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#497: Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la Même Chose dans L’onzieme Petit Negre (1977) de Jacquemard-Sénécal [trans. Gordon Latta 1979]

February 9, 2019February 8, 2019 / JJ / 18 Comments

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For a book set against the backdrop of a play based on one of Agatha Christie’s most famous works, and featuring a detective the front flap tells us is “unparalleled even by Hercule Poirot”, there’s more than a passing whiff of Ngaio Marsh about this one.

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#413: The Wants – Five Books on My TBR I Know Nothing About

July 17, 2018July 19, 2025 / JJ / 41 Comments

Books Question Mark

If you’re anything like me, well, how do you manage?  But also you probably have a book-buying compulsion which so-called “specialists” refuse to diagnose as a medical condition despite the prospect of going two weeks without adding to your TBR being sufficient to make you rush out and do something regrettable like snatching up a Gladys Mitchell omnibus.

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