Well, it took seven-and-a-half years and over one thousand posts, but it’s finally happened: I have read a book about which I can find nothing to say.
Continue reading#1042: Minor Felonies – The Good Turn (2022) by Sharna Jackson
Juvenile Mysteries
#1041: “You have to make some noise if you want to be heard.” – Sisters Are Doin’ it for Themselves in Enola Holmes (2020) [Scr. Jack Thorne; Dir. Harry Bradbeer]
#1039: Minor Felonies – The Case of the Missing Marquess (2006) by Nancy Springer
I think I’ve been dimly aware of Nancy Springer’s series centred on Enola Holmes, much younger sister of the more famous Sherlock and Mycroft, for a number of years, but it was only the recent(ish) filming of the first book which brought the series more firmly into my orbit.
Continue reading#1036: Minor Felonies – This Book Kills (2023) by Ravena Guron
Another exclusive boarding school, another murderer on the loose — if mysteries for younger readers are anything to go by, put your kids in the local comp to keep them safe.
Continue reading#1033: Minor Felonies – Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum (2023) by Alasdair Beckett-King [ill. Claire Powell]
#1020: It Gets Worse Here Every Day in The Mystery of the Nervous Lion (1971) by Nick West
#1008: Minor Felonies – Sabotage on the Solar Express (2022) by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman [ill. Elisa Paganelli]
If the genre’s Golden Age had one commendable attribute, it’s that there was no pressure to outdo previous entries in a series by going bigger, louder, or more preposterous with each successive entry.
Continue reading#1005: Minor Felonies – Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: Peril at Owl Park (2020) by Marthe Jocelyn
This second entry in Marthe Jocelyn’s Aggie Morton series — featuring juvenile sleuths inspired by both Agatha Christie and her arguably most famous creation Hercule Poirot — contains much of the charm that made the series opener stand out, but also falls down in ways that leave me a little underwhelmed.
Continue reading#1002: Minor Felonies – The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage (1954) by Enid Blyton
#1000: A Locked Room Library – One Hundred Recommended Books
In the back of my mind when I started The Invisible Event was the idea that exactly half of what I’d post about would feature impossible crimes, locked room mysteries, and/or miracle problems — and although this proportion started an irreversible slide after the first 500 or so posts, the impossible crime remains my first love.
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