Love golden age, traditional & historical mysteries. Reviewer, reader. History mystery column in Deadly Pleasures.
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Robin Agnew
“Libraries are like a net, there to catch those of us in danger of falling through the cracks.”
― Freya Sampson, The Last Chance Library
(Artist: Piero Schirinzi)
Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1950.
Happy Birthday to the goddess of crime fiction, Sara Paretsky, 1947, Ames, Iowa. The creator of female private eye V.I. Warshawski, she helped revolutionize the genre by turning it on its head and foregrounding a woman as the main character.
Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1931.
Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1953. UK title: After the Funeral.
Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1944.
“People like frequent laughter," answered Father Brown, "but I don't think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown
Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1943.
Happy Birthday Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 1893, Oxford,UK. The groundbreaking Sayers created the classic character of Lord Peter Wimsey, the crime solving peer. She was one of the Four Queens of Crime in the golden age of detctive fiction. A century later,Wimsey and his adventures are still beloved.
“Your cat just got cat hair on me.”
“It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
