More (1943) by Baynard Kendrick Bonnie Critten was mugged in her apartment's vestibule. A few days later she w...

The Egyptologist

  The Egyptologist (2004) by Arthur Phillips The first storyline opens in Egypt,1922. Ralph Trilipush, Egyptologist lately of Harvard, is w...

Murder at the Spring Ball

  Murder at the Spring Ball (2021) by Benedict Brown Set in England, 1925. After his beloved wife's death, Christopher Prentiss's g...

Overture to Death

  Overture to Death (1939) by Ngaio Marsh When reading the synopsis for  Overture to Death  (1939) by Ngaio Marsh, one can be excused for t...

An Old Betrayal

 An Old Betrayal (2013) Charles Lenox's detective protégé, Lord John Dallington, is very sick and asks Lenox to meet a client at Charin...

The Green Island Mystery

  The Green Island Mystery (1949) by Betsy Allen (Betty Cavanna) The fifth installment in the Connie Blair series finds Connie and Georgia ...