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[Lady Clementina]

Pamela wrote: "Lady Clementina wrote: "This series (two so far) looks interesting too- has anyone read these?"

I think the cover would have put me off, but the blurb actually sounds quite interesting"

I actually saw this only after reading about the second in the papers-again not a particularly nice cover but I liked the sound of it


Another one I am keen to read is

[Susan]

Ooh, The Widows of Malabar Hill looks good, Lady. Another addition to our Buddy Reads lists?

I actually want to make a list of all the series we are currently running in our Buddy Reads threads. I just need some time and I will try to bring some organisation to it, so we are alternating series properly and also adding in new books to keep things fresh and allow new members to join in.

[Lady Clementina]

Susan wrote: "Ooh, The Widows of Malabar Hill looks good, Lady. Another addition to our Buddy Reads lists?

I actually want to make a list of all t..."

Doesn't it? By the way, it's also been published as A Murder on Malabar Hill. Yes' it would be good as a buddy read but after a couple of months at least since I have a very busy month at work.

[Susan]

Yes, we are pretty 'booked up' for a while, anyway. I am just exploring ideas for the end of the year, beginning of the next. Good to see our Buddy Reads so popular.

So far, we have new additions as:

The Widows of Malabar Hill
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Black Roses

These will run alongside our more traditional GA Buddy Reads - Campion et al.

[Jill]

Let's hope by then we have forgotten this terrible heatwave, because at the moment a cold dreary day in London sounds pretty good!

[Susan]

It's a bit cooler today, Jill :)

[Lady Clementina]

Susan wrote: "It's a bit cooler today, Jill :)"

So are we after almost incessant rain over the past couple of days. But that also meant overcast skies and no lunar eclipse (for us to see) yesterday.

[Susan]

No, it was too cloudy here in London too, Lady. We had storms last night and couldn't really see anything...

[Jill]

Susan wrote: "It's a bit cooler today, Jill :)"

But creeping up again during the week if the forecasters are to be believed, which they usually aren't.

[Susan]

Once I go on holiday it will rain, don't worry, Jill :)

[Lady Clementina]

Jill wrote: "Susan wrote: "It's a bit cooler today, Jill :)"

But creeping up again during the week if the forecasters are to be believed, which they usually aren't."

True-though more recently I find forecasts more likely to turn out right than not :)

[Lady Clementina]

Susan wrote: "No, it was too cloudy here in London too, Lady. We had storms last night and couldn't really see anything..."

So we weren't the only ones...

[Sandy]

Susan wrote: "Once I go on holiday it will rain, don't worry, Jill :)"

Self-sacrifice for the public good!?

[Carolien]

Susan wrote: "Yes, we are pretty 'booked up' for a while, anyway. I am just exploring ideas for the end of the year, beginning of the next. Good to see our Buddy Reads so popular.

So far, we have new additions..."

I'll be happy to join for all of these. I have them all.

[Susan]

Excellent, Carolien.

Sandy, no matter what the weather is like beforehand, it always seems to rain when I go away!

[Susan]

OK, I have been investigating our Buddy Read threads. We currently have five series running as buddy reads:

Campion (Margery Allingham)
Angela Marchmont (Clara Benson)
Inspector Appleby (Michael Innes)
Nigel Strangeways (Nicholas Blake)
Bobby Owen (E.R. Punshon)

This is an updated list of Buddy Reads which are coming up:

Buddy Reads coming up next are:

July/August: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

July/August: The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson

August/Sept: Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes.

Sept/October: Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson.
Sweet Danger: Margery Allingham

October/November: Malice in Wonderland by Nicholas Blake
Death Among the Sunbathers: E R Punshon

November/December: The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake
The Treasure at Poldarrow Point by Clara Benson

December/January: An English Murder by Cecil Hare

January/February: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

February/March: Black Roses by Jane Thynne (currently 99p on kindle)
Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake

March/April: The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Stop Press by Michael Innes

If you want to nominate any other stand alone novels, or another series, you feel we should follow, then please do so.

[Susan]

Rosina has suggested this on the buddy read thread too:

I have recently started re-reading the Flaxborough novels of Colin Watson, and I find them just as much fun as they were forty years ago.

Would anyone else be interested in slowly meandering through the series, starting with Coffin, Scarcely Used?

I will add it in later.

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Malice in malmo for me.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Susan wrote: "OK, I have been investigating our Buddy Read threads. We currently have five series running as buddy reads:"

and Poirot

[Susan]

Updated Buddy Read List:

Updated List:

Buddy Reads coming up next are:

July/August: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

July/August: The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson

August/Sept: Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes.

Sept/October: Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson.
Sweet Danger: Margery Allingham

October/November: Malice in Wonderland by Nicholas Blake
Death Among the Sunbathers: E R Punshon

November/December: The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake
The Treasure at Poldarrow Point by Clara Benson

December/January: An English Murder by Cecil Hare
Coffin Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

January/February: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

February/March: Black Roses by Jane Thynne (currently 99p on kindle)
Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake

March/April: The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Stop Press by Michael Innes

[Carolien]

Carol wrote: "Malice in malmo for me."

Been on my list for ages. Will be interested.

I'll join Colin Watson as well.

Anybody up for PD James in order?

[Susan]

Meet Me in Malmo is, I think, the first in the series? I wasn't sure whether Carol was saying she was reading that, or suggesting it? We haven't had many Scandinavian novels (if any?) so it would be interesting.

I love P D James and would certainly like to read them in order, so definitely a possible. In fact, I think I suggested them as a first challenge, until we decided to go with Sayers?

[Susan]

Carolien, do you want me to add the first P D James to the Buddy List? That would be Cover Her Face

[Carolien]

Susan wrote: "Carolien, do you want me to add the first P D James to the Buddy List? That would be Cover Her Face "

Yes, please. I'd love that.

[Susan]

Buddy Reads coming up next are:

July/August: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

July/August: The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson

August/Sept: Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes.

Sept/October: Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson.
Sweet Danger: Margery Allingham

October/November: Malice in Wonderland by Nicholas Blake
Death Among the Sunbathers: E R Punshon

November/December: The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake
The Treasure at Poldarrow Point by Clara Benson

December/January: An English Murder by Cecil Hare
Coffin Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

January/February: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham

February/March: Black Roses by Jane Thynne (currently 99p on kindle)
Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake

March/April: The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Stop Press by Michael Innes

April/May: Cover Her Face by P D. James

[Susan]

We are so far ahead now that I am calling a temporary halt to adding new books to the Buddy Read list for a couple of months :)

Thank for all the great suggestions and it is fantastic that we have some new series starting, for new members to start with.

[Jill]

Finished Lament for a Maker at last. and now reading The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney So far liking it a lot.

[Susan]

I finished Lament for a Maker yesterday too (rather pleasantly, sitting by the river in Oxford, while my children were punting with their cousins). Not sure I am really getting any further with Michael Innes though.... Lament was a struggle!

[Elinor]

Been a long time :) I've bought quite a few books during my trip in London, Cambridge and Oxford, a few of them being mysteries. But haven't been reading a lot of mysteries lately, just Death in a Tenured Position (I'm reading this series completly out of order and it's not my fault) which I did quite enjoy but didn't love. However I should be starting Last Bus to Woodstock today !

[Teri-K]

Susan wrote: "I finished Lament for a Maker yesterday too (rather pleasantly, sitting by the river in Oxford, while my children were punting with their cousins). Not sure I am really getting any further with Mic..."

I finally gave up on Innes. I only liked one of four that I read. Struggle is a good way to describe how I felt, too.

[Gary]

Just finished Cop Hater by Ed McBain I used the paperback cover since it is better than the current Kindle cover. A really fine start to the extremely long running 87th Precinct series.

Of course now the question is what next, after I finish reading some non-mystery novels.

[Louise]

Just started reading Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers, which is quite enjoyable.

[Susan]

I just started The Killings At Badger's Drift and was delighted to see it is dedicated to Christianna Brand

[Judy]

I've started Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes - I'm enjoying it so far, but see what you mean about all the Scottish dialect in the first section, Susan.

I've read a lot of Scott and Stevenson, so I know some of the words. Others, I'm not worrying about too much if they don't seem vital - but, for those I do need to decipher, I'm finding this Dictionary of the Scots Language site useful:
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/

[Lisa]

Reading Ann Swinfen Oxford Medieval Mysteries... on my 5th one & really enjoying them!

[Susan]

Judy, I really struggled with the Scottish dialect! I love Scottish accents by the way, they sound lovely. I was defeated on paper and I suspect this will not be an easy choice for Audible!

[Sandy]

I am listening to a Nero Wolfe, The Silent Speaker and reading an historical mystery, Shadows in Bronze, second in the Falco series, set in 80 AD. I enjoyed the first book and it left the romantic entanglement hanging.

The Michael Innes is next up but I'm dreading the dialect.

[Jughead]

Just finished Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie. And haven't really started anything else. Can someone recommend something that is not just a detective story but has some good thriller feel to it as well! Thanks in advance!

[Lisa]

Belaji, Anything by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding or Ethel Lina White are very good golden age mysteries that are also thrillers

[Jughead]

Thanks @Lisa. I'll definitely check it out.

[Judy]

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding is a new name on me, thanks Lisa!

Some of the Patricia Wentworth and Margery Allingham books have a thriller element to them, including Sweet Danger by Allingham, coming up as a buddy read in September/October - these are on the lighter thriller side.

[Jughead]

Some of the Patricia Wentworth and Margery Allingham books have a thriller element to them, including Sweet Danger by Allingham, coming ..."
Will add those too to my tbr list. Thanks Judy!

[Tara]

I am on my second book in Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael series, One Corpse Too Many . I really enjoyed the first one, and I am looking forward to reading them all in sequence. Despite having a monk as the detective and main character, he is world weary and wise, and almost provides an outsider's approachable view to the monastery than a type a general audience couldn't connect with.
I also remember really liking the TV series with Derek Jacobi. I should look into whether or not those are available for streaming somewhere.

[Judy]

Tara, you’ve reminded me that I’ve been meaning to read Cadfael ever since this group started - I must get round to it soon! I remember enjoying the series,

[Tara]

Judy wrote: "Tara, you’ve reminded me that I’ve been meaning to read Cadfael ever since this group started - I must get round to it soon! I remember enjoying the series,"

Always too many books, too little time Judy! I have found that the challenges with one book in the series per month is a great way to go, so I am trying to incorporate that style in my own personal reading. I don't think it would make for a bad buddy read though.

[Lady Clementina]

Judy wrote: "Tara, you’ve reminded me that I’ve been meaning to read Cadfael ever since this group started - I must get round to it soon! I remember enjoying the series,"

Do- I'm really enjoying them.

[Doris]

I'm resuming where I left off on the Mary Russell / Sherlock Holmes series and reading Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King. I'm greatly annoyed by Russell's amnesia and hope she makes a speedy recovery.

[Judy]

Our latest buddy read, Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes, is now open for discussion.

Come on over and join in! This is the link for the general thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Alan M]

I have just finished The Paddington Mystery - written in 1925, and just reprinted by Collins Crime Club editions in UK this year. The first appearance of Professor Lancelot Priestley, who went on to appear in something like 70 novels by John Rhode, a member of the Detection Club and prolific author under several pseudonyms.

I really enjoyed it, though obviously we read these books at a long time distance so some of the references and let's just say stereotypes can be a bit dated. Interesting that Priestley, as an academic and mathematician, is more interested in the logic of facts and deduction - working out the puzzles - than actual justice. I want to go off and read some more (but maybe not all 70!!) to see how his character and the stories develop.

[Lorraine]

Alan, I'm going to check out The Paddington Mystery. Love finding golden agers I haven't read. Thanks