#437: Murder on Safari (1938) by Elspeth Huxley
Lightning could strike twice, right? I went into Max Murray’s The Voice of the Corpse (1948) last week knowing nothing about it and that turned out rather well, and no less authorities than Xavier...
View Article#460: Dead Men Don’t Ski (1959) by Patricia Moyes
It’s fitting that Noah’s review of Dead Men Don’t Ski (1959), is what first brought the book to my attention, because the novel exemplifies for me a strata of fiction that I only got thinking about on...
View Article#467: Seven—And Death Makes Eight – The Game’s Afloat in The Last of Sheila...
I’ve not reviewed a movie here on The Invisible Event before, but then The Last of Sheila (1973) is not your average movie. I first became aware of it at the Bodies from the Library conference in...
View Article#472: The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922) by Freeman Wills Crofts
Back in 2015, before I’d ever opened any of Freeman Wills Crofts’ works, Puzzle Doctor reviewed The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922) at his place and ended by saying “I could go on, but I’ll just keep writing...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 5: GAD in the Time of COVID-19 [w’ Brad @...
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its 348th week, Brad from AhSweetMysteryBlog is here with some salutary advice. See, back in March, Brad made a great case for the approaching crisis and enforced...
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#709: The African Poison Murders, a.k.a. Death of an Aryan (1939) by Elspeth...
Elspeth Huxley’s Murder on Safari (1938) used its uncommon milieu and the author’s own experiences of life in Kenya as a young girl to enrich what might have otherwise been a ham-handed attempt to...
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#754: Mining Mount TBR – The King and the Corpse (1949) by Max Murray
This month of Tuesday posts picking through the more neglected corners of my TBR has now become the GAD equivalent of a bride’s wedding outfit: something dull, something shitty, something loopy, and...
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#781: Minor Felonies – Murder on the Safari Star (2021) by M.G. Leonard & Sam...
A few years ago, I got the Night Riviera sleeper train from London Paddington to Penzance. When we reached our destination, after a good night’s sleep, I was disappointed to discover that no-one had...
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#833: Murder on the Way! (1935) by Theodore Roscoe
Approximately five years ago, powered by a combination of ego and ignorance, I set about trying get Murder on the Way! (1935) by Theodore Roscoe reprinted, based on its reputation as a cracker and its...
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#854: Minor Felonies – The Highland Falcon Thief (2020) by M.G. Leonard and...
The only frustration I feel towards the Adventures on Trains series by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman is that I didn’t discover it sooner. Because, see, then I’d be four books deep into this wonderful,...
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#865: There Is Nothing Either Good or Bad, But Thinking Makes It So –...
If you’ve met me, firstly I apologise, and secondly it’ll come as no surprise that I have a tendency to ruminate on that which many others pass over without so much as a backward glance. Previously...
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In GAD We Trust – Episode 28: Writing Mysteries for Younger Readers [w’ M.G....
There is a Golden Age of detective fiction going on at the very moment, but because most of what’s being written is aimed at 8-to-12 year-olds, it gets overlooked by, like, grown-ups. I’m trying to...
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#878: Minor Felonies – Kidnap on the California Comet (2020) by M.G. Leonard...
Following my recent podcast chat with M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, and the nomination of this very title for an Edgar award, let’s catch up with the Adventures on Trains series. “It’s unlikely we’ll...
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#906: Vultures in the Sky (1935) by Todd Downing
Of the multitudinous ways that Vultures in the Sky (1935) by Todd Downing is boring, perhaps the most irritating is the incessant padding between plot points that drags out discoveries or turn the...
View Article#1112: Fatal Venture, a.k.a. Tragedy in the Hollow (1939) by Freeman Wills...
Fatal Venture (1939) represents, by my count, the ninth time in twenty-three books that Freeman Wills Crofts has devised a criminal scheme which contains a significant strain of maritime malfeasance....
View Article#1114: Mining Mount TBR – The Widow’s Cruise (1959) by Nicholas Blake
Nicholas Blake is hardly a dusty and forgotten member of detective fiction’s past, but my experiences with him to date have been so lacking in high spots that the only way I’m going to read The Widow’s...
View Article#1129: Minor Felonies – Lying in the Deep (2023) by Diana Urban
Lying in the Deep (2023) by Diana Urban was brought to my attention by a piece the author wrote on CrimeReads in which she said that she had taken the setup and some “iconic plot beats” from Death on...
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