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The Wintringham Mystery | Anthony Berkeley

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Unique premise - gentleman to footman to house guest to detective. I enjoyed the lighthearted banter, but for some reason this book just didn‘t fully click with me. Still recommended. 😊

Thank you for giving it to me @Gissy !

mabell @Librarybelle #1927 for #192025 3w

Librarybelle I have this on my to read list! 3w

Gissy Adding this one then to my wish list😃👌❤️ 3w

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CarolynM Definitely unique! Sounds good 🙂 3w

mabell @Librarybelle I put it on my list from Littens‘ suggestions 😄 3w

mabell @Gissy I love the cover! 😍 3w

mabell @CarolynM I can‘t really put my finger on it, but it wasn‘t 100% my thing. But overall I enjoyed it 😊 3w

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Jen2

The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears | Anthony Berkeley, A. Monmouth Platts

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Pretty good.

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TheKidUpstairs

The Wintringham Mystery | Anthony Berkeley

Thank you so much @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego for this awesome #LCS #LittleChristmasSwap package! I'm excited for this classic locked room mystery (don't you just love the Classic British Crime series covers 😍), and some great candy choices! We all know Reese's shapes are the best Reese's, right? 😉

Thanks for organizing @bookish_wookish 🎉

bookish_wookish Ooo that looks like a good book!! 🎄 2mo

LeahBergen I have this book waiting on my shelves! 👍 2mo

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego H💚 H❤️ H❄️ and Happy New Year. 2mo

Sparklemn The shapes are the very best! 2mo

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OutsmartYourShelf

Blackstone Fell | Martin Edwards

My pick for favourite book of September for #12Booksof2024

Two men disappear from inside a locked gatehouse years apart never to be seen or heard from again. Part of the 'Rachel Savernake' series this is a great mystery.

@Andrew65

Andrew65 This looks good. My wife enjoys his books but I have not read any yet. 2mo

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OutsmartYourShelf

Blackstone Fell | Martin Edwards

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Journalist Nell Fagan's first meeting with Rachel Savernake didn't go as planned, but Nell knows that Rachel can't resist a puzzle so she inveigles mutual friend, Jacob Flint, to act as an intermediary. Nell has started investigating at Blackstone Fell, a Yorkshire village with an ancient tower & lodge where two men disappeared centuries apart. In 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse & 300 years later, it happened again.

OutsmartYourShelf Do the disappearances have anything to do with the imposing sanatorium which has seen its fair share of deaths? Are the strange near misses a coincidence or is someone really trying to kill Nell Fagan to keep their secrets?

This series continues to improve for me. I was immediately drawn by the premise of strange disappearances & managed to pretty much guess what had happened. 6mo

OutsmartYourShelf I also worked out the murderer so was feeling rather smug after finishing it. It's set in the 1930s & there is a nice namecheck to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple book 'Murder at the Vicarage'. Rachel Savernake is a bit of a 'Mary Sue' in many respects but after this third book, I am growing a little more accustomed to her. 4.5🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6731097153
Read 4th-6th Sept 2024

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OutsmartYourShelf #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES 6mo

DieAReader 🥳Awesome 5mo

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mabell

The Wintringham Mystery | Anthony Berkeley

What a lovely package @Gissy !! I love everything! You always find such neat treasures. The candlesticks are so unique! I can‘t wait to see them alight with tapers. The bookmarks and page tabs are perfect! And the turron - yum, yum, yum!
Thank you for including each one of the kids - so cute and thoughtful! As you can see, Ted approves of his gift!
And I am so very excited for every one of the books, and they all have such pretty covers! 😍

mabell I‘ve never seen that cover of Legends and Lattes - very cool!
Also, your wrapping was lovely! The ornaments are already on the tree 😊 Thank you so much!

(Not pictured is the glass pumpkin - it didn‘t survive the trip, though you had packed it so well!) 1y

Gissy I‘m so glad you liked everything🤗So bad that the candle didn‘t make it. I thought you could use the vase later. It was so pretty. I am looking forward to try those books. They sound interesting☺️You should see me, buying books for other persons and deciding which one I will buy for me... as a treat😂an excuse but I always include one book for me. That edition of Legends and Latte is from UK. I have both editions because they are pretty⬇️ 1y

Gissy I didn‘t enjoy the first book as much as I wanted to but I have the second book already. It seems is better. I have the US edition but I think I will buy the UK edition just to have both copies as the first boo.k...remember I‘m a book collector no a book hoarder😜I hope that outfit size is the right one for Sophie but I left the ticket on so you could change it if it is too small. Glad that Ted liked his toy🐶🤎⬇️ 1y

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Gissy I bought a candlestick for me because I think it can be refilled with each season flowers.

Looking forward for your books reviews🤗 1y

mabell @Gissy It is so fun buying books for others and “happening” to find some for ourselves too 😂 I didn‘t know you read Legends and Lattes! But I just saw you posted your review! Everyone seems to love it, so I thought it would be nice to try. I‘m sorry you didn‘t enjoy it that much! The outfit size will work just fine - she‘ll be moving on to that one next! ❤️ ⬇️ 1y

mabell @Gissy That‘s a neat idea to update the candlestick with the season! It‘s so pretty, though, I‘ll be afraid to take out the flowers inside! I‘m so looking forward to my books too! Thank you so much for everything! ❤️😊 1y

Gissy @mabell No, I didn‘t like the book as much as I wanted to but I read it for the same reason it was so hyped. But I‘m in love with that cover. I saw a couple of reviews about the sequel and it seems it is better. I will try it. I have it already. I like to try books even if the rating is not good because sometimes I‘m surprise that I like it but also happen for hyped book that I don‘t like. Try it, you never know. It has been well accepted in Litsy 1y

mabell @Gissy I know what you mean about trying books regardless of the rating. You never know what you‘ll think about it yourself! My taste often differs from the mainstream; it tends to be that I don‘t enjoy books others seem to. Then also I read books where I think - why doesn‘t everyone love this?? 😄 I‘m looking forward to seeing what it‘s like! I didn‘t even know there was a sequel until a local bookstore posted about the author‘s event here. 1y

Gissy @mabell An author‘s event? That‘s nice. I have attended some of that type of activity and sometimes what the author explains can help to understand better the book. Amazing! I hope you can go. But remember, you will be in a bookstore...risky....you can end the visit with more books in your hands😂 1y

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Susanita

The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope | Cornelius Warren Grafton

I‘m closing in on #52mysteries with this entry for Kentucky. Blue states are completed, green states are to be read with the books identified, and the gold state is a book from my shelf. The other two are DC and Puerto Rico, which are on different maps!

This was an interesting book. A little convoluted, definitely dated, but with good bones of a story. Not much sense of place. The author is now known (if at all) for being Sue Grafton‘s father.

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EadieB

The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge | Martin Edwards

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#ThePuzzleofBlackstoneLodge #MartinEdwards #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2023

1930: Nell Fagan is looking for a second chance at a career in investigative journalism and the call of Blackstone Fell's sanatorium is irresistible. In 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and 300 years later, it happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, Rachel Savernake.

Andrew65, TheSpineView, TheAromaofBooks

EadieB Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell in Yorkshire, with its eerie moor and sinister tower. With help from her friend Jacob Flint – who's determined to expose a fraudulent clairvoyant – Rachel will risk her life to bring an end to the disappearances at Blackstone Fell where people go in, but never come out. This is the third book in the Rachel Savernake series. 2y

EadieB I hadn't read the first 2 books but this one can definitely act as a standalone. The book had a lot of characters to keep track of and Rachel reveals the solutions to what turn out to be more than one mystery. The addition of a ‘cluefinder‘ at the end of the book is a feature during the so-called ‘Golden Age‘ of detective fiction. There are twists that kept me glued to the book until the very end. 2y

TheSpineView Fantastic! 2y

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EadieB @TheSpineView Thanks! 2y

Andrew65 Excellent review. 2y

EadieB @Andrew65 Thanks! 2y

MonicaLoves2Read That sounds like an interesting book. 2y

EadieB @Monica5 yes it was very interesting! 2y

TheAromaofBooks Ooo I love this cover!! 2y

EadieB @TheAromaofBooks Very nice cover! 2y

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quietjenn

The Wintringham Mystery | Anthony Berkeley

I'm in the mood for a mystery (and working through my "from the library" stack).

batsy I liked this! Hope you enjoy it. 2y

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Litsi

The Wintringham Mystery | Anthony Berkeley

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At an old estate being headed by a cranky rich woman, a woman goes missing from a closed room with 11 people in it. How? Cupboards, sofas, priest holes and ice houses all play a part. The amateur detective is a bankrupt, bon vivant who becomes involved because he has had to take a job at the estate as a footman. This is a pleasing tangle of theft and romance and stock manipulation. See if you can solve what Agatha Christie could not.

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