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Frances Brody
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Frances is a fan of Golden Age mysteries.
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October 2010
Good weekend at CrimeFest. My panel was Friday morning, after which I mingled, listened and chatted. Did you know: Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' was turned down by four publishers? He blagged his way into a fifth publisher's office and sold the story.
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Dying In the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)
   3.36 avg rating — 66 ratings
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A Medal For Murder (Kate Shackleton, #2)
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2010
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Murder In The Afternoon (Kate Shackleton, #3)
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2011
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A Woman Unknown
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2012
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Gone to Ground
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Frances Brody said:
"Poor Caroline was the wittiest book of 1931. It's still delightful, inventive, funny and uplifting. It begins with Caroline's Yorkshire cousins back from her funeral, which they combined with a shopping trip. Betty and Dorothy are highly amused by Ca...more
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"Thanks, Caroline. 'A Medal for Murder' will be published in New York February 2013, so it's a bit of a wait!
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"I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on."
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Zora Neale Hurston
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| This is the first book by Golden Age mystery author Gladys Mitchell that I have read. Her detective is Mrs Lestrange Bradley, not the most endearing character in crime fiction but amusing and with an oblique take on the world. She certainly makes an...more | |
"Aoife, your review made me laugh. I am currently reading The Moonstone on my Kindle (slowly, inbetween other stories).
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This is a great puzzle. A great story it is not, or to be fair: it was not for me. For that I had too much problems with certain aspects, first of all the narrators. There are lots. The book consits of eight narratives (and some additional police-...
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Josh Lanyon's book always read really quickly, that is of course mainly because they are really engaging and everything but also because Lanyon has a tendency for 'small' end-of-chapter cliffhangers. Not the really annoying type, so many (mystery)...
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| It's ages since I read a saga, and I thoroughly enjoyed this page-turner. It has the essential ingredients: plucky heroine, Jeannie, separated from her childhood sweetheart, Ethan, when she marries the wrong man and bears up under enormous hardship....more | |
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| This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to try and understand the state we are in, what tricks the banksters pulled, and what might happen next. It's accessible, informative, laugh out loud funny, and fair: "most bankers are responsible people"...more | |
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