A shorter mystery from The Book of Clues (1984) from the excellent John Sladek, and pay attention to the picture this week…
Continue reading#1090: Little Fictions – The Book of Clues (1984) by John Sladek: ‘Three-Minute Story’
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#1087: Little Fictions – The Book of Clues (1984) by John Sladek: ‘The Case of the Curious Codicil’
Another week, another mini-mystery from the pen of one of the genre’s great lost names.
Continue reading#1084: Little Fictions – The Book of Clues (1984) by John Sladek: ‘An Arab Death’
I’ve said before that detective fiction lost a fine proponent of the form when John Sladek, after two novels and a handful of stories, abandoned the genre in favour of SF. Except, well, he didn’t quite abandon it altogether…
Continue reading#1081: Minor Felonies – The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022) by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman [ill. Elisa Paganelli]
I’ve been in denial about this moment for a long time. M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman have been clear for a while now that their excellent Adventures on Trains series had an endgame in mind and…this is it. With The Arctic Railway Assassin (2022) we reach the (ahem) end of the line.
Continue reading#1078: Minor Felonies – Trapped! (2018) by James Ponti
A final outing for James Ponti’s very entertaining trilogy in which two junior sleuths help the FBI solve baffling cases, it is perhaps unsurprising that Trapped! (2018) follows the age-old tradition of having this case cut Very Close To Home.
Continue reading#1075: Minor Felonies – Lion Down (2019) by Stuart Gibbs
Lion Down (2019) is the fifth book in Stuart Gibbs’ FunJungle series and, with previous entry Panda-Monium (2017) being one of the best juvenile mysteries I’ve yet read in this Minor Felonies undertaking, expectations were high.
Continue reading#1072: Minor Felonies – Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden (2021) by Marthe Jocelyn
The Seaside Corpse (2022), Martha Jocelyn’s fourth novel to feature the Agatha Christie-inspired 13 year-old sleuth Aggie Morton, recently won the Edgar for Best Juvenile Mystery, so let’s jump back into the series where I’ve reached to date: book 3, The Dead Man in the Garden (2021).
Continue reading#1069: Little Fictions – ‘The Engineer’s Thumb’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The World’s Greatest Detective sure does very little in the way of detecting sometimes, doesn’t he?
Continue reading#1066: Little Fictions – ‘The Speckled Band’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I think ‘The Speckled Band’ (1892) is perhaps the most fun Arthur Conan Doyle ever had writing about his most famous creation.
Continue reading#1063: Little Fictions – ‘The Blue Carbuncle’ (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A fixture of Christmas crime story anthologies throughout history; but is it any good?
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