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Can't believe it's the close of August. 😳

I just got on kindle for 85p. @dabbe has just read and reviewed it , and being Ruth Rendell fan , I just purchased.

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Thanks, @AmgG, for this! 😍 Ruth Rendell, a master of psychological suspense, delivers a characteristically chilling and meticulously crafted novel in 13 STEPS DOWN. The book is a prime example of her ability to dissect the pathologies of the human mind without resorting to graphic violence or traditional thriller tropes. Instead, the horror is almost entirely internal, born from obsession, delusion, and the slow unraveling of a fragile psyche. ⬇️

In the U.S. it is often the case that only a couple of police officers are available to investigate a murder and that if they do not get some significant progress in the first day or two the case will be put on the back burner.

Looking forward to this #SummersEndReadathon hosted by the lovely @Bookwormjillk. I plan on reading as much of these as I can:

-THIRTEEN STEPS DOWN (almost done, @AmyG!)
-KATABASIS (just got it!)
-THE SIGN OF FOUR (#ChristieCapers)
-THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (#hashtagbrigade)
-TOMBLAND (#ShardlakeBR
-LES MIS (#readlemis)

That should about do it! 🤩

2nd installment of this series and it just keeps getting better! So glad I came in late to the game and I still have 3 more books available to read 😊

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S.C. Roberts didn't invent the Holmesian Game of treating the Canon as a factual subjects for critical analysis, but he is credited as having popularised it, so it was reasonable to assume his story, "The Adventure of the Megatherium Thefts" would feel authentic, and it does (phew! ?)
Rather than featuring a paleontological crime, the Megatherium in question is a gentleman's club similar to the Diogenes, but allowing more conversation between ⬇️

Stuart Palmer was a screenwriter and detective fiction writer, whose series of "spinster sleuth" mysteries featuring Hildegarde Withers sound interesting in both book and film form, and I'm minded to seek them out.
His Holmes pastiche, "The Adventure of the Marked Man" sees H&W in Cornwall investigating a series of death threats against an unassuming man. I don't think all the ends were quite gathered together, but it was still a good story 4?