Sandy’s Comments (group member since Dec 14, 2015)

Sandy’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

This may be old news to those in the know but the 9th Slough House is due "soon", Clown Town

Marcus wrote: "No Sandy. Where I can find the list of these novels?"

Her alternate name is Mary Westmacott and she also wrote under Agatha Christie Mallowan. Excellent memoir of her archaeology experience under the Mallowan name.

In the US, Unnatural Death is $3, or upcoming buddy read.

Marcus wrote: "Finished The Body in the Library for our group’s challenge. That was a rereading. Also reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Besides the Agatha’s challenge, I’m reading her other novels and co..."

You can't go wrong with Agatha. Are you including her romances written under a different name?

I am listening to In at the Death. It was an Audible freebie that has expired but is still on my device so I am 'rushing' through it before Audible catches on.

I am reading / listening to Dead in the Frame, latest in a very good series that has much the same set up as Nero Wolfe.

Jan C wrote: "I finished Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac yesterday.

I would move on to Crook o'Lune except that I can't find it. Amazon tells me that I bought..."

I believe 'inanimate' objects can hide when they want and reappear at their own time.

Susan in NC wrote: "Sorry if this is the wrong place to post or it’s already posted, but a GR friend told me Kerry Greenwood has died (Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman mystery series). Here is the Guardian obit:

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Sad news but I'm glad you told us. I read the Phryne series.

In the US: is $2

In the US, Have His Carcase, a future Wimsey, is $1.

Oops. Hope it is more successful than some of the GA style we've read recently.

Jackie wrote: "I've just started listening to the audio version of A Royal Affair - the first one in the series was light-weight but enjoyable, but I didn't feel a strong urge to continue so We Sh..."

I read the first and didn't continue so would like to know how the second compares.

I will nominate a book that is free in the US: Murder on Tyneside. Written in 1916 and mixed reviews from one star to five.

Judy wrote: "I'd like to nominate Postscript to Poison , the first book by Dorothy Bowers in her Inspector Dan Pardoe series, as I've bee..."

I can't find it on kindle in the US. The GR link brings me to an edition in Italian. Specific search only mentions paper versions.

Wonderful book for setting and characters, but very glad all the details of the crimes were explained. The embezzled school funds would have been a very tidy sum after fifty years and 'stealing' your own sheep was profitable. I felt sorry for 'young' Tibbs and the housekeeper who were merely caught up in the crimes.

I think this book has a great opening scene, with Dolly half asleep and then having to convince her husband.

I read the 'Never Too Late' book as 'a midlife crime thriller'.

Susan wrote: "I will nominate Juggernaut: A Golden Age Mystery by Alice Campbell

Up and up crept the weight. Its touch was..."

US: on kindle for $4

Thinking back to our discussion of Murder at the Vicarage I was amused when Miss Marple knocked on the window of the vicarage. That was followed by a lovely scene of Griselda playing with her son and being caught at it by a non-children-loving parishioner.

Finished and another vote for Dolly.