Saint Errant
Leslie Charteris

MacFadden-Bartell Books, 1966

From the back cover: It's a date with danger. Join the Saint in these gay, exciting adventures as he turns the tables on the police-and his companions in crime-and winds up with a fortune in his pocket and a pretty girl in his arms.
  
  











  



  
Rendezvous in Black (20th Century Rediscoveries)10 reviews
Cornell Woolrich

Modern Library, 2004

Titanic and soul shattering

+ The Hitchcock of the Written Word
+ "Now you know what it feels like. So how do you like it?"
+ Yes, a masterpiece!
  
  











  



  
Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot)37 reviews
Agatha Christie

Berkley, 1991

WILL SOMEONE LET THE WOMAN SPEAK?

+ For Judith Butler Fans
+ Not Her Best, But Still Very Good
+ The past is the father of the present
  
  











  



  
We'll Always Have Parrots (Meg Lanslow Mysteries)13 reviews
Donna Andrews

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005

Fun reading

+ A grey saves the day
+ A Great Romp through Cons and Cult TV Fans
+ Four and a half stars, actually -- very funny in parts
  
  











  



  
Key Lime Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery With Recipes) (Hannah Swensen Mystery With Recipes)38 reviews
Joanne Fluke

Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2008

Mystery lover

+ More fun than a County fair!
+ Better than the last entry

I really like Joanne Fluke, but this book is one of the best yet. I actually made the peach bread recipie from it.
  
  











  



  
The Case of the Missing Bronte (Crime, Penguin)3 reviews
Robert Barnard

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1994

Barnard Hits A Triple on This One

+ Funny

Brilliant, witty, verbal caricaturist Robert Barnard can't hit a homerun every time he comes up to bat. He's my favorite British mystery writer; I've read all forty of his gems, but this one does not rank among his best. Whenever certain crime novelists introduce thugs or gangsters into their ...
  
  











  



  
Murder Is Binding36 reviews
Lorna Barrett

Berkley, 2008

Loved it!

+ Books, Bookstores, New England and Murder
+ New Cozy Series, Shows Promise

This was a new author for me and I was not disappointed. It was well written and fun to read. I look forward to other books from her.
  
  











  



  
Death Watch (An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery)3 reviews
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Avon Books (Mm), 1994

why isn't she better known?

+ Good Old English Cozy
+ Death Watch

considering some of the truly awful mysteries i have suffered at least partially through, i cannot understand why harrod-eagles' series isn't better known and why it goes out of print with such blinding speed. this entry in the series is as impressively well written as any reader could wish--the ...
  
  











  



  
Mystery Mile (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)6 reviews
Margery Allingham

Felony & Mayhem, 2006

Campion's First Starring Role

+ excellent plot
+ Campion steps out of the shadows
+ Campion emerges as the leading man
+ "Deserving cases preferred"
  
  











  



  
Bird of Prey
Victor Canning

Berkley, 1963
  
  











  



  
Secret Agent Girl: A Murder A-Go-Go Mystery2 reviews
Rosemary Martin

Signet, 2007

Unexpectedly weak third entry in the 1960s-oriented Murder-A-Go-Go series

To date, the pseudonymous Rosemary Martin has written three books about Bebe Bennet, a young woman who has left her home, family and roots back in Virginia in order to find fulfillment--and a suitable husband--in New York's Swinging Sixties. The series is ostensibly no more than entertaining ...
  
  











  



  
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't ...13 reviews
Horace McCoy, Kenneth Fearing, ...

Library of America, 1997

Thank God for the 1930's and 1940's/

+ Crime Back When it Took Talent to Commit It
+ Six Degrees of Noir
+ Splendid Read
+ The Dark Underbelly of the American Dream
  
  











  



  
High Marks for Murder: A Bellehaven House Mystery4 reviews
Rebecca Kent

Berkley, 2008

very atmospheric paranormal amateur sleuth historical

+ High Marks
+ English cozy mystery
+ high marks for murder
  
  











  



  
The Wind Blows Death2 reviews
Cyril Hare

Perennial, 1991

Literate, Intelligent Mystery - An Overlooked Gem

+ Light and entertaining

The Wind Blows Death is an overlooked gem, a jewel of a mystery, one that is continuously suspenseful, and yet literate and intelligent. Cyril Hare himself is not well known today, but fortunately in recent years many of his mysteries have been reissued by Dover, Harper-Perennial, and most recently ...
  
  











  



  
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and ...195 reviews
Laurie R. King

Picador, 2007

Interesting entry into the Holmes legend

+ Great fun for Sherlock Holmes fans and independent women
+ A delightful read
+ My favorite book!!!
+ Delightful
  
  











  



  
One Across, Two Down4 reviews
Ruth Rendell

Vintage, 2001

Wonderful tale of greed gone out of control

+ Early suspense from a master storyteller

I knew from Rendell's past books that this would end in chaos. There some tense moments, but Stanley ends up getting .... It moves right along and is hard to put down. It's a good story about people waiting for someone to die so they can inherit money and how easily it can go wrong. Vera, ...
  
  











  



  
Death By Design (Scrapbooking Mystery Books)5 reviews
Laura Childs

Berkley Trade, 2006

Love scrapbooking? You're gonna love this series

+ So entertaining!!!

Laura Childs, author of a terrific Tea Cozy series, offers scrapbookers a cozy just for us. Her characters, and yes New Orleans is a character in her books, jump to life. The mysteries are fun and light, but what makes her books are the characters. By then end of her first book you wish Carmela ...
  
  











  



  
From London Far1 review
Michael Innes

House of Stratus, 2001

Comedy crossed with Buchan

Among Innes's large and highly uneven output, this most gleeful and exuberant "thriller" stands out as one of his clearest triumphs. It is the diverting story of an innocent (middle-aged scholar named Meredith) abroad, plunged into murder (one of which he commits, the other he instigates) and ...
  
  











  



  
Divine Inspiration: A Homer Kelly Mystery4 reviews
Jane Langton

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1994

Great Characters + Great Plot = Great Book

+ A Divine Read
+ Cozy at it's finest
+ Cozy at it's finest
  
  











  



  
The Sunday Pigeon Murders1 review
Craig Rice

Pocket, 1947

A light mystery, full of humor and coincidences

Craig Rice's The Sunday Pigeon Murders is the first novel which features Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak (there's also The Thursday Turkey Murders and The April Robin Murders, the latter finished by Ed McBain after Rice's death in 1957). It's an odd book, sort of a cross between the screwball ...