Michaela’s Comments (group member since Aug 16, 2019)

Michaela’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

If it´s available in the UK and US, I´d like to nominate The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon. It´s about 3 Euro on the German page for the Kindle edition.

This dragged for a while, and after nearly every character had been killed there weren´t many suspects left. I like locked room mysteries, but here the psychological effect was bigger, and the "Scottish" superstition had its part too.

Jan C wrote: "I'll nominate The Brooklyn Murders by G.D.H. Cole, actually GDH and Margaret Cole, published in 1923 @ 99 cents in US.

Theatrical setting. Sir Vernon Brooklyn, on ..."

I bought this last year, but that seems to have been the last paperback copy. ;) Perhaps a buddy read! :)

I already read this one, so not sure if I´ll re-read it.

I´ll join in too. :)

This book was quite confusing for me too, on the one hand the pendulum thing, on the other the one with the jewellery.

Finally read this, and found it one of the better ones. Also liked Richard and the stories around him, as well as the relationship between Cadfael and Hugh - he even being his confessor in the end. ;)

Thanks Judy, not in Austria of course, but I use Open Library now.

I agree it was written well, and I liked Littlejohn too, but the financial complications and the high number of characters made it a bit difficult to read for me as a non-native English speaker.

What I was thinking of when I read the discussion about the re-writing of Christie´s work was that in all the Golden Age mysteries all the men (seldom women) are smoking, while here one or two of the men tried to stop doing it. (Of course racism and antisemitism aren´t comparable to smoking, but just to show the difficulty of censure)

I haven´t had the time to read it too, but will do so after the Bellairs book.

I liked the setting of this in my home country, with skiing nonetheless, and the post-war time with the Soviets being nearby.
The story was quite well-done, but the ending disappointing, as others said. I was also a bit confused with the story in the beginning.
I wasn´t aware of the duvet problem lol, and all the yodelling is such a cliché I´m sure nobody did, even back then. I also wondered how people could ski so well. it being a sport that was done a lot in my childhood, but was and is still expensive. There seemed to have been slopes to practice, but some even made tours climbing the hills and then skiing down. To manage this, you must be very sportive and ski very well.
Not sure if I´m right, but didn´t Lancing say he never learnt to ski, and then he was the quicker one of the two?

Sorry, missed a few posts... Thanks Judy!

Susan wrote: "Yes, I will definitely add the Berkeley as a buddy. Some of us have wanted to read more of him for a while.

I think I was the only person who couldn't get on with Daughter of Time, but it is defin..."

I´d always heard good things about it, and was rather disappointed.

I read about Rupert Heath´s death, but didn´t know this would be the end of Dean Street Press. So sad.

I love Macdonald too, and liked the setting of the mystery. Like most of you I was a bit confused by all the characters, but on the whole another good mystery by Lorac.

Sounds good, thanks everyone! :)

Thanks for checking! I knew there was a problem. Buddy read sounds good! :)

How about a mystery by Anthony Berkeley? Murder In The Basement f.e. is available on Kindle Unlimited in Austria/Germany, otherwise a few Euros to buy. Wonder if there´s a chance to get it in the UK, US etc?

I finished this today and liked it quite well. Also immediately guessed the culprit of the pearls exchange, but had no idea about the murder. I liked all the girls around Freddy and the other characters.

I´m the same, Judy. Too many reads here and in other groups. :)