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“Somehow, the idea of the devil in a motor boat sounds too utterly...
The Secret of High Eldersham, by Miles Burton After finishing my #TBR10 (which I’ll post separately about) I found myself intensely busy at work and in need of lighter reading. Guy Savage had recently...
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It was how the place made you feel, like it was alive and biding its time...
Death is a Welcome Guest, by Louise Welsh Death is a Welcome Guest is the second in Louise Welsh’s Plague Times trilogy. It’s not so much a sequel to her first in the sequence, A Lovely Way to Burn, as...
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Being a man was too difficult.
She Who Was No More, by Boileau-Narcejac and translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury A year or so back I saw Clouzot’s superb Les Diaboliques, a film which beats Hitchcock at his own game. What I didn’t know...
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The dead man had been killed by a shot from a revolver. So what was the...
The Murdered Banker, by Augusto De Angelis and translated by Jill Foulston Piazza San Fedele was a bituminous lake of fog penetrated only by the rosy haloes of arched street lamps. So far there seem to...
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Reality outwaits us all.
Bird in a Cage, by Frédéric Dard and translated by David Bellos Albert has been away from home for six years. He returns just before Christmas to an empty apartment unchanged since his mother’s death...
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Doing wrong for its own sake made him happy.
The Hotel of the Three Roses, by Augusto de Angelis and translated by Jill Foulston I recently read De Angelis’ Death of a Banker which I liked but didn’t love. It was a first novel, which showed in...
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A lover of baroque music, classical literature, and women who are still...
Three-Card Monte, by Marco Malvaldi and translated by Howard Curtis I read Marco Malvaldi’s Game for Five while feeling a bit under the weather during Christmas 2015. Fast forward a year and I was...
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The mucus shimmered as the sun rose higher.
The Mad and the Bad, by Jean-Patrick Manchette and translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith The Mad and the Bad is my fourth Manchette. I’ve now read every one that I’m aware of having been translated into...
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A recent reading miscellany (mostly SF)
A recent reading miscellany I’ve read several books recently during a period where I was busy at work, then ill, and then on holiday. For a mix of reasons I don’t plan to fully review them. Some...
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only someone who knew how to read the murderer’s soul could unmask them.
The Mystery of the Three Orchids, by Augusto De Angelis and translated by Jill Foulston When it came down to it he was sentimental, and he had an instinctive respect for the dead, for scoundrels who’d...
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