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vero: Do you like Saki? Very much, but there’s so little of him. Never heard of Jane Gardam. So far.
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vero: Do you like Saki? Very much, but there’s so little of him. Never heard of Jane Gardam. So far.
by Fitzroy Morrissey, The Critic When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine? In Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Expres...
Porridge: Never heard of Jane Gardam. So far. Except I had — at least I knew the acronym.
“The only possible excuse for this book,” wrote G. K. Chesterton at the outset of his 1908 book Orthodoxy, “is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified whe...
Words of power “ALICE lived her life holding on to the sides”: one of Dorothy Parker’s many oh-so-cutting insults suddenly seemed to apply to me — or, rather, to my writing. My ex...
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S. V. Arbogast, First Things Twenty-six years ago, John Cardinal O'Connor launched Dorothy Day's candidacy for sainthood: "It has long been my contention that Dorothy Day is a sai...
vero: I love Chandler Where do you stand on Wodehouse?
“You cannot fight for the right of women to swear like weaving sailors, and then, if you find they have heard something untoward, have them pull away their petticoats.” No Such Thi...
The author of A Suit or a Suitcase takes ELLE’s literary survey.
THERE are many reasons for admiring and reading G. K. Chesterton: his wit, his wisdom, his mastery of paradox, his prophetic critique of so many of the absurdities thrown up by mer...
Readers familiar with Harriet Smith as Emma Woodhouse’s mousy, unmarriageable protégé will be surprised to learn that Harriet (not her real name, by the way) is already at age 18 a...
“Shall I praise you for this checklist mentality? Wisdom is pursuing you, friend, but you are fleet of foot.” No Such Thing, p. 119 The post As Swift as Anything appeared first on...
There’s no shortage of canons and vicars scattered throughout Christie’s delightful classic mystery novels, but observant readers may also note that Christie also peppers her tales...
I love him too, the little I’ve read. I’m a particular fan of the Empress of Blandings obv. Do you like Saki? My favourite. So awful Jane Gardam has died she is fab.
The following are Uzma Jalaluddin’s recommendations for series and novels featuring memorable amateur sleuths. * Miss Marple Agatha Christie, Miss Marple series I’ll be honest—as...
ERLE STANLEY GARDNER – The Case of the Worried Waitress. Perry Mason #77. William Morrow, hardcover, 1966. Pocket, paperback, 1967. Reprinted many other times. A waitress who wa...
Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind In delightful literary forms, he conveys moral and political insights that remain all the more true for being so profoundly countercultural.
“We must distinguish between a man of polite learning and a mere scholar: the first is a gentleman and what a gentleman should be; the last is a mere book-case, a bundle of letters...
First published in 1943 under the pseudonym Joseph Shearing, Marjorie Bowen’s Airing in a Closed Carriage combines historical fiction, psychological examination and crime writing....
by Freddie Sayers, UnHerd Rowan Williams’s baritone voice emanates from deep behind his white whiskers like a foghorn through the mist. It’s quiet but sonorous, and every word is c...
In 1938 London, DCI Lilian Wyles, the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four queens of crime.
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