Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Golden Age Women Writers: Josephine Tey and Dorothy L. Sayers
Josephine Tey is best known for The Daughter of Time, which remains highly regarded. A temporarily invalided Scotland Yard detective sets his wits to solving the poignant murders of the little princes in the tower, way back in . . . 1483. A very cold case. In The New Yorker, Sara Polsky’s “The Detective Novel…
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Agatha Christie and the Character of the Victim
I’ve been on a Christie binge, and yet once more. I’m re-reading Evil Under the Sun while alternating 4.50 to Paddington and Dead Man’s Folly as evening viewing. Interspersed with The Magpie Murders, which is terrific, but moves along at a very stately pace. There’s a Japanese adaptation of 4.50 to Paddington that I’d love…
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2025 Mystery Preview
A very short post, mostly filled with praise. I’ve been reading a number of forthcoming novels; thank you, NetGalley, for the ARCs. A few favourites that I will be sharing with friends: Belinda Bauer’s The Impossible Thing, which is a nigh impossible thing to describe without giving away too much. So I will fall back…
