#HYH26: Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge

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This year saw the launch of the a Reading Challenge hosted by me. Time to announce the second edition of the Hundred Years Hence challenge for 2026. Things are the same. All you have to do to participate is to read a text that was published for the first time in 1926. Yes, a hundred … Continue reading #HYH26: Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge →

#ClassicsClub: The Beautiful Miss Burroughes by Anne Meredith (1945)

Anthony Gilbert aka Lucy Beatrice Malleson is one of my favourite authors. Besides, Anthony Gilbert, Malleson also wrote under a couple of other pseudonymns. One of them was Anne Meredith, under which she wrote both mainstream and mystery novels. The novel, The Beautiful miss Burroughes can be classified as a mainstream novel with a mystery … Continue reading #ClassicsClub: The Beautiful Miss Burroughes by Anne Meredith (1945) →

#ReadingIrelandMonth26 #ClassicsClub: The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864) by Sheridan Le Fanu

This post contains major SPOILERS, especially for Uncle Silas, so please do not read unless you have read the books. Like #ReadingWales that I finally participated in this year, # ReadingIreland, hosted by 746Books, had long been on my reading radar. This year, I am happy to have read Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas for … Continue reading #ReadingIrelandMonth26 #ClassicsClub: The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864) by Sheridan Le Fanu →

#ReadingWales’26: Put Out the Light by Ethel Lina White (1931)

For years, I have thought of taking part in the Reading Wales event but due to one reason or another, could not do so. This year, however, I have been able to read a mystery by one of my favourite authors who happens to be Welsh, Ethel Lina White. Put Out the Light was White's … Continue reading #ReadingWales’26: Put Out the Light by Ethel Lina White (1931) →

#ClassicsClub: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (1927)

The unnamed narrator is staying at a small guest-house in the French Riviera and gets on well with the other guests of various nationalities. However, one day, a French lady, Madame Henriette, staying there, elopes with a man she had (presumably) known only for a couple of days. She leaves behind a distraught husband and … Continue reading #ClassicsClub: Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig (1927) →

#ClassicsClub #FFB: Sober Truth (ed.) Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell (1930)

The subtitle of Sober Truth, compiled by Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell reads: A Collection of 19th Century Episodes, Fantastic, Grotesque and Mysterious. Indeed, right at the beginning of the preface, Sitwell confesses that the aim of the compilers (was) more propagandist than literary. True to the professed aim, the first chapter had the description … Continue reading #ClassicsClub #FFB: Sober Truth (ed.) Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell (1930) →

#ClassicsClub: The Omnibus of Crime (ed.) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1929)

This mammoth anthology is divided into two main parts with further subdivisions. The first Detection and Mystery starts with Biblical mysteries: The History of Bel (considered to be the first locked-room mystery) where Daniel reveals that the food offered to Bel is actually eaten by the priests. Daniel plays detective again in The History of … Continue reading #ClassicsClub: The Omnibus of Crime (ed.) by Dorothy L. Sayers (1929) →

#ReadIndies: The Report by Jessica Francis Kane (2010)

The day is Wednesday, March 3rd, 1943 and London is on edge. On Monday, England had bombed Germany in a deadly manner and there is a feeling in the air that German retalliation would be even deadlier with some new bombs, even more destructive than the ones used earlier. So when the siren goes off, … Continue reading #ReadIndies: The Report by Jessica Francis Kane (2010) →

#Dream Reprint #Classic Mystery: Mail Train by Kenneth Austin Dobson (1946)

It's the day when we nominate our dream reprint of the year i.e. a mystery that we read last year and feel it ought to be reprinted. For more details on this, please check out this post @ CrossexaminingCrime. My nomination is Mail Train which was first published in 1946 and about which I have … Continue reading #Dream Reprint #Classic Mystery: Mail Train by Kenneth Austin Dobson (1946) →