Poll

Hm, I don't have

Settling Scores
Bats In the Belfry

so won't choose those, but this looks pretty good.

Foreign Bodies:
Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue – but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume.

I'm going for that one!

They all look good, and for a change I haven't already read any of them!

And that cover array is just beautiful. They do such an amazing job with the book covers in this series! I couldn't pick a favorite.

I already read two of them and got the London Mysteries at home, so voted for those. A pity the paperback editions aren´t easily available from the UK nowadays.

Christine PNW wrote: "And that cover array is just beautiful. They do such an amazing job with the book covers in this series! I couldn't pick a favorite."

The covers are absolutely first rate. And I love the little thumbnail images on the back covers that show the original posters from which the covers are taken. (In the actual BLCC editions, not, unfortunately, also the Poisoned Pen editions.)

I feel like these are all great choices, we cannot go wrong regardless of which one wins.

Tara wrote: "I feel like these are all great choices, we cannot go wrong regardless of which one wins."

I agree!

It also looks like we have returned to our theme of very tight races!

I'm changing my vote. I'm reading two books on Ellen Wilkinson at the moment and am really keen to re-read The Division Bell Mystery as I would like to see whether some of the episodes I have read about are included (be it in disguise) in her novel.
I really enjoyed this book on my first read and a re-read is inevitable anyway.

Read Calamity in Kent a couple of years ago, and was not impressed. My review boiled down to: "Scotland Yard Inspector decides his tabloid journalist friend, Jimmy, is the best choice to investigate a locked-room murder, and tells Jimmy to go for it."

I voted for Bats in the Belfry because I think I have that one.

Btw, I love that we have an image of the BL reading room as our picture for this poll! (Even if it's very small ...)

Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) wrote: "Btw, I love that we have an image of the BL reading room as our picture for this poll! (Even if it's very small ...)"

Yes! It makes me smile every time I land on this page.

Getting close! I hope Bats in the Belfry doesn't win as it's a bit pricey. eep!

Actually t's on sale for Kindle edition £2.99 -equivalent to 4.19 USD- (down from £8.99), so lets see how the poll goes.