A young English woman thinks she has witnessed a murder, and impulsively pursues the culprit all the way to South Africa in this standalone tale from the Queen of Mystery.
Tag Archives: 20th century
A Gentleman in Moscow
A man under house arrest in a Moscow hotel following the 1917 Bolsehvik Revolution nonetheless finds plenty to occupy his time, his mind and his heart.
Miss Silver goes to Deeping in ‘The Fingerprint’
Was Jonathan Field murdered because he cut his beloved niece out of his will, or did he possess the key clue to solving a pair of wartime murders?
Poirot toils to solve the 12 ‘Labors of Hercules’
Hercule Poirot sets out to solve one case for each of the 12 labors performed by his namesake of Greek mythology.
Library lovers will revel in the historical fiction of ‘The Lions of Fifth Avenue’
Living inside a library sounds like a dream. But the social tumult of the early 1900s can’t be kept outside the walls forever. What really happened to the Lyons family all those years ago?
A deaf woman lip-reads her way into danger in ‘The Listening Eye’
Miss Silver has her hands full when she is hired by a deaf woman who learns via lip-reading about two men planning a robbery and murder.
Homage or sendup? ‘The Eighth Detective’ is above all a puzzle
A mathematician “proves” that all mystery stories fall into just seven types. But before a publisher can print his work, she must figure out what he’s hiding.
Don’t let the sun go down on you in small-town Maine
Return with me to a more innocent time, when the only bloodsuckers you had to worry about were actual vampires.
‘Neither Here Nor There’ is neither terrible nor great
Bill Bryson made his name with witty travelogues that spanned the world. But does the shtick ever get old?
Uncovering family secrets in seaside Ireland
Her mother’s death leads Elizabeth on a journey to discover her father’s true identity and why her mother refused to talk about her life before Elizabeth was born.
An American Bluestocking 