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mabell
Measure for Murder | Clifford Witting
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A country village mystery set amidst amateur theatricals, specifically Shakespeare‘s Measure for Measure.

The story doesn‘t not play (ha!) out as expected, compete with a shocking twist.

#1941 for #192025

Librarybelle Love how your flowers match the cover! 2w
mabell @Librarybelle Ha, they do! Entirely planned 😂 2w
mabell @Gissy I forgot to say thank you for sending it! ❤️ 2w
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LeahBergen I need to try this author! 2w
mabell @LeahBergen I‘ve read two so far, and enjoyed them (the humor is great!) I will say, and I can‘t put my finger on why exactly, that they aren‘t my favorite mysteries. 🤷‍♀️ 2w
LeahBergen Thanks! I‘ll keep that in mind. 😊 2w
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quietjenn
Jumping Jenny | Anthony Berkeley
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Lazy, rainy Saturday. 🙂

Tamra Perfect! 😍 4w
LeahBergen How is this one? It‘s waiting on my shelves. 4w
batsy Love the cover! 4w
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Mitch
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An enjoyable mystery superbly written. The characters are lively and well drawn - with many quirks and oddities! Put these characters into an equally complex setting where the smallest details create atmosphere and builds a strong, visual stage and it becomes a much more complex and engaging mystery than many. Written in 1932 it is evocative of its time.

LeahBergen I have this in one of my online shopping carts. 😆 1mo
Mitch @LeahBergen I think you‘ll love it 4w
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quietjenn
Two-Way Murder | E.C.R. Lorac
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No Macdonald in this one, but still a very clever and enjoyable mystery from Lorac.

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Jess_Read_This
Cottage Sinister | Q. Patrick
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📬Recent bookmail.
Season of Snows has newlyweds torn apart by the war. While the husband is serving, the wife finds herself being pursued by the married partner at the firm where she works. Then her newly released POW husband returns. (Queue dramatic 🎶)
Cottage Sinister is one of the Quentin books that is co-written by a woman. And it sounds like a terrific read.
Doesn‘t this Belgian chocolate bar look like the perfect Middlebrow accompaniment?

rubyslippersreads I 💙 everything about this photo! 2mo
Ruthiella It does! 🍫🇧🇪😋👍 2mo
Aimeesue A perfect pairing of chocolate and books! 2mo
batsy Yes, it does! Too cute 😍🍫 2mo
LeahBergen Ooo, the books sound so good (and so does that chocolate)! 2mo
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shanaqui

This weekend I need to read six books to catch up to my reading goal. I estimate that finishing some of my ongoing reads and reading a couple of new-to-me graphic novels will take ~8 hours this weekend. This is the first up: I find Ethel Lina White a bit too dramatic, and more so in this one even than in The Wheel Spins, but she does produce a heck of an atmosphere.

BookmarkTavern Good luck! 🍀 2mo
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Aimeesue
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Clearly word has gotten around that I don‘t like the almonds in the Chex mix and will hand them out to passers-by.

AlaMich 😂 3mo
squirrelbrain So cute! 🤣 3mo
Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 3mo
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CatLass007 Sweet pup. What‘s his/her name? 3mo
LeahBergen 😆😆 3mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
Aimeesue @AlaMich @Ruthiella @LeahBergen @dabbe She is absolutely ridiculous. And amuses me to no end. 🤎 3mo
Aimeesue @squirrelbrain Gotta be honest, I picked her out of the adoption lineup because of those eyebrows. 😄 3mo
Aimeesue @CatLass007 Her name is Charlotte, after the famous spider, but we usually call her Charlie. She‘s Some Dog 😉 3mo
CatLass007 @Aimeesue Charlotte is a great name for a dog. So is Charlie. 🐶 3mo
dabbe Charlie, you're friggin' adorable! 🤩😍🤗 3mo
Aimeesue @dabbe It‘s a good thing she is, because she is an extremely curious, high-energy troublemaker who gets into EVERYTHING and tries to eat it. I‘m just thankful that she seems to have decided that books are not delicious 😂 3mo
dabbe @Aimeesue 🤩😍😂 3mo
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Aimeesue
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Hot water bottle, hot toddy, wool blanket, and an epistolary murder mystery - I do love these winter nights 💙

Tamra So nice! 3mo
Aimeesue @Tamra Super cozy! So cozy that i sometimes accidentally drift off to sleep 😄 3mo
Tamra @Aimeesue even better! ☺️ 3mo
shanaqui I did love this one -- the clues are surprisingly fresh, e.g. the one based on the music. I found myself inhaling it! 3mo
Aimeesue @shanaqui That‘s good to hear! I am unexpectedly finding Detective Inspector Hope very, very funny! I love the way he ends all his letters to Julia. 😁 3mo
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Ruthiella
Fell Murder | E.C.R. Lorac
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#Ihavequestions

1. Fell Murder by E. C. R. Lorac was among many excellent mysteries read this year for the #GoldenAgeCrimeClub ,because it introduced me to a new author.
2. I‘m going to switch out one of my #cloakanddaggerchristmas books for Truly Devious by M. Johnson b/c I‘ve heard great things and it came up in my library holds.
3. I really love it when we learn about all the suspects‘ dirty laundry. P. D. James was especially good at this.

Ruthiella Thank you @RaeLovesToRead for tagging me. 😊 4mo
RaeLovesToRead Ooh, I will have to check out these!!! 😁 4mo
batsy Fell Murder was good! 4mo
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Ruthiella @batsy It was! And Hoopla appears to have all of Lorac‘s catalog as ebooks, which makes it so much easier for me to read more. 👍 4mo
CaramelLunacy I really liked Truly Devious! 4mo
Ruthiella @CaramelLunacy Excellent! I really looking forward to it. 😃 4mo
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