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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571370977|title=The Lock-Up|author=Martin Edwards John Banville|rating=4|genre=Crime (editorHistorical)|titlesummary=Murder at It's six months since the Manor: Country House Mysteries dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (British Library Crime Classicsif somewhat uneasily)with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529337968|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=IIt'm not big s July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this bookthe day that the NHS is born. Firstly, itShe's broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses ll be working for Dr Deuchar and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a man whose knowledge of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and he's done us proud, not only with his selection, but her job will be to help patients with the halfthose non-page biographies of the writers, medical problems which precede each storyaffect their health. There's just enough there The hardest part of the job will be to allow you to place persuade people that the author services she offers really are free and that they don't have to direct you do anything to other works if you're temptedqualify for them. It's an elegant selection, from Some of the well known and the less well known, all set in and around the country houseproblems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A J MacKenzie057136358X|title= The Body on the DoorstepApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=On the marshes Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of Kent himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the late eighteenth century, Reverend Hardcastle discovers a dying man on thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his doorstep. Narrowly escaping a bullet himselfjob, something which occurred to him when he is entrusted was in Burma with the dying manarmy 's last words which leave him questioning 'where he got the chance to kill a lot of the mystery behind this anonymous manlittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''s death. With smugglers rife along the Kent coast, it seems as though it He was spending a simple falling out amongst thieves, but lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the Reverend believes the answer to this crime lies deeper. Assisted by the brilliant Mrs Chaytor they set off to solve the mystery – but purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with smugglers lurking all through bubbles in the county and ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the French threatening to invade, there are unsuspected dangers around every cornerbenefits of taking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761137</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Age Mystery of TreacheryHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=In We meet Solon in Pergamon in the winter of 1946 Duncan Forrester, formerly second century of the Special Operations Executive, was back at his Oxford college as a junior fellow in Ancient History. Hecommon era and he'd lost s the woman he loved to physician on duty at the Gestapo and was now feeling guilty about munus - the fact that he was besotted with games put on for the wife amusement of his best friend, a fellow academicthe populace. To confuse matters further the woman in question, Margaret Clark, had been having an affair with another lecturer, David Lyall and it seemed likely that she would leave her husband for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297808</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E S Thomson|title= Beloved Poison|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=St SaviorThe remuneration isn's is a crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambition, jealousy and hatred. Six tiny coffins, each containing dried flowers and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside t high but the decaying chapel. A silent outsider, with secrets of her own to hide, is determined to discover work gives the truth. And in doctor a trail that leads from the bloody worlds feeling of dissecting table virtue and operating theatre, through hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to the squalor of Newgate Prison and its gallows, Jem Flockhart faces a ruthless adversarylive. As the destruction of St Savior It's looms, quite a spectacle: the dead magistri are unearthed, the living are forced into impossible decisions – charge hands and murder is when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the price for secrets lions' manes to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= make them look more impressive. The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes sagitarii are on the case once more. When a group of well-to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy archers and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon the explorers beastiarii are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve the mystery if he is condemned criminals who are going to catch fight for their lives with the culpritwild animals. But there Today, it's more than one brute on the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>crocodiles.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle1529337925|title=Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle AdventuresMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=There can be few people who havenIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't heard inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of Sherlock Holmes, whether work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the guise publisher of a magazine and had been told that the original stories or subsequent film and television adaptations including man running the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch Punch and Martin Freeman, who are pictured on Judy show in the dust cover local park had used copies of two of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. It Sandy Bissett's this most recent series which has widened request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the fan base man about infringement of the stories copyright - and Dandy and many of them won't have copies of the original stories Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to hand. My own copy is a 1959 reprint of the 1929 edition which had four stories in one volume, but this current volume has nineteen stories in do the one booksame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery AllinghamB08LKT7HSR|title=Sweet DangerMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=''Sweet Danger'' is In December 1933 the fifth book remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in Margery Allingham's ''Campion'' series, which has our eponymous gentleman-adventurer on a quest to find the rightful heir cellar of a suddenly-valuable principality on the Adriatic Sea known as AvernaGlass Bottle Public House. The British Government want proof Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of ownership Elowed and thishis half-brother, of courseDenzil Hammett, involves overcoming several obstacleswhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, including a curious riddle, collecting various items and keeping one step ahead of the enemywho disappeared in June 1916 was over. The quest soon becomes a race against time, when Now she's determined that the villains, led by Machiavellian schemer Brett Savanake, start man responsible for her murder will be brought to close in on our heroesjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Margery AllinghamStephen Clarke|title= Mystery MileThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating= 54|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= On This is a transatlantic linerspoof spy story, an American points out Crowdy Lobbett and predicts that he will have been murdered within a fortnightisn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Indeed he places a bet on But it. It seems like features a safe bet: retired Judge Lobbett has been man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the subject ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of four near misses so far: four attempts things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on his life that have misfired a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and killed someone close to him. His children have persuaded him to take the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a trip desperate mission to England unearth traitors in an attempt the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep him somewhat safer, for a while at least.up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099474697</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Dowling0349423083|title=AscensionDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=Kate Shackleton's nieceruns her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, Harrietably assisted by Jim Sykes, was recovering from diphtheria who lives in Woodhouse and Kate decided to take her away to the country for a fortnight to help her recuperatehousekeeper, Mrs Sugden. HerShe's friend - and would-be suitor - Dr Lucian Simonson had inherited a house in Langcliffe from his aunt Freda and Kate was pleased to accept the offer been approached by William Lofthouse of the property for a couple of weeksBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. There was a hidden message that she might also see if sheSomething is going wrong with his business and he'd like to make her residence there more permanent, but Kate was in no hurry to make her mind up about remarriage. Her private investigations suited her well and it wasn't long before she was approached to look into a crime which had troubled Lucianit discreetly: he's Aunt Freda. The old lady had witnessed a murder, but her evidence was dismissed hoping that his nephew and she went to her grave believing that the wrong right-hand man had gone to the gallows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406561</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery (Hew Cullan Mystery 5)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It has been three years since Hew was banished , James Lofthouse, will be back from Scotland and manoeuvred into working for Elizabeth I's spymaster, Walsingham. His loyalties remain with the Scottish Queen Mary but he must hide them as well as he can lest he becomes a victim of the conspiracy fever cutting through England and keeping the hangman busytrip to Germany before long. There's also another fever cutting through Scotland – the plague, providing even more reason for Hew James went to worry about see what the wellbeing of his sister, brother in law continental brewers were doing and nephewwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. If he could but go home heWilliam is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''d have a surprise for them. When he gets there, theretoo's a surprise for him in the form of a death prophesy picture, followed by a murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973120</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Ross|title=Swords Around The Throne (Twilight of Empire)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus' time in Britain much or is over going to bring back a German bride but not his propensity for being on the wrong side of danger. Due to an adventure on the journey he comes to 'd like the notice of Emperor Constantine, and is promoted business to be ship-shape before his elite bodyguard – the swords around the throne. The multiple emperor model that has evolved to govern the Empire is shaky to say the least, riven by plots, conspiracies and worsenephew returns. Therefore Castus' new job is neither safe nor easy but it's not something he can refuse… unfortunately!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Chadwick0241433568|title=Liberty BazaarEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=London, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wife. SheIt's left him, taking their daughter to live 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with her cousin Bunny at his house in a very uncousinly waySpain. Yet her distance doesnIt't prevent her discussing the goings on s unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft and seem lunch: he's going to be taking have a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worried. He calls upon Constable Horton rest and then he wants to investigate… this is the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged talk to enter one of the more exclusive madhousesMegan and Henry about something serious. Under the circumstances Only it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasnnever gets that far: when Bunny doesn't forgiven emerge after his siesta his superior for itguests find that he's been murdered. However, as How can that have happened? There's no one else in the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by a murder case with a rising body counthouse, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce in importance. The important thing for each so one of them has become survivalmust be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vaughn Entwhistle1473682401|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime Turning Tide (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Davison|title= Murder on the MinneapolisCatriona McPherson|rating= 54

|summary=Governess Flora Maguire is sailing from New York to England on the SS Minneapolis, entrusted Those who were with us at the task end of returning her teenage charge, Eddie back home [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to boarding schoolMallory Dunnoch. Unfortunately for Flora, the ship They're now married and Mallory is first-class only, so she spends having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the first night aboard stowed away in charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her cabinbrother, acutely aware of Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her lower social status. Her intention detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to stay out of look into a problem at the limelight is thwarted Cramond ferry whenit was offered to them twice before, during a solitary stroll along but suddenly the deck, she discovers a dead body at the bottom possibility of being out of the companionway. The ship staff hastily conclude that this is a tragic accident, but Flora has other ideas and decides to conduct her own investigationhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible. Is there a murderer aboard ship? And if so, is Flora making herself a prime target by poking her nose into other people's affairs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anthony QuinnSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= Curtain CallThe Honjin Murders|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= LondonTo many readers, 1936the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. Nina Land is a West End actress For those who need more, and she here is spending her afternoon the extra background – we're in rural Japan in a hotel room with a married manthe 1930s. When she spots the face The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the man whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the newspapers celebrations have named “The Tie-Pin Killer”gone ahead as planned, she faces only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a huge dilemma – will she report the man to missing parts of his fingers being in the policeneighbourhood, and risk her career and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the reputation time of her lover? Or will she stay quietthe crime, and risk this case has a lot of the lives of innocent girls?peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593238</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=MRC KasasianB07XLM3SM6|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=While Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the best personal detective conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the known Victorian world (Dolphin Hotel in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on a case, his ward March is left Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her own devicessister who was ill. As luck would have it, one of those devices is an invitation She was reluctant to meet a previously unknown relativeleave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. March visits Saturn Villa She's always coped with a sense the mix of curiosity holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forget's done every job in the hotel. LetAnd she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's hope she knows a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Wilson0349423067|title=Wallace of The Body on the Secret ServiceTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=This is From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the third in forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the re-issued series authored by boxes discovered the former soldierbody of a man, spy stripped naked and Professor with no means of English Literature, without whom it is said, there'd have been no Bond, no Smiley, no Bourneidentification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sara Sheridan1472127110|title= British Bulldog |rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= As a decade, the fifties doesn't attract much attention from authors and scriptwriters - it's dull and grey in comparison with the vivid horrors of war and the colourful extravagance of the sixties. But World War II left Indian Summer: a long shadow, and this, the fourth instalment in this excellent series, takes us deep into past life of ex-intelligence agent Mirabelle Bevan, and the sorrow and the blighted love she has so desperately fought to hide from public gaze soon becomes hopelessly entangled with present deaths and danger. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973252</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMystery|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas HawkinsSara Sheridan|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A few months after we left Tom in the 1720s we return to find him living in sin and love with Kitty. Or it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bit. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James Fleet, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him in the ways of being a gentleman. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy and a brush with the country's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuse, no matter how hard he tries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=M J Carter|title=The Infidel Stain|rating=4

|summary= LondonLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, 1841. Newly returned from Indiaour favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery find life back not always for the better. When she first settled in Victorian England difficult to settle intoBrighton she was alone, having left a disconnected country travelled by pony rudderless and trapsecretly grieving for Jack, and returned to one in the grip of railway manialover who died before he could leave his wife. When a series of murders occurAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, all connected made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to the presslet a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, Avery and Blake find themselves back even found consolation in action. But with connections between the murdered and those seeking revolution, it is arms of a race against time to find the killer before he strikes againrather charming policeman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl1912374439|title=The Last BookaneerCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)

|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a decent living in 19th century London. However his business acquaintance Davenport book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has a plan to aid his prosperity. Hot literary property Robert Louis Stevenson is dying on Upoloremain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a Samoan islandyoung woman sees her father arrested, having just written his final potential masterpiece. Therefore all Davenport has and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to do is her best friend to steal ithelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, bringing it back to publishing glory and self-aggrandisementthe late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. The only problems are In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that the enabling legal loophole is about to close female victim, even though she and he's not the only one lived together with his eye on that particular prize. And Fergins? He's going tootheir baby as a young family, whether except he wants was thought by all to or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556198</amazonuk>have died in the War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Thynne 1786075431|title=A War of FlowersMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Zofia. A War socially climbing wife of Flowers is the third of Jane Thynnea medical professor, she's thoroughly researched intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and beautifully written novels of Nazi Berlin from the female point of viewkeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Reading them Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is an immersive experience; nearing the joy city due to lack of the book is hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in locationher charitable home. I say ''was'', descriptionfor she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, commentdead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. The action Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does not rush but Zofia feel the ending expertly pulls plot strings together and has need to make a wow factor that will leave the reader eager name for more. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131904</amazonuk>herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Simmons1786893762|title=The Fifth Heart|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On a rainy night Things in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about to end it all. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do the same. Instead of jumping, Holmes drags James off for a drink and decides that they will go to America to solve a 17-year-old murder case. The supposed victim, socialite Clover Adams, is believed to have committed suicide but that doesn't deter Sherlock. He's off, Henry James is going with him and that's that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJars|author=Jayne Anne Phillips|title=Quiet DellJess Kidd|rating=4.5

|summary= Chicago – 1931A child has gone missing. Asta Eicher The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a widowprevious case, with three children and where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a crippling sense of lonelinessprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. When Harry Powers asks her to marry himThis detective is a woman, she and the setting is delighted – Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the new family soon leave in order to travel to West Virginiadownright hideous. They are never seen again. Back And before you're more than a couple of pages in Chicago, Emily Thornhill you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is one of the few women journalists than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in Chicagohalf-mourning, with a widow's cap and is sent to investigate stout, shiny boots, but the disappearancetobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, trying what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to establish what happened do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the familyby. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. As she becomes ever deeper involved with And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, Emily begins to discover things she never expected – both about and it's clear he has a soft spot for the casedetermined young woman. If he really exists, and herselfthat is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Kerr0349414327|title=The Lady from Zagreb|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The Lady from Zagreb begins and ends in 1956. Series detective Bernie Gunther is enduring a 'subtle kind A Snapshot of punishment' as he watches and re-watches beautiful Dahlia Dresner, a woman he has loved and lost. This is the tenth of the novels that began with the publication of the Berlin Noir trilogy Murder (in the early 1990sKate Shackleton Mysteries) and within a few pages the action has catapulted back to the summer of 1942 and the heartland location, Nazi Berlin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782065814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barbara Cleverly|title=Enter Pale DeathFrances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=''Death by Misadventure''.' This is the official verdict as to the cause of death of Lady Lavinia Truelove, trampled to death by Even detectives need a notoriously ill-tempered horsebreak and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she foolishly tried to approach in its stallneeds. The horse panicked and reacted badly, resulting in a gruesome and bloody attack, witnessed by two boys from When the village. Most people would dismiss the event as a tragic accidentlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, but detective Joe Sandilands suspects that this could be cold-blooded murder. Could his judgement be clouded by the fact that he has a very personal axe Kate was keen to grind with take the 'grieving' widower, who has been showing increasing attentiveness opportunity to Dorcas, the girl he plans to marry?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leslie Charteris visit Haworth and John Telfer (narrator)|title=Enter the Saint|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties there's a temptation to believe that the books might not be, well, top drawerStanbury, but that would be a mistake. The first of ''The Saint'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one and this collection of stories is dated 1930. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not least because the subtleties deeds of the slightly world-weary man of the world, all-knowing about the evils to which men (and women) Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can sink, but they're all there. Admittedly the Saint is more boisterous become a museum and less subtle than he her parents will become - but that speaks more about be there for the later works than this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Loser's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozatevent. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victoryWhat could be better than seeing her family, he is made two offers – one from witnessing a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in momentous event and having the sport, who seems opportunity to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind take photographs of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as setting for ''the PakistaniWuthering Heights'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. ? Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latterNothing could go wrong. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, and a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to Or could it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>?