This is a collection Miss Marple and Poirot stories repackaged and republished in 1961. There’s about a split in terms of how many of each you get. What’s great about the audiobook version is that a lot of the files are clearly pulled and recollected from other produced audiobooks, so you get a variety of different actors reading them. I think this or something similar to this would be a really interesting usage of this kind of material to see who does different things with […]
It was a silly show, all capering women and monkey-faced men.
This is an early British spy thriller (1915) from the writer John Buchan, who would go to write a couple dozen other novels and apparently become Governor-General of Canada in the mid 1930s, which is odd. Even odder is that this is happening at the same time Alfred Hitchcock is making a film version of this novel starring Robert Donat, a big star at the time. Weird. Ok so the novel is an engineer who becomes embroiled in a German plot. To do what?! General […]
Best read with a pint of IPA and a Rolling Stones record on the turntable.
I’ll start this review by saying I am a massive fan of Ian Rankin, especially his John Rebus series of books. So basically, he could write up Rebus’ shopping list, and I’d probably give it a 5 Star review. Just so you know. There have been at least 20 books about John Rebus and his adventures in the Edinburgh police department. And this was the first one that wasn’t really about John Rebus that much. Yes, he was in it, and yes, he played a […]
Ugh
I wanted to like this book. I haven’t seen the movie, but reviews of the film made it sound campy and fun. I’m usually too wimpy to watch thrillers but I do enjoy reading them, so I thought I’d try the book instead. I have never encountered a protagonist I found more off-putting than Stephanie. I know that the author was intending this to some extent, but the other narrative voices are not much better. I certainly don’t think that an unlikable narrator is such […]