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 🎉
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.
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pickJournalist 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.
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! 😍
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.
pick#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.
I'm in the mood for a mystery (and working through my "from the library" stack).
pickAt 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.
pickA serviceable Golden Age mystery. It rattled along nicely and I was entertained. A good library borrow.
