pickAs a bookseller my specialism was Crime, with emphasis on Cosy & Golden Era, so the Brit Lib reprints have featured heavily in my TBR pile.
This collection of shorts stands up well. There are, as always, a couple that probably could have been left out but for the most part it's a great collection. Mystery short-form is not the easiest genre to write, and the quality of these stories is a reflection of the great names included.
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This has been lurking on my bookshelves since I was working at Waterstones. Seems like a good time to read it!
pickThis vintage mystery was a great deal of fun, but a bit too repetitive for it to be a 5* read. Still, a pick for being engaging, humorous, and all around good fun.
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pickSuch a fascinating glimpse into parliament, politics and what it was like to be an early woman MP c. 1930s
(The murder mystery is a bit ho hum).
"But, sir, I've often wondered why more people don't get murdered in this place when you think of the opportunities."
Photo: detail of a painting I took a long time ago visiting the H of P. Is that Gordon Brown?
The policeman on duty at the door....explained with a grin that the Home Secretary's League of Women Voters had arrived en masse to be shown round and given tea. The Minister had escaped after assuring them how glad he was to see them, how delighted Mr West would be to show them everything, and how terribly disappointed he was that a Cabinet meeting prevented him from having that great joy himself.
He was angry that the Minister should have agreed to see Annette Oissel alone, an unprecedented action. No Minister ever sees any visitor without an official nurse in attendance. It is recorded that a recent Home Secretary, after laying down office, remarked to his wife, "How nice to be able to talk to you, my dear, without having the minutes taken by a secretary."
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Ah, those pre WhatsApp group times...
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pickFinished this one Thursday, I just didn‘t get a chance to post about it. This is a collection of short mystery/crime stories largely set in Scotland or by authors with a connection to Scotland. Many of them were very good; a few were disappointing, partly because they just hit different 70+ years later.
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so-soThis book really wanted a photo of a seedy nightclub, but it'll have to put up with a nice view.
Lawyer Will is asked by a friend to step in when a young woman tries to blackmail her husband for £££. As you would expect from crime fiction, things soon get very murky.
As with the rest of the series, includes an apology / explanation re the contemporary language and attitudes.
