Mysteries, I love them!
Mysteries have been my passion for 40 years! Sure, I read Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton as a girl, and Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot as a teen, but then college and grad school intervened. It wasn’t till I was an adult and discovered Dorothy L. Sayers that I was hooked. Sayers’s essays guided me to earlier classics like Trent’s Last Case; suggestions from others led me to Margery Allingham and Josephine Tey, then to Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin – all of whom I still enjoy. My own mysteries owe a lot to those writers, as well as to Gillian Roberts’s Amanda Pepper series.
On this blog, I’ll be talking about mysteries that I’ve read and enjoyed. I hope you’ll join me and make it a conversation.
Fran Cobb said,
July 16, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Carole, in the mystery series we take with you in Simsbury, we read Peter Robinson’s “In a Dry Season” about a crime detected after a reservoir was drastically lowered in a drought. It was great. With the reservoir in mind (but a full reservoir in this case), Donald Westlake’s “Drowned Hopes” has to be one of his funniest. the every reliable (or unreliable, as the case may be) Dortmunder gang is at it again, trying to retrieve a fortune from a bank now under water. Their various attempts are so comical and yet with just the hint that they might work, that you can go right along with them. However, do be careful about reading this book on public transportation; people may look at you strangely when you laugh out loud. I did and they did.