The Tuesday Night Bloggers
#474: Minor Felonies – The Last Chance Hotel (2018) by Nicki Thornton
Welcome to the Last Chance Hotel, standing alone in seemingly endless woodland, where a coterie of oddballs are about to descend and usher in an impossible murder over dinner.
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#471: Minor Felonies – Jolly Foul Play (2016) by Robin Stevens
The fourth entry in Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike series finds us returning to a very different Deepdean School for Girls to the one we last saw at the end of the opening of this series. And this time around Christian, who blogs over at Mysteries, Short and Sweet when he’s not translating Carter Dickson novels into Swedish, has stepped in to help me tackle this one as a fellow fan of Robin Stevens’ work.
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#468: Minor Felonies – The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (1944) by Enid Blyton
There’s clearly a Sophomore Clause for youthful detection collectives: Must Involve a Missing Animal. The Three Investigators sought a stuttering parrot, and now the Five Find-Outers are herding cats having solved a case of arson first time out.
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#465: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘The High House’ (1948) by Hake Talbot
Under the nom de plume Hake Talbot, the magician and author Henning Nelms published two novels and two short stories. Of the novels, The Hangman’s Handyman (1942) is generally overshadowed by the admittedly superior Rim of the Pit (1944); of the short stories, we tend to hear very little.
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#462: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘Too Many Motives’ (1930) by James Ronald
I’ve been able, in only the briefest of online searches, to find little on the British pulp writer James Ronald, but the small amount of his material I have read thus far has been very enjoyable.
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#459: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ (1956) by Boileau-Narcejac [trans. James Kirkup 1959]
My first experience of the French crime/suspense duo Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac was the recent Pushkin Press reissue of She Who Was No More (1952, tr. 2015) and…well, I didn’t love it. But Adey lists this novella and so back on the horse we clamber.
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#456: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘Solved by Inspection’ (1931) by Ronald Knox
Earlier this year, John Pugmire’s Locked Room International imprint answered the prayers of every impossible crime fan the world over by reprinting the genre reference bible Locked Room Murders (2nd ed., 1991) by Robert Adey, liberally revised by Mystery Scene co-publisher Brian Skupin.
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#453: The Criminous Alphabet – A is for…Audience
The Invisible Event 