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Nova Scotia's history is more diverse and older than I knew and I was aware of a lot of the basics. I needed another reinvigorated dose of history and geographical terrain for my writing and suddenly received it, better than I imagined when I selected this book. My background in the Oak Island mystery has strengthened and is advancing well too.

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I bought this new years ago and I am thrilled to be reading it. There are people who know about this fantastic Nova Scotian-Canadian enigma because of Rick's & Marty Lagina's television show. I love that show. I'm glad Canada is becoming known for special things about us. However I'm making note that I knew about Oak Island's mystery a long time ago! Actually, this was my subject for a school speech I delivered!

Most of this was boring, repetitive in terms of needless examples of how "small" and "tidy" Hercule is. Worse, how intelligent he was to the point of conceit in that description and mimimizing of John, a veteran. These short stories of Agatha's have me disliking someone I liked in two preceding proper novels. I am nearly finished them! Also, thankfully, these latest stories are at least interesting and enjoyable.

This is so boring, I scarcely continue each night. That has partly to do with being tired enough to sleep quickly and seldom liking short stories. However, there is no eagerness to continue Hercule's know-it-all-ism and John Hasting's (his name is "John", not Hastings either!) wishing-to-catch-a-break. I hope Agatha stopped calling him "the little man". No one wants that and the repitition is annoying above that.

I am disliking this. The advertisement that folks can't recognize clues like Hercule is bragged inaccurately. These read like typical novels so far, in that we can merely read how they end. I retain the details, which is what clue-recognizing is. We can't guess an author's invented backgrounds. I hate how John Hastings is portrayed as not knowing either but Hercule conjures the outlandish, made-up story details.

I put off my forays with Agatha Christie for a couple of years when it is my intention to saovur at least one per year, because it didn't seem this one would be thrilling. The first short story isn't and actually, is demeaning to John Hastings as if he is not permitted to be right or insightful. By the way, his name is not "Poirot"! Oh, that ancient "last name" appellation for men bugs me. His name is "HERCULE"!

Don't ask me how but on four hour's sleep, I resumed reading this and have jogged to 326 pages. Merely 100 left. I would continue all day but one needs to bathe and dress and celebrate new year's eve with one's spouse and cats. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017, EVERYONE! May Conan be home with us and goodness knows, we will be a happy family from now on. 2018 will be great! Sincerely, Carolyn.

This is very enjoyable. It might become my favourite since "Still Life". Louise Penny definitely knows this summer environment of hers better than she depicted a realistically Canadian winter or tentatively emerging spring. Animals and science were incorrect. This however: all her sounds, sights, smells, and observations are accurate and familiar. The reading is a pleasure without needing the mystery to appear.

I am thrilled to have this from my darling spouse, for Christmas! It is out of print on Amazon and internet stores put used copies too high, except one place I was about to try. I held off the order until Christmas day, knowing Ron had bought me one book. He only shops in person and books that aren't a staple or a new release are scarce these days. I put it on my list in case it reprints well in Canada. It does!

My thorough, immense pleasure, Madame Augusta Huiell Seaman! Such an extraordinarily compelling, non-crime, original, wholly mysterious mystery.... hailing from 1919 to boot! The manners and Canadian / American history, recent to publishing time, are educational, special features.

I am back with a personal favourite. I abhor the "cozy" dilluted style of mystery generally. However I know who the genuinely excellent authoresses are, real writers with a vocabulary that brushes-up mine. And when my first sitting, in bed, scurries to 121 pages; I know I am reading my go-to comfortable fare. Greats like Nancy Atherton receive the "cozy" label in lightness of their content only: not in quality.

There is no stopping this wonderful book now! I love the highly natural events at working on a clue, not knowing its meaning but trying ideas. Some might not work but from them, spring answers. Some might be fortuitously gained but not arbitrarily or irrelevantly. These girls are searching in the right places with good reason. They have set me to such a fevor pitch that I'm crazy to see how everything comes out!

This got very interesting and that natural thing about regularly falling asleep is the only delay in enjoying the rest of this novel. It could do without heaping of personal trivia and history, particularly about the protagonist whom I don't like much. But I thought I would love his research assistant, Elena Coyle and I do. She has a much more important role than it seemed, perhaps conceled and delayed on purpose.

This is fascinating and original and I love looking at the manners of one-hundred years ago in time. This is the please about books that depicted their own modern time that have become old to us, versus historical fiction doing its best to fabricate antiquity. I love great mysteries that age naturally and become historical on their own. I am as keen to learn the secret on Slipper Point island as the story's girls!