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History of Science and Science Fiction (2023 Victorian Reading Project)
This was the third theme on my Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project list, but I got a little out of order with my reading in the end, and a little sidetracked with finishing it in the year I’d planned! As with the other themes, there was a mix of fiction and non-fiction in this list, but…
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Alex Michaelides — The Fury (2024)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I read this in January but it took me a little while to get…
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Agatha Christie — The Hallowe’en Party (1969)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review As mentioned in my recent ECR Lorac review, I have generally not read much…
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Stacking the Shelves – 2025 Week 6
I continue to fail in my efforts to keep my To Be Read list down to a reasonable limit this year, not least because I set up an ambitious Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project that included about as many books as I was expecting to read! I am not even 50% of the way through that…
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Janice Hallett — The Examiner (2024)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I read this at the very tail end of 2024, when struck down with…
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Stacking the Shelves – 2025 Week 5
I have been trying to keep my To Be Read list down to a reasonable limit this year, not least because I set up an ambitious Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project that included about as many books as I was expecting to read! I am not even 50% of the way through that list (but that’s…
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ECR Lorac — Post After Post-Mortem (1936)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review As someone who for a long time has read only nineteenth-century and “new” (1990s-onwards)…
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Eleni Kyriacou — The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou (2023)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I read this at the start of 2024 but am trying to catch up…
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Alice McIlroy — The Glass Woman (2024)
Preamble If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Or you can take a look at my short story collection of cosy mysteries featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies; order now! Review I read this at the start of 2024 but am trying to catch up…
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Leonora Nattrass – The Bells of Westminster (2024)
Read my short story collection featuring Victorian “lady detective” Meinir Davies now (in paperback, hardback, or on Kindle)! If you’re interested in reading my academic work about detective and crime fiction (free PDFs available), check it out here. Review (4.5 out of 5) Set in the religious community around Westminster Abbey, this great read has a…
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