March 31, 2025 The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) – Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four is another interesting Sherlock Holmes novel. In his second act of presenting our beloved detective, Conan Doyle fares better. Structure-wise,…
March 31, 2025 Fire in the Thatch (Robert McDonald #27) – E.C.R. Lorac When a blaze destroys Little Thatch and its tenant, Nicholas Vaughn, perishes in the blaze, it is ruled that the cause of death is…
March 31, 2025 Fell Murder (Robert McDonald #24) – E.C.R. Lorac Fell Murder is a grim murder-mystery story penned by Lorac. I say “grim” only relating to the murder-mystery. The story isn’t grim, far from…
March 31, 2025 Checkmate to Murder (Robert McDonald #25) – E.C.R. Lorac Of all the murder mysteries I’ve read of E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder is the best one. It is very cleverly written, with a…
March 31, 2025 Murder in the Mill-Race (Robert McDonald #37) – E.C.R. Lorac When a murder takes place in a village, don’t expect to find the culprit if he is a villager. If he is an outsider,…
November 26, 2021 The Sittaford Mystery – Agatha Christie The Sittaford Mystery is another enjoyable standalone murder mystery by our queen of crime, Agatha Christie. Set in an isolated small village in Dartmoor,…
November 24, 2021 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot 10) – Agatha Christie When I started with this read, I had some difficulty in connecting with it; something I have not experienced with my previous reads of…
November 24, 2021 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot #19) – Agatha Christie I very much enjoyed this particular installment of the Poirot series. The story was for me one of the good ones in the series….
November 24, 2021 The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #13) – Agatha Christie In The ABC Murders, Poirot is challenged by a serial killer, or it seems to be the case. The murderer is so bold that…
November 23, 2021 Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie This is my second time reading of a standalone murder-mystery by Agatha Christie, and I find it to be quite a different experience. I’ve…