The interesting thing about Mary Roberts Rinehart's mysteries, to me, is that everyone has so many secrets. Don't get me wrong, all mysteries rely on secrets: what people know but are not saying. In Christie's Crooked House, almost everyone in the family seems to know or suspect who the murderer is: they want it to …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Well, finally, you are thinking: an author I have actually heard of. I read Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton when they were originally writing. But then I got tired of them. And, when my apartment flooded back in the early 90s, and I lost a good portion of my book collection, they were amongst those …
Continue reading 365 Books: Unnatural Death by Patricia Cornwell
Westerners tend to think of history as linear, like a stock market chart. History is progressing, things are constantly getting better and, if things start to get worse, it’s the start of a regression that will only get worse and worse. It’s at time like this that I like to read books about the past …
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