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Currently reading:
Re-Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson (1932)
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Reading 2015:
January:
1. Raspberry Jam by Carolyn Wells (1920)
2. Legion by William Peter Blatty (1983)
3. Quintus Servinton: A Tale Founded Upon Incidents Of Real Occurrence by Henry Savery (1831)
4. The Victorian House: Domestic Life From Childbirth To Deathbed by Judith Flanders (2003)
5. The Mystery Of The Evil Eye by Anthony Wynne (Robert McNair Wilson) (1925)
6. The Social Gangster by Arthur B. Reeve (1916)
7. The Perfect Murder Case by Christopher Bush (1929)
8. Stupid Texas: Idiots In The Lone Star State by Leland Gregory (2010)
9. A Forger's Tale: The Extraordinary Story Of Henry Savery, Australia's First Novelist by Rod Howard (2011)
10. A Duchess And Her Daughter by Alfred Bishop Mason (1929)
11. The Hound Of Death And Other Stories by Agatha Christie (1933)
12. Beside The Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren (John Watson) (1895)
13. Arabella by Georgette Heyer (1949)
February:
14. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope (1873)
15. Death At Breakfast by John Rhode (Cecil J. Street) (1936)
16. La Tête d'un Homme by George Simenon (1931)
17. The Motor Rally Mystery by John Rhode (Cecil J. Street) (1933)
18. Diary Of A Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield (1930)
19. Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1895)
20. The Silver Wedding by Ethel M Dell (1931)
21. An Introduction To The Australian Novel, 1830-1930 by Barry Argyle (1972)
22. The Ice House by Minette Walters (1992)
23. The Fiend In You by Charles Beaumont (ed.) (1962)
24. Faulkner's Folly by Carolyn Wells (1917)
25. Darkness At Pemberley by T. H. White (1932)
26. Self-Made Woman by Faith Baldwin (1932)
March:
27. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
28. The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell (1932)
29. The Language Of Meditation: Four Studies In Nineteenth-Century Fiction by John Halperin (1973)
30. Elsie's Girlhood by Martha Finley (1872)
31. Sydney St. Aubyn. In A Series Of Letters by John Robinson (1794)
32. Quo Vadis: A Narrative Of The Time Of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896)
33. At The Blue Gates by Richard Keverne (Clifford Hosken) (1932)
34. That Was Yesterday by Storm Jameson (1932)
35. Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934)
36. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (1950)
January:
1. Raspberry Jam by Carolyn Wells (1920)
2. Legion by William Peter Blatty (1983)
3. Quintus Servinton: A Tale Founded Upon Incidents Of Real Occurrence by Henry Savery (1831)
4. The Victorian House: Domestic Life From Childbirth To Deathbed by Judith Flanders (2003)
5. The Mystery Of The Evil Eye by Anthony Wynne (Robert McNair Wilson) (1925)
6. The Social Gangster by Arthur B. Reeve (1916)
7. The Perfect Murder Case by Christopher Bush (1929)
8. Stupid Texas: Idiots In The Lone Star State by Leland Gregory (2010)
9. A Forger's Tale: The Extraordinary Story Of Henry Savery, Australia's First Novelist by Rod Howard (2011)
10. A Duchess And Her Daughter by Alfred Bishop Mason (1929)
11. The Hound Of Death And Other Stories by Agatha Christie (1933)
12. Beside The Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren (John Watson) (1895)
13. Arabella by Georgette Heyer (1949)
February:
14. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope (1873)
15. Death At Breakfast by John Rhode (Cecil J. Street) (1936)
16. La Tête d'un Homme by George Simenon (1931)
17. The Motor Rally Mystery by John Rhode (Cecil J. Street) (1933)
18. Diary Of A Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield (1930)
19. Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1895)
20. The Silver Wedding by Ethel M Dell (1931)
21. An Introduction To The Australian Novel, 1830-1930 by Barry Argyle (1972)
22. The Ice House by Minette Walters (1992)
23. The Fiend In You by Charles Beaumont (ed.) (1962)
24. Faulkner's Folly by Carolyn Wells (1917)
25. Darkness At Pemberley by T. H. White (1932)
26. Self-Made Woman by Faith Baldwin (1932)
March:
27. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
28. The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell (1932)
29. The Language Of Meditation: Four Studies In Nineteenth-Century Fiction by John Halperin (1973)
30. Elsie's Girlhood by Martha Finley (1872)
31. Sydney St. Aubyn. In A Series Of Letters by John Robinson (1794)
32. Quo Vadis: A Narrative Of The Time Of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896)
33. At The Blue Gates by Richard Keverne (Clifford Hosken) (1932)
34. That Was Yesterday by Storm Jameson (1932)
35. Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1934)
36. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (1950)
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Reading 2015:
April:
37. A Description Of Millenium Hall And The Country Adjacent by Sarah Scott (1762)
38. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm; or, What Became Of The Raby Orphans by "Alice B. Emerson" (1915)
39. The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) (1926)
40. The Treasure Train: Adventures Of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective, Which Ultimately Take Him Abroad by Arthur B. Reeve (1917)
41. The History of Lady Barton, A Novel, In Letters by Elizabeth Griffith (1771)
42. Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1898)
43. Dreadful Deeds And Awful Murders: Scotland Yard's First Detectives 1829-1878 by Joan Lock (1990)
44. Virtue In Distress: Studies In The Novel Of Sentiment From Richardson To Sade by R. F. Brissenden (1974)
45. The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E. M. Delafield (1932)
46. Week-End Marriage by Faith Baldwin (1932)
47. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer (1951)
48. The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie (1934)
49. Kate, Plus 10 by Edgar Wallace (1917)
May:
50. Death Lights A Candle by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1932)
51. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (1800)
52. The Age Of Agony: The Art Of Healing c. 1700-1800 by Guy R. Williams (1975)
53. They Wouldn't Be Chessmen by A. E. W. Mason (1935)
54. Boomerang by Helen Simpson (1932)
55. Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple (1932)
56. David Harum: A Story Of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott (1898)
57. Dusky Night by Victor Bridges (1940)
58. The Cipher by Kathe Koja (1991)
59. The Provincial Lady In America by E. M. Delafield (1934)
60. The Australian Novel, 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction by John Scheckter (1998)
June:
61. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John T. McIntyre (1910)
62. Cleek's Greatest Riddles by Thomas W. Hanshew (1916)
63. The Fellowship Of The Frog by Edgar Wallace (1925)
64. The Maestro Murders by Frances Shelley Wees (1931)
65. Something Wrong At Chillery by R. Francis Foster (1931)
66. The Prison Wall by Ethel M. Dell (1932)
67. Missing From His Home by Clifford Hosken (1932)
68. The Man With The Clubfoot by Valentine Williams (1918)
69. The Beauty Of The British Alps by Mary Leman Grimstone (1825)
70. To Have And To Hold by Mary Johnston (1899)
71. Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (1953)
72. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (1934)
73. The Fatal 5 Minutes by R. A. J. Walling (1932)
April:
37. A Description Of Millenium Hall And The Country Adjacent by Sarah Scott (1762)
38. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm; or, What Became Of The Raby Orphans by "Alice B. Emerson" (1915)
39. The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) (1926)
40. The Treasure Train: Adventures Of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective, Which Ultimately Take Him Abroad by Arthur B. Reeve (1917)
41. The History of Lady Barton, A Novel, In Letters by Elizabeth Griffith (1771)
42. Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1898)
43. Dreadful Deeds And Awful Murders: Scotland Yard's First Detectives 1829-1878 by Joan Lock (1990)
44. Virtue In Distress: Studies In The Novel Of Sentiment From Richardson To Sade by R. F. Brissenden (1974)
45. The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E. M. Delafield (1932)
46. Week-End Marriage by Faith Baldwin (1932)
47. The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer (1951)
48. The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie (1934)
49. Kate, Plus 10 by Edgar Wallace (1917)
May:
50. Death Lights A Candle by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1932)
51. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (1800)
52. The Age Of Agony: The Art Of Healing c. 1700-1800 by Guy R. Williams (1975)
53. They Wouldn't Be Chessmen by A. E. W. Mason (1935)
54. Boomerang by Helen Simpson (1932)
55. Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple (1932)
56. David Harum: A Story Of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott (1898)
57. Dusky Night by Victor Bridges (1940)
58. The Cipher by Kathe Koja (1991)
59. The Provincial Lady In America by E. M. Delafield (1934)
60. The Australian Novel, 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction by John Scheckter (1998)
June:
61. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John T. McIntyre (1910)
62. Cleek's Greatest Riddles by Thomas W. Hanshew (1916)
63. The Fellowship Of The Frog by Edgar Wallace (1925)
64. The Maestro Murders by Frances Shelley Wees (1931)
65. Something Wrong At Chillery by R. Francis Foster (1931)
66. The Prison Wall by Ethel M. Dell (1932)
67. Missing From His Home by Clifford Hosken (1932)
68. The Man With The Clubfoot by Valentine Williams (1918)
69. The Beauty Of The British Alps by Mary Leman Grimstone (1825)
70. To Have And To Hold by Mary Johnston (1899)
71. Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (1953)
72. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (1934)
73. The Fatal 5 Minutes by R. A. J. Walling (1932)
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Reading 2015:
July:
74. Evelina; or, The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World by Fanny Burney (1778)
75. Grasp Your Nettle by Eliza Lynn Linton (1865)
76. The Provincial Lady In Wartime by E. M. Delafield (1940)
77. Roger Sheringham And The Vane Mystery by Anthony Berkeley (1927)
78. The Six Proud Walkers by Francis Beeding (Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer) (1928)
79. The Island Forbidden To Man by Muriel Hine (1946)
80. The Hunger And Other Stories: A Collection Of Violent Entertainments by Charles Beaumont (1958)
81. The Crisis by Winston Churchill (1901)
82. Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth (1932)
83. Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie (1934)
84. The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer (1954)
85. Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. Richmond (1910)
86. Bellamy by Elinor Mordaunt (1914)
87. The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman (1927)
88. The Hanging Of Constance Hillier by Sydney Fowler Wright (1931)
August:
89. The Tragedy At Freyne by Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) (1927)
90. Printer's Devil by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson (1930)
91. No. 17 by J. Jefferson Farjeon (1926)
92. Mystery In Kensington Gore by Martin Porlock (Philip MacDonald) (1932)
93. A Matter Of Millions by Anna Katharine Green (1890)
94. The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol (1913)
95. The Mask Of Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) (1932)
96. Le Chien Jaune by Georges Simenon (1931)
97. The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902)
98. Mrs Tim Of The Regiment by D. E. Stevenson (1932)
99. Young Barbara by May Edginton (1948)
100. The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton by Anonymous (1689)
101. Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (1934)
102. Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer (1955)
103. Tish Plays The Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1926)
104. The Sinister Mark by Lee Thayer (1923)
September:
105. Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope (1874)
106. Golden Days: Further Leaves From Mrs Tim's Journal by D. E. Stevenson (1934)
107. Lisa Vale by Olive Higgins Prouty (1938)
108. Men And Women; or, Manorial Rights by Catharine Crowe (1843)
109. Bricks And Mortar by Helen Ashton (1932)
110. The Fortnight In September by R. C. Sherriff (1931)
111. Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward (1903)
112. Simpson: A Life by Edward Sackville-West (1931)
113. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer (1956)
114. Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont (1988)
115. Death In The Clouds by Agatha Christie (1935)
116. Jimmie Rezaire by Anthony Armstrong (1927)
117. Ruth Fielding And The Gypsies; or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson (1915)
October:
118. The Silver Star by Jackson Gregory (1931)
119. The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon (1922)
120. The Green Shadow by Herman Landon (1927)
121. Murder By Formula by J. H. Wallis (1931)
122. The White Crow by Philip MacDonald (1928)
123. The Blatchington Tangle by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole (1926)
July:
74. Evelina; or, The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World by Fanny Burney (1778)
75. Grasp Your Nettle by Eliza Lynn Linton (1865)
76. The Provincial Lady In Wartime by E. M. Delafield (1940)
77. Roger Sheringham And The Vane Mystery by Anthony Berkeley (1927)
78. The Six Proud Walkers by Francis Beeding (Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer) (1928)
79. The Island Forbidden To Man by Muriel Hine (1946)
80. The Hunger And Other Stories: A Collection Of Violent Entertainments by Charles Beaumont (1958)
81. The Crisis by Winston Churchill (1901)
82. Nothing Venture by Patricia Wentworth (1932)
83. Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie (1934)
84. The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer (1954)
85. Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. Richmond (1910)
86. Bellamy by Elinor Mordaunt (1914)
87. The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman (1927)
88. The Hanging Of Constance Hillier by Sydney Fowler Wright (1931)
August:
89. The Tragedy At Freyne by Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) (1927)
90. Printer's Devil by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson (1930)
91. No. 17 by J. Jefferson Farjeon (1926)
92. Mystery In Kensington Gore by Martin Porlock (Philip MacDonald) (1932)
93. A Matter Of Millions by Anna Katharine Green (1890)
94. The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol (1913)
95. The Mask Of Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) (1932)
96. Le Chien Jaune by Georges Simenon (1931)
97. The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902)
98. Mrs Tim Of The Regiment by D. E. Stevenson (1932)
99. Young Barbara by May Edginton (1948)
100. The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton by Anonymous (1689)
101. Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (1934)
102. Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer (1955)
103. Tish Plays The Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1926)
104. The Sinister Mark by Lee Thayer (1923)
September:
105. Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope (1874)
106. Golden Days: Further Leaves From Mrs Tim's Journal by D. E. Stevenson (1934)
107. Lisa Vale by Olive Higgins Prouty (1938)
108. Men And Women; or, Manorial Rights by Catharine Crowe (1843)
109. Bricks And Mortar by Helen Ashton (1932)
110. The Fortnight In September by R. C. Sherriff (1931)
111. Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward (1903)
112. Simpson: A Life by Edward Sackville-West (1931)
113. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer (1956)
114. Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont (1988)
115. Death In The Clouds by Agatha Christie (1935)
116. Jimmie Rezaire by Anthony Armstrong (1927)
117. Ruth Fielding And The Gypsies; or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson (1915)
October:
118. The Silver Star by Jackson Gregory (1931)
119. The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon (1922)
120. The Green Shadow by Herman Landon (1927)
121. Murder By Formula by J. H. Wallis (1931)
122. The White Crow by Philip MacDonald (1928)
123. The Blatchington Tangle by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole (1926)
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Unwritten reviews (aka The Shame File):
Unwritten blog posts:
Grasp Your Nettle by Eliza Lynn Linton
The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton by Anonymous
Men And Women; or, Manorial Rights by Catharine Crowe
Unwritten book reviews:
Evelina by Fanny Burney
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
Tish Plays The Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Sinister Mark by Lee Thayer
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Golden Days: Further Leaves From Mrs Tim's Journal by D. E. Stevenson
Lisa Vale by Olive Higgins Prouty
Bricks And Mortar by Helen Ashton
The Fortnight In September by R. C. Sherriff
Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward
Simpson: A Life by Edward Sackville-West
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
Death In The Clouds by Agatha Christie
Jimmie Rezaire by Anthony Armstrong
Ruth Fielding And The Gypsies; or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson
The Silver Star by Jackson Gregory
The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
The Green Shadow by Herman Landon
Murder By Formula by J. H. Wallis
The White Crow by Philip MacDonald
The Blatchington Tangle by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole
Unwritten blog posts:
Grasp Your Nettle by Eliza Lynn Linton
The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton by Anonymous
Unwritten book reviews:
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
Death In The Clouds by Agatha Christie
Jimmie Rezaire by Anthony Armstrong
Ruth Fielding And The Gypsies; or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson
The Silver Star by Jackson Gregory
The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
The Green Shadow by Herman Landon
Murder By Formula by J. H. Wallis
The White Crow by Philip MacDonald
The Blatchington Tangle by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole
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Books in transit:
On interlibrary loan / branch transfer / storage request:
Purchased and shipped:
Murder In The House Of Commons by Mary Hamilton
Murder In A Haystack by Dorothy Aldis
My Particular Murder by David Sharp
Red Altars by John Gordon Brandon
The Merriweather Girls On Campers' Trail by Lizette Edholm
Hargrave by Frances Trollope
On loan:
*The White Crow by Philip MacDonald (27/10/2015)
The Colonel's Daughter by Richard Aldington (25/11/2015)
**Simpson by Edward Sackville-West (25/11/2015)
The Rise Of The Egalitarian Family by Randolph Trumbach (25/11/2015)
Crinolines And Crimping Irons by Christina Walkley (25/11/2015)
The Victorian Heroine: A Changing Ideal by Patricia Thomson (25/11/2015)
Search Your Soul, Eustace by Margaret Maison (25/11/2015)
Re-Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson (04/01/2016)
Amazing Grace by E. S. Turner (04/01/2016)
Women And Marriage In Victorian Fiction by Jenni Calder (04/01/2016)
Love, Mystery And Misery by Coral Ann Howells (04/01/2016)
Track down:
Handfasted by Catherine Helen Spence {interlibrary loan}
The Final War by Louis Tracy {Internet Archive}
Guilty Bonds by William Le Queux {Project Gutenberg}
An Australian Heroine by Rosa Praed {Internet Archive}
The Last Lemurian by G. Firth Scott {Project Gutenberg Australia}
An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin {interlibrary loan}
The Medicine Lady by L. T. Meade {Book Depository}
Follow up:
The Holy Lover by Marie Conway Oemler {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
The Sign Of the Glove by Carlton Dawe {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
Daylight Murder by Paul McGuire {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin {interlibrary loan}
Hunting Shirt by Mary Johnston {online}
One-Man Girl by Maysie Greig {interlibrary loan}
The Avenging Parrot by Anne Austin {rare, expensive}
Mystery Stories For Girls by Agnes Miller {Michigan?}
On interlibrary loan / branch transfer / storage request:
Purchased and shipped:
Murder In The House Of Commons by Mary Hamilton
Murder In A Haystack by Dorothy Aldis
My Particular Murder by David Sharp
Red Altars by John Gordon Brandon
The Merriweather Girls On Campers' Trail by Lizette Edholm
Hargrave by Frances Trollope
On loan:
*The White Crow by Philip MacDonald (27/10/2015)
The Colonel's Daughter by Richard Aldington (25/11/2015)
**Simpson by Edward Sackville-West (25/11/2015)
The Rise Of The Egalitarian Family by Randolph Trumbach (25/11/2015)
Crinolines And Crimping Irons by Christina Walkley (25/11/2015)
The Victorian Heroine: A Changing Ideal by Patricia Thomson (25/11/2015)
Search Your Soul, Eustace by Margaret Maison (25/11/2015)
Re-Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson (04/01/2016)
Amazing Grace by E. S. Turner (04/01/2016)
Women And Marriage In Victorian Fiction by Jenni Calder (04/01/2016)
Love, Mystery And Misery by Coral Ann Howells (04/01/2016)
Track down:
Handfasted by Catherine Helen Spence {interlibrary loan}
The Final War by Louis Tracy {Internet Archive}
Guilty Bonds by William Le Queux {Project Gutenberg}
An Australian Heroine by Rosa Praed {Internet Archive}
The Last Lemurian by G. Firth Scott {Project Gutenberg Australia}
An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin {interlibrary loan}
The Medicine Lady by L. T. Meade {Book Depository}
Follow up:
The Holy Lover by Marie Conway Oemler {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
The Sign Of the Glove by Carlton Dawe {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
Daylight Murder by Paul McGuire {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
Hatter's Castle by A. J. Cronin {interlibrary loan}
Hunting Shirt by Mary Johnston {online}
One-Man Girl by Maysie Greig {interlibrary loan}
The Avenging Parrot by Anne Austin {rare, expensive}
Mystery Stories For Girls by Agnes Miller {Michigan?}
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Ongoing series and sequels:
(1866 - 1876) **Emile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq - The Widow Lerouge (1/6) {ManyBooks}
(1867 - 1905) **Martha Finley - Elsie Dinsmore - Elsie's Womanhood (4/28) {ManyBooks}
(1867 - 1872) **George MacDonald - The Seaboard Parish - Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood (1/3) {ManyBooks}
(1878 - 1917) **Anna Katharine Green - Ebenezer Gryce - The Doctor, His Wife And The Clock (7/12) {Project Gutenberg}
(1896 - 1909) **Melville Davisson Post - Randolph Mason - The Corrector Of Destinies (3/3) {Internet Archive}
(1894 - 1898) **Anthony Hope - Ruritania - Rupert Of Hentzau (3/3) {Project Gutenberg}
(1895 - 1901) **Guy Newell Boothby - Dr Nikola - Dr Nikola (2/5) {ManyBooks}
(1897 - 1900) **Anna Katharine Green - Amelia Butterworth - That Affair Next Door (1/3) {Fisher Library}
(1898 - 1915) **Kate Douglas Wiggins - Penelope - Penelope's Progress (1/4) {Project Gutenberg}
(1899 - 1909) **E. W. Hornung - Raffles - Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1/4) {ManyBooks}
(1899 - 1919) **Finley Peter Dunne - Mr Dooley - Mr Dooley In Peace And In War (1/8) {Internet Archive}
(1900 - 1974) *Ernest Bramah - Kai Lung - Kai Lung's Golden Hours (2/6) {ManyBooks}
(1901 - 1919) **Carolyn Wells - Patty Fairfield - Patty In Paris (5/17) {ManyBooks}
(1901 - 1927) **George Barr McCutcheon - Graustark - Graustark (1/6) {Project Gutenberg}
(1903 - 1904) **Louis Tracy - Reginald Brett - The Albert Gate Mystery (2/2) {ManyBooks}
(1905 - 1925) **Baroness Orczy - The Old Man In The Corner - Unravelled Knots (3/3) {Project Gutenberg Australia}}
(1905 - 1928) **Edgar Wallace - The Just Men - The Law Of The Four Just Men (4/6) {Project Gutenberg Australia}
(1906 - 1930) **John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga - Indian Summer Of A Forsyte (short story) (2/11) {Project Gutenberg}
(1907 - 1912) **Carolyn Wells - Marjorie - Marjorie's Vacation (1/6) {ManyBooks}
(1907 - 1942) *R. Austin Freeman - Dr John Thorndyke - A Certain Dr Thorndyke (15/26) {Roy Glashan's Library}
(1907 - 1941) *Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin - Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès (2/21) {ManyBooks}
(1908 - 1924) **Margaret Penrose - Dorothy Dale - Dorothy Dale: A Girl Of Today (1/13) {ManyBooks}
(1909 - 1942) *Carolyn Wells - Fleming Stone - The Mystery Of The Sycamore (12/49) {ManyBooks}
(1910 - 1936) *Arthur B. Reeve - Craig Kennedy - The Treasure-Train (6/11) {ManyBooks}
(1910 - 1946) A. E. W. Mason - Inspector Hanaud - The Ginger King (short story) (5/6) {Roy Glashan's Library}
(1910 - ????) *Edgar Wallace - Inspector Smith - Kate Plus Ten (3/?) {Project Gutenberg Australia}
(1910 - 1930) **Edgar Wallace - Inspector Elk - The Joker (3/6?) {ManyBooks}
(1910 - ????) *Thomas Hanshew - Cleek - The Riddle Of The Night (3/?) {Internet Archive}
(1910 - 1918) **John McIntyre - Ashton-Kirk - Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent (2/4) {Project Gutenberg}
(1910 - 1931) *Grace S. Richmond - Red Pepper Burns - Mrs Red Pepper (2/6) {Project Gutenberg}
(1910 - ????) *Jeffery Farnol - The Vibarts - The Way Beyond (3/?) {Project Gutenberg Canada}
(1911 - 1935) G. K. Chesterton - Father Brown - The Scandal Of Father Brown (5/5) {branch transfer}
(1911 - 1937) Mary Roberts Rinehart - Letitia Carberry - Tish Marches On (5/5) {Kindle}
(1911 - 1919) **Alfred Bishop Mason - Tom Strong - Tom Strong, Washington's Scout (1/5) {Internet Archive}
(1912 - 1928) **Louis Tracy (aka Gordon Holmes) - Winter and Furneaux - No Other Way (1/9) {Amazon domestic}
(1913 - 1934) *Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding - Ruth Fielding In Moving Pictures (9/30) {feedbooks}
(1913 - 1973) Sax Rohmer - Fu-Manchu - The Bride Of Fu-Manchu (6/14) {interlibrary loan}
(1913 - 1952) *Jeffery Farnol - Jasper Shrig - Peregrine's Progress (2/9) {ManyBooks}
(1914 - 1950) Mary Roberts Rinehart - Hilda Adams - Episode Of The Wandering Knife (5/5) Better World Books}
(1914 - 1934) *Ernest Bramah - Max Carrados - The Eyes Of Max Carrados (2/4) {Roy Glashan's Library}
(1916 - 1941) John Buchan - Edward Leithen - Sick Heart River (5/5) {Fisher Library}
(1915 - 1936) *John Buchan - Richard Hannay - The Thirty-Nine Steps (1/5) {Fisher Library / Project Gutenberg / branch transfer}
(1916 - 1917) **Carolyn Wells - Alan Ford - Faulkner's Folly (2/2) {owned}
(1916 - 1927) **Natalie Sumner Lincoln - Inspector Mitchell - 8725705::I Spy (1/10) {Project Gutenberg}
(1917 - 1929) **Henry Handel Richardson - Dr Richard Mahony - Australia Felix (1/3) {Fisher Library / City of Sydney}
(1918 - 1923) **Carolyn Wells - Pennington Wise - The Room With The Tassels (1/8) {Project Gutenberg}
(1918 - ????) *Valentine Williams - Okewood / Clubfoot - The Secret Hand (aka "Okewood Of The Secret Service") (2/?) {Kindle / Project Gutenberg}
(1919 - 1966) *Lee Thayer - Peter Clancy - The Key (6/60) {expensive, Rare Books}
(1920 - 1939) E. F. Benson - Mapp And Lucia - Lucia's Progress (5/6) {Fisher Library}
(1920 - 1948) *H. C. Bailey - Reggie Fortune - Mr Fortune, Please (4/23) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1920 - 1949) William McFee - Spenlove - The Beachcomber - (3/6) {AbeBooks / Better World Books}
(1920 - 1932) *Alice B. Emerson - Betty Gordon - Betty Gordon At Bramble Farm (1/15) {ManyBooks}
(1920 - 1975) Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot - The A.B.C. Murders (12/39) {owned}
(1920 - 1921) **Natalie Sumner Lincoln - Ferguson - The Red Seal (1/2) {Project Gutenberg}
(1921 - 1929) ** / ***Charles J. Dutton - John Bartley - 11573910::The Second Bullet (5/9) {expensive}
(1921 - 1925) **Herman Landon - The Gray Phantom - Gray Terror (3/5) {Amazon}
(1922 - 1973) *Agatha Christie - Tommy and Tuppence - N. Or M.? (3/5) {owned}
(1922 - 1927) *Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry - Jerry Boyne - The Mystery Woman (2/5) {Amazon, eBay?}
(1922 - 1931) *Valentine Williams - Inspector Manderton - The Yellow Streak (1/4) {Project Gutenberg}
(1923 - 1937) Dorothy L. Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey - Hangman's Holiday (9/15) {Fisher Library}
(1923 - 1924) **Carolyn Wells - Lorimer Lane - The Fourteenth Key (2/2) {eBay}
(1923 - 1931) *Agnes Miller - The Linger-Nots - The Linger-Nots And The Mystery House (1/5) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1923 - 1927) **Annie Haynes - Inspector Furnival - The Abbey Court Murder (1/3) {expensive}
(1924 - 1959) Philip MacDonald - Colonel Anthony Gethryn - Persons Unknown (aka "The Maze") (5/24) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1924 - 1957) *Freeman Wills Crofts - Inspector French - The Cheyne Mystery (2/30) {Fisher Library}
(1924 - 1935) *Francis D. Grierson - Inspector Sims and Professor Wells - The Double Thumb (2/13) {rare, expensive}
(1924 - 1940) *Lynn Brock - Colonel Gore - Colonel Gore's Second Case (2/12) {AbeBooks / State Library NSW, held}
(1924 - 1933) *Herbert Adams - Jimmie Haswell - The Crooked Lip (2/9) {Rare Books}
(1924 - 1944) *A. Fielding - Inspector Pointer - The Charteris Mystery (2/23) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1925 - 1961) ***John Rhode - Dr Priestley - Death In The Hopfields (25/72) {HathiTrust / State Library NSW, held}
(1925 - 1953) *G. D. H. Cole / M. Cole - Superintendent Wilson - The Murder At Crome House (4/?) {academic loans / State Library NSW, held}
(1925 - 1937) *Hulbert Footner - Madame Storey - Madame Storey (2/10) {mobilereads / Project Gutenberg Canada}
(1925 - 1932) *Earl Derr Biggers - Charlie Chan - The Chinese Parrot (2/6) {feedbooks}
(1925 - 1944) *Agatha Christie - Superintendent Battle - Cards On The Table (3/5) {owned}
(1925 - 1934) *Anthony Berkeley - Roger Sheringham - The Silk Stocking Murders (4/10) {owned}
(1925 - 1950) *Anthony Wynne (Robert McNair Wilson) - Dr Eustace Hailey - 4887157::The Double-Thirteen Mystery (2/27) (aka "The Double Thirteen") {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1925 - 1939) *Charles Barry (Charles Bryson) - Inspector Lawrence Gilmartin - The Smaller Penny (1/15) {AbeBooks}
(1925 - 1929) **Will Scott - Will Disher - 16245169::Disher--Detective (aka "The Black Stamp") (1/3) {AbeBooks, expensive}
(1926 - 1968) * / ***Christopher Bush - Ludovic Travers - Dead Man Twice (3/63) {AbeBooks}
(1926 - 1939) *S. S. Van Dine - Philo Vance - The Canary Murder Case (2/12) {owned}
(1926 - 1952) *J. Jefferson Farjeon - Ben the Tramp - The House Opposite (2/8) {Kindle, upcoming}
(1926 - ????) *G. D. H. Cole / M. Cole - Everard Blatchington - The Blatchington Tangle (1/?) {owned}
(1927 - 1933) *Herman Landon - The Picaroon - The Picaroon Does Justice (2/7) {Book Searchers}
(1927 - 1932) *Anthony Armstrong - Jimmie Rezaire - The Secret Trail (2/5) {Kindle}
(1927 - 1937) *Ronald Knox - Miles Bredon - The Three Taps (1/5) {Kindle / Project Gutenberg Canada}
(1927 - 1958) *Brian Flynn - Anthony Bathurst - The Billiard-Room Mystery (1/54) {Rare Books / AbeBooks}
(1927 - 1947) *J. J. Connington - Sir Clinton Driffield - Murder In The Maze (1/17) {Kindle}
(1927 - 1935) *Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Malleson) - Scott Egerton - The Murder Of Mrs Davenport (2/10) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1928 - 1961) Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver - The Case Is Closed (2/33) {branch transfer}
(1928 - 1936) ***Gavin Holt - Luther Bastion - The Garden Of Silent Beasts (5/17) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1928 - ????) Trygve Lund - Weston of the Royal North-West Mounted Police - In The Snow: A Romance Of The Canadian Backwoods (4/?) {AbeBooks}
(1928 - 1936) *Kay Cleaver Strahan - Lynn MacDonald - Death Traps (3/7) {owned}
(1928 - 1937) *John Alexander Ferguson - Francis McNab - Murder On The Marsh (2/5) {Internet Archive}
(1928 - 1960) *Cecil Freeman Gregg - Inspector Higgins - The Murdered Manservant (aka "The Body In The Safe") (1/35) {rare, expensive}
(1928 - 1959) *John Gordon Brandon - Inspector Patrick Aloysius McCarthy - 14130726::Red Altars (aka "The Secret Brotherhood") (1/?) {ordered}
(1928 - 1935) *Roland Daniel - Inspector Saville - The Society Of The Spiders (1/?) {unavailable}
(1928 - 1946) *Francis Beeding - Alistair Granby - The Five Flamboys (2/18) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1928 - 1930) **Annie Haynes - Inspector Stoddart - The Man With The Dark Beard (1/4) {expensive, upcoming rerelease}
(1927 - 1932) *William Blair Morton Ferguson (aka William Morton) - Daniel "Biff" Corrigan - Masquerade (1/4) {expensive}
(1928 - 1930) **Elsa Barker - Dexter Drake and Paul Howard - The Cobra Candlestick (aka "The Cobra Shaped Candlestick") (1/3) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1947) Margery Allingham - Albert Campion - Sweet Danger (5/35) {Fisher Library}
(1929 - 1984) Gladys Mitchell - Mrs Bradley - Death At The Opera (5/67) {interlibrary loan}
(1929 - 1937) ***Patricia Wentworth - Benbow Smith - Walk With Care (3/4) {expensive}
(1929 - ????) Mignon Eberhart - Nurse Sarah Keate - 1048724::Murder By An Aristocrat (5/8) {Rare Books / Kindle US}
(1929 - ????) Moray Dalton - Inspector Collier - ???? (3/?) - Death In The Cup {unavailable}, The Wife Of Baal {unavailable}
(1929 - ????) * / ***Charles Reed Jones - Leighton Swift - The King Murder (1/?) {AbeBooks}
(1929 - 1931) Carolyn Wells - Kenneth Carlisle - Sleeping Dogs (1/3) {Amazon / eBay / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1967) *George Goodchild - Inspector McLean - McLean Of Scotland Yard (1/65) {State Library NSW, held}
(1929 - 1979) *Leonard Gribble - Anthony Slade - The Case Of The Marsden Rubies (1/33) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1932) *E. R. Punshon - Carter and Bell - The Unexpected Legacy (1/5) {expensive, omnibus / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1971) *Ellery Queen - Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery (1/40) {interlibrary loan}
(1929 - 1966) *Arthur Upfield - Bony - The Barrakee Mystery (1/29) {Fisher Library}
(1929 - 1931) *Ernest Raymond - Once In England - A Family That Was (1/3) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1929 - 1937) *Anthony Berkeley - Ambrose Chitterwick - The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1/3) {City of Sydney / Fisher Library}
(1929 - 1940) *Jean Lilly - DA Bruce Perkins - 14385646::The Seven Sisters (1/3) {AbeBooks / expensive shipping}
(1929 - 1935) *N. A. Temple-Ellis (Nevile Holdaway) - Montrose Arbuthnot - The Inconsistent Villains (1/4) {AbeBooks / expensive shipping}
(1929 - 1943) *Gret Lane - Kate Clare Marsh and Inspector Barrin - 14438332::The Cancelled Score Mystery (1/9) {unavailable?}
(1929 - 1961) *Henry Holt - Inspector Silver - The Mayfair Mystery (aka "The Mayfair Murder") (1/16) {AbeBooks}
(1929 - 1930) *J. J. Connington - Superintendent Ross - The Eye In The Museum (1/2) {Kindle}
(1929 - 1941) *H. Maynard Smith - Inspector Frost - Inspector Frost's Jigsaw (1/7) {AbeBooks, omnibus}
(1929 - ????) *Armstrong Livingston - Jimmy Traynor - The Doublecross (1/?) {AbeBooks}
(1929 - 1932) Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson - Sir John Saumarez - Re-Enter Sir John (3/3) {Fisher Library storage}
(1929 - 1940) *Rufus King - Lieutenant Valcour - Murder By The Clock (1/11) {AbeBooks / omnibus}
(1929 - 1933) *Will Levinrew (Will Levine) - Professor Brierly - The Poison Plague (1/5) {ordered}
(1929 - 1932) *Nancy Barr Mavity - Peter Piper - The Body On The Floor (1/5) {AbeBooks / Rare Books / State Library NSW, held}
(1930 - ????) Moray Dalton - Hermann Glide - ???? (3/?) {see above}
(1930 - 1932) Hugh Walpole - The Herries Chronicles - The Fortress (3/4) {Fisher Library}
(1930 - 1932) Faith Baldwin - The Girls Of Divine Corners - Myra: A Story Of Divine Corners (4/4) {owned}
(1930 - 1960) ***Miles Burton - Desmond Merrion - The Milk-Churn Murder (10/61) {Munsey's}
(1930 - 1933) Roger Scarlett - Inspector Kane - Murder Among The Angells (4/5) {online shopping}
(1930 - 1941) *Harriette Ashbrook - Philip "Spike" Tracy - The Murder Of Sigurd Sharon (3/7) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - 1943) Anthony Abbot - Thatcher Colt - About The Murder Of The Night Club Lady (3/8) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - ????) * / ***David Sharp - Professor Henry Arthur Fielding - My Particular Murder (2/?) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - 1950) *H. C. Bailey - Josiah Clunk - Garstons aka The Garston Murder Case (1/11) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - 1968) *Francis Van Wyck Mason - Captain North - Seeds Of Murder (1/41) {rare, expensive}
(1930 - 1976) *Agatha Christie - Miss Jane Marple - The Body In The Library (3/12) {owned}
(1930 - ????) *Anne Austin - James "Bonnie" Dundee - The Avenging Parrot (1/?) - {AbeBooks, expensive shipping}
(1930 - 1950) *Leslie Ford (as David Frome) - Mr Pinkerton and Inspector Bull - The Hammersmith Murders (1/11) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1930 - 1935) *"Diplomat" (John Franklin Carter) - Dennis Tyler - Murder In The State Department (1/7) {expensive}
(1930 - 1962) *Helen Reilly - Inspector Christopher McKee - The Diamond Feather (1/31) {AbeBooks, expensive shipping / Rare Books}
(1930 - 1933) *Mary Plum - John Smith - The Killing Of Judge MacFarlane (1/4) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1930 - 1945) *Hulbert Footner - Amos Lee Mappin - The Mystery Of The Folded Paper (aka The Folded Paper Mystery (1/10) {mobilereads / omnibus}
(1930 - 1940) *E. M. Delafield - The Provincial Lady - The Provincial Lady In Wartime (4/4) {Fisher Library}
(1930 - 1933) *Monte Barrett - Peter Cardigan - The Pelham Murder Case (1/3) {Amazon}
(1930 - ????) Vernon Loder - Inspector Brews and Ned Hope - The Essex Murders (aka "The Death Pool") (1/?) {Kindle}
(1931 - 1940) Bruce Graeme - Superintendent Stevens and Pierre Allain - The Imperfect Crime (2/8) {owned}
(1931 - 1951) Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Asey Mayo - The Mystery Of The Cape Cod Players (3/24) {AbeBooks / State Library NSW, held}
(1931 - 1955) Stuart Palmer - Hildegarde Withers - Murder On Wheels (2/18) {Kindle?}
(1931 - 1951) Olive Higgins Prouty - The Vale Novels - Now, Voyager (3/5) {interlibrary loan}
(1931 - 1933) Sydney Fowler - Inspector Cleveland - Arresting Delia (4/4) {Book Depository / Rare Books}
(1931 - 1934) J. H. Wallis - Inspector Wilton Jacks - The Capital City Mystery (2/6) {AbeBooks, expensive}
(1931 - ????) Paul McGuire - Inspector Cummings - Daylight Murder (aka "Murder At High Noon") (3/5) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1931 - 1937) Carlton Dawe - Leathermouth - The Sign Of The Glove (2/13) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1931 - 1947) R. L. Goldman - Asaph Clume and Rufus Reed - The Murder Of Harvey Blake (1/6) {AbeBooks}
(1931 - 1959) E. C. R. Lorac (Edith Caroline Rivett) - Inspector Robert Macdonald - The Murder On The Burrows (1/46) {rare, expensive}
(1931 - ????) Clifton Robbins - Clay Harrison - Dusty Death (1/?) {owned}
(1931 - 1972) Georges Simenon - Inspector Maigret - La Nuit du Carrefour (7/75) {branch transfer}
(1931 - 1934) T. S. Stribling - The Vaiden Trilogy - 1251985::The Store (2/3) {academic loan / State Library, held}
(1931 - 1935) Pearl S. Buck - The House Of Earth - Sons (2/3) {Fisher Library}
(1931 - 1942) R. A. J. Walling - Garstang - 2230672::The Stroke Of One (1/3) {Amazon}
(1931 - ????) Francis Bonnamy (Audrey Boyers Walz) - Peter Utley Shane - Death By Appointment (1/8){AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1932 - 1954) Sydney Fowler - Inspector Cambridge and Mr Jellipot - The Bell Street Murders (1/11) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1932 - 1935) Murray Thomas - Inspector Wilkins - 14385544::Buzzards Pick The Bones (1/3) {AbeBooks, expensive}
(1932 - ????) R. A. J. Walling - Philip Tolefree - Follow The Blue Car (2/?) {expensive}
(1932 - 1962) T. Arthur Plummer - Detective-Inspector Andrew Frampton - 14481205::Shadowed By The C. I. D. (1/50) {unavailable?}
(1932 - 1936) John Victor Turner - Amos Petrie - 14498091::Death Must Have Laughed (1/7) {Rare Books}
(1932 - 1944) Nicholas Brady (John Victor Turner) - Ebenezer Buckle - The House Of Strange Guests (1/4) {unavailable?}
(1932 - 1932) Lizette M. Edholm - The Merriweather Girls - The Merriweather Girls On Campers' Trail (2/4) {ordered}
(1932 - 1933) Barnaby Ross (aka Ellery Queen) - Drury Lane - The Tragedy Of Y (2/4) {Internet Archive / Rare Books}
(1932 - 1952) D. E. Stevenson - Mrs Tim - Mrs Tim Carries On (3/5) {expensive / State Library NSW, held}
(1933 - 1959) John Gordon Brandon - Arthur Stukeley Pennington - West End! (1/?) {AbeBooks / State Library, held}
(1933 - 1940) Lilian Garis - Carol Duncan - The Ghost Of Melody Lane (1/9) {AbeBooks}
(1933 - 1934) Peter Hunt (George Worthing Yates and Charles Hunt Marshall) - Allan Miller - Murders At Scandal House (1/3) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1933 - 1968) John Dickson Carr - Gideon Fell - Hag's Nook (1/23) {Better World Books / State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1933 - 1939) Gregory Dean - Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Simon - The Case Of Marie Corwin (1/3) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1933 - 1956) E. R. Punshon - Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen - Information Received (1/35) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held / Rare Books}
(1933 - 1970) Dennis Wheatley - Duke de Richlieu - The Forbidden Territory (1/11) {Fisher Library}
(1933 - 1934) Jackson Gregory - Paul Savoy - A Case For Mr Paul Savoy (1/3) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1934 - 1936) Storm Jameson - The Mirror In Darkness - Company Parade (1/3) {Fisher Library}
(1934 - 1953) Leslie Ford (Zenith Jones Brown) - Colonel John Primrose and Grace Latham - The Clock Strikes Twelve (aka "The Supreme Court Murder") (NB: novella) {owned}
(1934 - 1949) Richard Goyne - Paul Templeton - Strange Motives (1/13) {unavailable?}
(1934 - 1941) N. A. Temple-Ellis (Nevile Holdaway) - Inspector Wren - Three Went In (1/3) {unavailable?}
(1934 - 1953) Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) - Sir Henry Merivale - The Plague Court Murders (1/22) {Fisher Library}
(1934 - 1968) Dennis Wheatley - Gregory Sallust - Black August (1/11) {interlibrary loan / omnibus}
(1935 - 1939) Francis Beeding - Inspector George Martin - The Norwich Victims (1/3) {AbeBooks / Book Depository / State Library NSW, held}
(1935 - 1976) Nigel Morland - Palmyra Pym - 14407065::The Moon Murders (1/28) {State Library NSW, held}
(1935 - 1941) Clyde Clason - Professor Theocritus Lucius Westborough - The Fifth Tumbler (1/10) {unavailable?}
(1935 - ????) G. D. H. Cole / M. Cole - Dr Tancred - Dr Tancred Begins (1/?) (AbeBooks, expensive / State Library NSW, held / Rare Books}
(1935 - ????) George Harmon Coxe - Kent Murdock - Murder With Pictures (1/22) {AbeBooks}
(1935 - 1959) Kathleen Moore Knight - Elisha Macomber - Death Blew Out The Match (1/16) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1936 - 1974) Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Malleson) - Arthur Crook - Murder By Experts (1/51) {interlibrary loan}
(1939 - 1942) Patricia Wentworth - Inspector Ernest Lamb - The Blind Side (1/3) {interlibrary loan / Kindle}
(1947 - 1974) Dennis Wheatley - Roger Brook - The Launching Of Roger Brook (1/12) {Fisher Library storage}
(1953 - 1960) Dennis Wheatley - Molly Fountain and Colonel Verney - To The Devil A Daughter (1/2) {Fisher Library storage}
*** Incompletely available series
** Series complete pre-1931
* Present status pre-1931
(1866 - 1876) **Emile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq - The Widow Lerouge (1/6) {ManyBooks}
(1867 - 1905) **Martha Finley - Elsie Dinsmore - Elsie's Womanhood (4/28) {ManyBooks}
(1867 - 1872) **George MacDonald - The Seaboard Parish - Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood (1/3) {ManyBooks}
(1878 - 1917) **Anna Katharine Green - Ebenezer Gryce - The Doctor, His Wife And The Clock (7/12) {Project Gutenberg}
(1894 - 1898) **Anthony Hope - Ruritania - Rupert Of Hentzau (3/3) {Project Gutenberg}
(1895 - 1901) **Guy Newell Boothby - Dr Nikola - Dr Nikola (2/5) {ManyBooks}
(1897 - 1900) **Anna Katharine Green - Amelia Butterworth - That Affair Next Door (1/3) {Fisher Library}
(1898 - 1915) **Kate Douglas Wiggins - Penelope - Penelope's Progress (1/4) {Project Gutenberg}
(1899 - 1909) **E. W. Hornung - Raffles - Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1/4) {ManyBooks}
(1899 - 1919) **Finley Peter Dunne - Mr Dooley - Mr Dooley In Peace And In War (1/8) {Internet Archive}
(1900 - 1974) *Ernest Bramah - Kai Lung - Kai Lung's Golden Hours (2/6) {ManyBooks}
(1901 - 1919) **Carolyn Wells - Patty Fairfield - Patty In Paris (5/17) {ManyBooks}
(1901 - 1927) **George Barr McCutcheon - Graustark - Graustark (1/6) {Project Gutenberg}
(1905 - 1928) **Edgar Wallace - The Just Men - The Law Of The Four Just Men (4/6) {Project Gutenberg Australia}
(1906 - 1930) **John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga - Indian Summer Of A Forsyte (short story) (2/11) {Project Gutenberg}
(1907 - 1912) **Carolyn Wells - Marjorie - Marjorie's Vacation (1/6) {ManyBooks}
(1907 - 1942) *R. Austin Freeman - Dr John Thorndyke - A Certain Dr Thorndyke (15/26) {Roy Glashan's Library}
(1907 - 1941) *Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin - Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès (2/21) {ManyBooks}
(1908 - 1924) **Margaret Penrose - Dorothy Dale - Dorothy Dale: A Girl Of Today (1/13) {ManyBooks}
(1909 - 1942) *Carolyn Wells - Fleming Stone - The Mystery Of The Sycamore (12/49) {ManyBooks}
(1910 - 1936) *Arthur B. Reeve - Craig Kennedy - The Treasure-Train (6/11) {ManyBooks}
(1910 - 1946) A. E. W. Mason - Inspector Hanaud - The Ginger King (short story) (5/6) {Roy Glashan's Library}
(1910 - ????) *Edgar Wallace - Inspector Smith - Kate Plus Ten (3/?) {Project Gutenberg Australia}
(1910 - 1930) **Edgar Wallace - Inspector Elk - The Joker (3/6?) {ManyBooks}
(1910 - ????) *Thomas Hanshew - Cleek - The Riddle Of The Night (3/?) {Internet Archive}
(1910 - 1918) **John McIntyre - Ashton-Kirk - Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent (2/4) {Project Gutenberg}
(1910 - 1931) *Grace S. Richmond - Red Pepper Burns - Mrs Red Pepper (2/6) {Project Gutenberg}
(1910 - ????) *Jeffery Farnol - The Vibarts - The Way Beyond (3/?) {Project Gutenberg Canada}
(1911 - 1937) Mary Roberts Rinehart - Letitia Carberry - Tish Marches On (5/5) {Kindle}
(1911 - 1919) **Alfred Bishop Mason - Tom Strong - Tom Strong, Washington's Scout (1/5) {Internet Archive}
(1912 - 1928) **Louis Tracy (aka Gordon Holmes) - Winter and Furneaux - No Other Way (1/9) {Amazon domestic}
(1913 - 1934) *Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding - Ruth Fielding In Moving Pictures (9/30) {feedbooks}
(1913 - 1973) Sax Rohmer - Fu-Manchu - The Bride Of Fu-Manchu (6/14) {interlibrary loan}
(1913 - 1952) *Jeffery Farnol - Jasper Shrig - Peregrine's Progress (2/9) {ManyBooks}
(1914 - 1934) *Ernest Bramah - Max Carrados - The Eyes Of Max Carrados (2/4) {Roy Glashan's Library}
(1915 - 1936) *John Buchan - Richard Hannay - The Thirty-Nine Steps (1/5) {Fisher Library / Project Gutenberg / branch transfer}
(1916 - 1927) **Natalie Sumner Lincoln - Inspector Mitchell - 8725705::I Spy (1/10) {Project Gutenberg}
(1917 - 1929) **Henry Handel Richardson - Dr Richard Mahony - Australia Felix (1/3) {Fisher Library / City of Sydney}
(1918 - 1923) **Carolyn Wells - Pennington Wise - The Room With The Tassels (1/8) {Project Gutenberg}
(1918 - ????) *Valentine Williams - Okewood / Clubfoot - The Secret Hand (aka "Okewood Of The Secret Service") (2/?) {Kindle / Project Gutenberg}
(1919 - 1966) *Lee Thayer - Peter Clancy - The Key (6/60) {expensive, Rare Books}
(1920 - 1939) E. F. Benson - Mapp And Lucia - Lucia's Progress (5/6) {Fisher Library}
(1920 - 1948) *H. C. Bailey - Reggie Fortune - Mr Fortune, Please (4/23) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1920 - 1949) William McFee - Spenlove - The Beachcomber - (3/6) {AbeBooks / Better World Books}
(1920 - 1932) *Alice B. Emerson - Betty Gordon - Betty Gordon At Bramble Farm (1/15) {ManyBooks}
(1920 - 1975) Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot - The A.B.C. Murders (12/39) {owned}
(1920 - 1921) **Natalie Sumner Lincoln - Ferguson - The Red Seal (1/2) {Project Gutenberg}
(1921 - 1929) ** / ***Charles J. Dutton - John Bartley - 11573910::The Second Bullet (5/9) {expensive}
(1921 - 1925) **Herman Landon - The Gray Phantom - Gray Terror (3/5) {Amazon}
(1922 - 1973) *Agatha Christie - Tommy and Tuppence - N. Or M.? (3/5) {owned}
(1922 - 1927) *Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry - Jerry Boyne - The Mystery Woman (2/5) {Amazon, eBay?}
(1922 - 1931) *Valentine Williams - Inspector Manderton - The Yellow Streak (1/4) {Project Gutenberg}
(1923 - 1937) Dorothy L. Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey - Hangman's Holiday (9/15) {Fisher Library}
(1923 - 1931) *Agnes Miller - The Linger-Nots - The Linger-Nots And The Mystery House (1/5) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1923 - 1927) **Annie Haynes - Inspector Furnival - The Abbey Court Murder (1/3) {expensive}
(1924 - 1959) Philip MacDonald - Colonel Anthony Gethryn - Persons Unknown (aka "The Maze") (5/24) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1924 - 1957) *Freeman Wills Crofts - Inspector French - The Cheyne Mystery (2/30) {Fisher Library}
(1924 - 1935) *Francis D. Grierson - Inspector Sims and Professor Wells - The Double Thumb (2/13) {rare, expensive}
(1924 - 1940) *Lynn Brock - Colonel Gore - Colonel Gore's Second Case (2/12) {AbeBooks / State Library NSW, held}
(1924 - 1933) *Herbert Adams - Jimmie Haswell - The Crooked Lip (2/9) {Rare Books}
(1924 - 1944) *A. Fielding - Inspector Pointer - The Charteris Mystery (2/23) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1925 - 1961) ***John Rhode - Dr Priestley - Death In The Hopfields (25/72) {HathiTrust / State Library NSW, held}
(1925 - 1953) *G. D. H. Cole / M. Cole - Superintendent Wilson - The Murder At Crome House (4/?) {academic loans / State Library NSW, held}
(1925 - 1937) *Hulbert Footner - Madame Storey - Madame Storey (2/10) {mobilereads / Project Gutenberg Canada}
(1925 - 1932) *Earl Derr Biggers - Charlie Chan - The Chinese Parrot (2/6) {feedbooks}
(1925 - 1944) *Agatha Christie - Superintendent Battle - Cards On The Table (3/5) {owned}
(1925 - 1934) *Anthony Berkeley - Roger Sheringham - The Silk Stocking Murders (4/10) {owned}
(1925 - 1950) *Anthony Wynne (Robert McNair Wilson) - Dr Eustace Hailey - 4887157::The Double-Thirteen Mystery (2/27) (aka "The Double Thirteen") {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1925 - 1939) *Charles Barry (Charles Bryson) - Inspector Lawrence Gilmartin - The Smaller Penny (1/15) {AbeBooks}
(1925 - 1929) **Will Scott - Will Disher - 16245169::Disher--Detective (aka "The Black Stamp") (1/3) {AbeBooks, expensive}
(1926 - 1968) * / ***Christopher Bush - Ludovic Travers - Dead Man Twice (3/63) {AbeBooks}
(1926 - 1939) *S. S. Van Dine - Philo Vance - The Canary Murder Case (2/12) {owned}
(1926 - 1952) *J. Jefferson Farjeon - Ben the Tramp - The House Opposite (2/8) {Kindle, upcoming}
(1926 - ????) *G. D. H. Cole / M. Cole - Everard Blatchington - The Blatchington Tangle (1/?) {owned}
(1927 - 1933) *Herman Landon - The Picaroon - The Picaroon Does Justice (2/7) {Book Searchers}
(1927 - 1932) *Anthony Armstrong - Jimmie Rezaire - The Secret Trail (2/5) {Kindle}
(1927 - 1937) *Ronald Knox - Miles Bredon - The Three Taps (1/5) {Kindle / Project Gutenberg Canada}
(1927 - 1958) *Brian Flynn - Anthony Bathurst - The Billiard-Room Mystery (1/54) {Rare Books / AbeBooks}
(1927 - 1947) *J. J. Connington - Sir Clinton Driffield - Murder In The Maze (1/17) {Kindle}
(1927 - 1935) *Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Malleson) - Scott Egerton - The Murder Of Mrs Davenport (2/10) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1928 - 1961) Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver - The Case Is Closed (2/33) {branch transfer}
(1928 - 1936) ***Gavin Holt - Luther Bastion - The Garden Of Silent Beasts (5/17) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1928 - ????) Trygve Lund - Weston of the Royal North-West Mounted Police - In The Snow: A Romance Of The Canadian Backwoods (4/?) {AbeBooks}
(1928 - 1936) *Kay Cleaver Strahan - Lynn MacDonald - Death Traps (3/7) {owned}
(1928 - 1937) *John Alexander Ferguson - Francis McNab - Murder On The Marsh (2/5) {Internet Archive}
(1928 - 1960) *Cecil Freeman Gregg - Inspector Higgins - The Murdered Manservant (aka "The Body In The Safe") (1/35) {rare, expensive}
(1928 - 1959) *John Gordon Brandon - Inspector Patrick Aloysius McCarthy - 14130726::Red Altars (aka "The Secret Brotherhood") (1/?) {ordered}
(1928 - 1935) *Roland Daniel - Inspector Saville - The Society Of The Spiders (1/?) {unavailable}
(1928 - 1946) *Francis Beeding - Alistair Granby - The Five Flamboys (2/18) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1928 - 1930) **Annie Haynes - Inspector Stoddart - The Man With The Dark Beard (1/4) {expensive, upcoming rerelease}
(1927 - 1932) *William Blair Morton Ferguson (aka William Morton) - Daniel "Biff" Corrigan - Masquerade (1/4) {expensive}
(1928 - 1930) **Elsa Barker - Dexter Drake and Paul Howard - The Cobra Candlestick (aka "The Cobra Shaped Candlestick") (1/3) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1947) Margery Allingham - Albert Campion - Sweet Danger (5/35) {Fisher Library}
(1929 - 1984) Gladys Mitchell - Mrs Bradley - Death At The Opera (5/67) {interlibrary loan}
(1929 - 1937) ***Patricia Wentworth - Benbow Smith - Walk With Care (3/4) {expensive}
(1929 - ????) Mignon Eberhart - Nurse Sarah Keate - 1048724::Murder By An Aristocrat (5/8) {Rare Books / Kindle US}
(1929 - ????) Moray Dalton - Inspector Collier - ???? (3/?) - Death In The Cup {unavailable}, The Wife Of Baal {unavailable}
(1929 - ????) * / ***Charles Reed Jones - Leighton Swift - The King Murder (1/?) {AbeBooks}
(1929 - 1931) Carolyn Wells - Kenneth Carlisle - Sleeping Dogs (1/3) {Amazon / eBay / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1967) *George Goodchild - Inspector McLean - McLean Of Scotland Yard (1/65) {State Library NSW, held}
(1929 - 1979) *Leonard Gribble - Anthony Slade - The Case Of The Marsden Rubies (1/33) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1932) *E. R. Punshon - Carter and Bell - The Unexpected Legacy (1/5) {expensive, omnibus / Rare Books}
(1929 - 1971) *Ellery Queen - Ellery Queen - The Roman Hat Mystery (1/40) {interlibrary loan}
(1929 - 1966) *Arthur Upfield - Bony - The Barrakee Mystery (1/29) {Fisher Library}
(1929 - 1931) *Ernest Raymond - Once In England - A Family That Was (1/3) {State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1929 - 1937) *Anthony Berkeley - Ambrose Chitterwick - The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1/3) {City of Sydney / Fisher Library}
(1929 - 1940) *Jean Lilly - DA Bruce Perkins - 14385646::The Seven Sisters (1/3) {AbeBooks / expensive shipping}
(1929 - 1935) *N. A. Temple-Ellis (Nevile Holdaway) - Montrose Arbuthnot - The Inconsistent Villains (1/4) {AbeBooks / expensive shipping}
(1929 - 1943) *Gret Lane - Kate Clare Marsh and Inspector Barrin - 14438332::The Cancelled Score Mystery (1/9) {unavailable?}
(1929 - 1961) *Henry Holt - Inspector Silver - The Mayfair Mystery (aka "The Mayfair Murder") (1/16) {AbeBooks}
(1929 - 1930) *J. J. Connington - Superintendent Ross - The Eye In The Museum (1/2) {Kindle}
(1929 - 1941) *H. Maynard Smith - Inspector Frost - Inspector Frost's Jigsaw (1/7) {AbeBooks, omnibus}
(1929 - ????) *Armstrong Livingston - Jimmy Traynor - The Doublecross (1/?) {AbeBooks}
(1929 - 1932) Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson - Sir John Saumarez - Re-Enter Sir John (3/3) {Fisher Library storage}
(1929 - 1940) *Rufus King - Lieutenant Valcour - Murder By The Clock (1/11) {AbeBooks / omnibus}
(1929 - 1933) *Will Levinrew (Will Levine) - Professor Brierly - The Poison Plague (1/5) {ordered}
(1929 - 1932) *Nancy Barr Mavity - Peter Piper - The Body On The Floor (1/5) {AbeBooks / Rare Books / State Library NSW, held}
(1930 - ????) Moray Dalton - Hermann Glide - ???? (3/?) {see above}
(1930 - 1932) Hugh Walpole - The Herries Chronicles - The Fortress (3/4) {Fisher Library}
(1930 - 1960) ***Miles Burton - Desmond Merrion - The Milk-Churn Murder (10/61) {Munsey's}
(1930 - 1933) Roger Scarlett - Inspector Kane - Murder Among The Angells (4/5) {online shopping}
(1930 - 1941) *Harriette Ashbrook - Philip "Spike" Tracy - The Murder Of Sigurd Sharon (3/7) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - 1943) Anthony Abbot - Thatcher Colt - About The Murder Of The Night Club Lady (3/8) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - ????) * / ***David Sharp - Professor Henry Arthur Fielding - My Particular Murder (2/?) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - 1950) *H. C. Bailey - Josiah Clunk - Garstons aka The Garston Murder Case (1/11) {AbeBooks}
(1930 - 1968) *Francis Van Wyck Mason - Captain North - Seeds Of Murder (1/41) {rare, expensive}
(1930 - 1976) *Agatha Christie - Miss Jane Marple - The Body In The Library (3/12) {owned}
(1930 - ????) *Anne Austin - James "Bonnie" Dundee - The Avenging Parrot (1/?) - {AbeBooks, expensive shipping}
(1930 - 1950) *Leslie Ford (as David Frome) - Mr Pinkerton and Inspector Bull - The Hammersmith Murders (1/11) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1930 - 1935) *"Diplomat" (John Franklin Carter) - Dennis Tyler - Murder In The State Department (1/7) {expensive}
(1930 - 1962) *Helen Reilly - Inspector Christopher McKee - The Diamond Feather (1/31) {AbeBooks, expensive shipping / Rare Books}
(1930 - 1933) *Mary Plum - John Smith - The Killing Of Judge MacFarlane (1/4) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1930 - 1945) *Hulbert Footner - Amos Lee Mappin - The Mystery Of The Folded Paper (aka The Folded Paper Mystery (1/10) {mobilereads / omnibus}
(1930 - 1933) *Monte Barrett - Peter Cardigan - The Pelham Murder Case (1/3) {Amazon}
(1930 - ????) Vernon Loder - Inspector Brews and Ned Hope - The Essex Murders (aka "The Death Pool") (1/?) {Kindle}
(1931 - 1940) Bruce Graeme - Superintendent Stevens and Pierre Allain - The Imperfect Crime (2/8) {owned}
(1931 - 1951) Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Asey Mayo - The Mystery Of The Cape Cod Players (3/24) {AbeBooks / State Library NSW, held}
(1931 - 1955) Stuart Palmer - Hildegarde Withers - Murder On Wheels (2/18) {Kindle?}
(1931 - 1951) Olive Higgins Prouty - The Vale Novels - Now, Voyager (3/5) {interlibrary loan}
(1931 - 1933) Sydney Fowler - Inspector Cleveland - Arresting Delia (4/4) {Book Depository / Rare Books}
(1931 - 1934) J. H. Wallis - Inspector Wilton Jacks - The Capital City Mystery (2/6) {AbeBooks, expensive}
(1931 - ????) Paul McGuire - Inspector Cummings - Daylight Murder (aka "Murder At High Noon") (3/5) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1931 - 1937) Carlton Dawe - Leathermouth - The Sign Of The Glove (2/13) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held}
(1931 - 1947) R. L. Goldman - Asaph Clume and Rufus Reed - The Murder Of Harvey Blake (1/6) {AbeBooks}
(1931 - 1959) E. C. R. Lorac (Edith Caroline Rivett) - Inspector Robert Macdonald - The Murder On The Burrows (1/46) {rare, expensive}
(1931 - ????) Clifton Robbins - Clay Harrison - Dusty Death (1/?) {owned}
(1931 - 1972) Georges Simenon - Inspector Maigret - La Nuit du Carrefour (7/75) {branch transfer}
(1931 - 1934) T. S. Stribling - The Vaiden Trilogy - 1251985::The Store (2/3) {academic loan / State Library, held}
(1931 - 1935) Pearl S. Buck - The House Of Earth - Sons (2/3) {Fisher Library}
(1931 - 1942) R. A. J. Walling - Garstang - 2230672::The Stroke Of One (1/3) {Amazon}
(1931 - ????) Francis Bonnamy (Audrey Boyers Walz) - Peter Utley Shane - Death By Appointment (1/8){AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1932 - 1954) Sydney Fowler - Inspector Cambridge and Mr Jellipot - The Bell Street Murders (1/11) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1932 - 1935) Murray Thomas - Inspector Wilkins - 14385544::Buzzards Pick The Bones (1/3) {AbeBooks, expensive}
(1932 - ????) R. A. J. Walling - Philip Tolefree - Follow The Blue Car (2/?) {expensive}
(1932 - 1962) T. Arthur Plummer - Detective-Inspector Andrew Frampton - 14481205::Shadowed By The C. I. D. (1/50) {unavailable?}
(1932 - 1936) John Victor Turner - Amos Petrie - 14498091::Death Must Have Laughed (1/7) {Rare Books}
(1932 - 1944) Nicholas Brady (John Victor Turner) - Ebenezer Buckle - The House Of Strange Guests (1/4) {unavailable?}
(1932 - 1932) Lizette M. Edholm - The Merriweather Girls - The Merriweather Girls On Campers' Trail (2/4) {ordered}
(1932 - 1933) Barnaby Ross (aka Ellery Queen) - Drury Lane - The Tragedy Of Y (2/4) {Internet Archive / Rare Books}
(1932 - 1952) D. E. Stevenson - Mrs Tim - Mrs Tim Carries On (3/5) {expensive / State Library NSW, held}
(1933 - 1959) John Gordon Brandon - Arthur Stukeley Pennington - West End! (1/?) {AbeBooks / State Library, held}
(1933 - 1940) Lilian Garis - Carol Duncan - The Ghost Of Melody Lane (1/9) {AbeBooks}
(1933 - 1934) Peter Hunt (George Worthing Yates and Charles Hunt Marshall) - Allan Miller - Murders At Scandal House (1/3) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1933 - 1968) John Dickson Carr - Gideon Fell - Hag's Nook (1/23) {Better World Books / State Library NSW, interlibrary loan}
(1933 - 1939) Gregory Dean - Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Simon - The Case Of Marie Corwin (1/3) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1933 - 1956) E. R. Punshon - Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen - Information Received (1/35) {academic loan / State Library NSW, held / Rare Books}
(1933 - 1970) Dennis Wheatley - Duke de Richlieu - The Forbidden Territory (1/11) {Fisher Library}
(1933 - 1934) Jackson Gregory - Paul Savoy - A Case For Mr Paul Savoy (1/3) {AbeBooks / Rare Books}
(1934 - 1936) Storm Jameson - The Mirror In Darkness - Company Parade (1/3) {Fisher Library}
(1934 - 1953) Leslie Ford (Zenith Jones Brown) - Colonel John Primrose and Grace Latham - The Clock Strikes Twelve (aka "The Supreme Court Murder") (NB: novella) {owned}
(1934 - 1949) Richard Goyne - Paul Templeton - Strange Motives (1/13) {unavailable?}
(1934 - 1941) N. A. Temple-Ellis (Nevile Holdaway) - Inspector Wren - Three Went In (1/3) {unavailable?}
(1934 - 1953) Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) - Sir Henry Merivale - The Plague Court Murders (1/22) {Fisher Library}
(1934 - 1968) Dennis Wheatley - Gregory Sallust - Black August (1/11) {interlibrary loan / omnibus}
(1935 - 1939) Francis Beeding - Inspector George Martin - The Norwich Victims (1/3) {AbeBooks / Book Depository / State Library NSW, held}
(1935 - 1976) Nigel Morland - Palmyra Pym - 14407065::The Moon Murders (1/28) {State Library NSW, held}
(1935 - 1941) Clyde Clason - Professor Theocritus Lucius Westborough - The Fifth Tumbler (1/10) {unavailable?}
(1935 - ????) G. D. H. Cole / M. Cole - Dr Tancred - Dr Tancred Begins (1/?) (AbeBooks, expensive / State Library NSW, held / Rare Books}
(1935 - ????) George Harmon Coxe - Kent Murdock - Murder With Pictures (1/22) {AbeBooks}
(1935 - 1959) Kathleen Moore Knight - Elisha Macomber - Death Blew Out The Match (1/16) {AbeBooks / Amazon}
(1936 - 1974) Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Malleson) - Arthur Crook - Murder By Experts (1/51) {interlibrary loan}
(1939 - 1942) Patricia Wentworth - Inspector Ernest Lamb - The Blind Side (1/3) {interlibrary loan / Kindle}
(1947 - 1974) Dennis Wheatley - Roger Brook - The Launching Of Roger Brook (1/12) {Fisher Library storage}
(1953 - 1960) Dennis Wheatley - Molly Fountain and Colonel Verney - To The Devil A Daughter (1/2) {Fisher Library storage}
*** Incompletely available series
** Series complete pre-1931
* Present status pre-1931
9lyzard
Timeline of detective fiction:
Pre-history:
Things As They Are; or, The Adventures Of Caleb Williams by William Godwin (1794)
Mademoiselle de Scudéri by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1819)
Richmond: Scenes In The Life Of A Bow Street Officer by Anonymous (1827)
Memoirs Of Vidocq by Eugene Francois Vidocq (1828)
Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac (1835)
Passages In The Secret History Of An Irish Countess by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1838); The Purcell Papers (1880)
The Murders In The Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (1841, 1842, 1845)
Serials:
The Mysteries Of Paris by Eugene Sue (1842 - 1843)
The Mysteries Of London - Paul Feval (1844) (Internet Archive, R. Stephenson)
The Mysteries Of London - George Reynolds (1844 - 1848)
The Mysteries Of The Court Of London - George Reynolds (1848 - 1856)
John Devil by Paul Feval (1861)
Early detective novels:
Recollections Of A Detective Police-Officer by "Waters" (William Russell) (1856)
The Widow Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau (1866)
Under Lock And Key by T. W. Speight (1869)
Checkmate by J. Sheridan LeFanu (1871)
Is He The Man? by William Clark Russell (1876)
Devlin The Barber by B. J. Farjeon (1888)
Mr Meeson's Will by H. Rider Haggard (1888)
The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume (1889)
The Queen Anne's Gate Mystery by Richard Arkwright (1889)
The Ivory Queen by Norman Hurst (1889) (Check Julius H. Hurst 1899)
The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill (1892)
Female detectives:
The Diary Of Anne Rodway by Wilkie Collins (1856)
The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester (1864)
Revelations Of A Lady Detective by William Stephens Hayward (1864)
The Law And The Lady by Wilkie Collins (1875)
Madeline Payne; or, The Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch (Emma Murdoch Van Deventer) (1884)
Mr Bazalgette's Agent by Leonard Merrick (1888)
Moina; or, Against The Mighty by Lawrence L. Lynch (Emma Murdoch Van Deventer) (sequel to Madeline Payne?) (1891)
The Experiences Of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1893)
Dorcas Dene, Detective by George Sims (1897)
- Amelia Butterworth series by Anna Katharine Grant (1897 - 1900)
Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allan (1899)
Hilda Wade by Grant Allan (1900)
Dora Myrl, The Lady Detective by M. McDonnel Bodkin (1900)
The Investigators by J. S. Fletcher (1902)
Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy (1910)
Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective by Arthur B. Reeve (1913)
Related mainstream works:
Adventures Of Susan Hopley by Catherine Crowe (1841)
Men And Women; or, Manorial Rights by Catherine Crowe (1843)
Hargrave by Frances Trollope (1843)
Clement Lorimer by Angus Reach (1849)
True crime:
Clues: or, Leaves from a Chief Constable's Note Book by Sir William Henderson (1889)
Dreadful Deeds And Awful Murders by Joan Lock
Pre-history:
Serials:
The Mysteries Of London - Paul Feval (1844) (Internet Archive, R. Stephenson)
The Mysteries Of London - George Reynolds (1844 - 1848)
The Mysteries Of The Court Of London - George Reynolds (1848 - 1856)
John Devil by Paul Feval (1861)
Early detective novels:
Recollections Of A Detective Police-Officer by "Waters" (William Russell) (1856)
The Widow Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau (1866)
Under Lock And Key by T. W. Speight (1869)
Checkmate by J. Sheridan LeFanu (1871)
Is He The Man? by William Clark Russell (1876)
Devlin The Barber by B. J. Farjeon (1888)
Mr Meeson's Will by H. Rider Haggard (1888)
The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume (1889)
The Queen Anne's Gate Mystery by Richard Arkwright (1889)
The Ivory Queen by Norman Hurst (1889) (Check Julius H. Hurst 1899)
The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill (1892)
Female detectives:
The Diary Of Anne Rodway by Wilkie Collins (1856)
The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester (1864)
Revelations Of A Lady Detective by William Stephens Hayward (1864)
Madeline Payne; or, The Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch (Emma Murdoch Van Deventer) (1884)
Mr Bazalgette's Agent by Leonard Merrick (1888)
Moina; or, Against The Mighty by Lawrence L. Lynch (Emma Murdoch Van Deventer) (sequel to Madeline Payne?) (1891)
The Experiences Of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1893)
Dorcas Dene, Detective by George Sims (1897)
- Amelia Butterworth series by Anna Katharine Grant (1897 - 1900)
Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allan (1899)
Hilda Wade by Grant Allan (1900)
Dora Myrl, The Lady Detective by M. McDonnel Bodkin (1900)
The Investigators by J. S. Fletcher (1902)
Lady Molly Of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy (1910)
Constance Dunlap, Woman Detective by Arthur B. Reeve (1913)
Related mainstream works:
Hargrave by Frances Trollope (1843)
Clement Lorimer by Angus Reach (1849)
True crime:
Clues: or, Leaves from a Chief Constable's Note Book by Sir William Henderson (1889)
10lyzard
Reading projects 2015:
Blog reads:
Chronobibliography: The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton / Lisarda; or, The Travels Of Love And Jealousy
Authors In Depth: The Black Band by Mary Elizabeth Braddon / The Mother-In-Law by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Reading Roulette: Grasp Your Nettle by Eliza Lynn Linton / The Holy Lover by Marie Conway Oemler
Australian fiction: The Hermit In Van Diemen's Land by Henry Savery
Gothic novel timeline: Miscellaneous Pieces, In Prose by John and Anna Laetitia Aikin
Group / tutored reads:
Completed: Italian Mysteries by Francis Lathom - thread here
Completed: The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope - thread here
Completed: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - thread here
Completed: Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott - thread here
Completed: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth - thread here
Completed: Evelina by Fanny Burney - thread here
Now: Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope - thread here
October??: The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom
November / December: Cecilia by Fanny Burney
The evolution of detective fiction:
Next up: Hargrave by Frances Trollope
Virago chronological reading project:
Next up: Cecilia by Frances Burney
America's best-selling novels (1895 - ????):
Next up: The Crossing by Winston Churchill
Agatha Christie mysteries in chronological order:
Next up: The A. B. C. Murders
Georgette Heyer historical romances in chronological order:
Next up: April Lady
Random reading 1940 - 1969:
Next up: Jenny Devlin by Sophie Kerr / The Blind Side by Patricia Wentworth
Potential decommission:
Next up: Strange Wine by Harlen Ellison
Possible future reading projects:
- Nobel Prize winners who won for fiction
- Daily Telegraph's 100 Best Novels, 1899
- 1898 C.K. Shorter List of Best 100 Novels
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Berkeley "Books Of The Century"
- Mystery League books (and their covers)
- Collins White Circle Crime Club / Green Penguins
- Dell paperbacks
Blog reads:
Chronobibliography: The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton / Lisarda; or, The Travels Of Love And Jealousy
Authors In Depth: The Black Band by Mary Elizabeth Braddon / The Mother-In-Law by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Reading Roulette: Grasp Your Nettle by Eliza Lynn Linton / The Holy Lover by Marie Conway Oemler
Australian fiction: The Hermit In Van Diemen's Land by Henry Savery
Gothic novel timeline: Miscellaneous Pieces, In Prose by John and Anna Laetitia Aikin
Group / tutored reads:
Completed: Italian Mysteries by Francis Lathom - thread here
Completed: The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope - thread here
Completed: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - thread here
Completed: Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott - thread here
Completed: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth - thread here
Completed: Evelina by Fanny Burney - thread here
Now: Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope - thread here
October??: The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom
November / December: Cecilia by Fanny Burney
The evolution of detective fiction:
Next up: Hargrave by Frances Trollope
Virago chronological reading project:
Next up: Cecilia by Frances Burney
America's best-selling novels (1895 - ????):
Next up: The Crossing by Winston Churchill
Agatha Christie mysteries in chronological order:
Next up: The A. B. C. Murders
Georgette Heyer historical romances in chronological order:
Next up: April Lady
Random reading 1940 - 1969:
Next up: Jenny Devlin by Sophie Kerr / The Blind Side by Patricia Wentworth
Potential decommission:
Next up: Strange Wine by Harlen Ellison
Possible future reading projects:
- Nobel Prize winners who won for fiction
- Daily Telegraph's 100 Best Novels, 1899
- 1898 C.K. Shorter List of Best 100 Novels
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Berkeley "Books Of The Century"
- Mystery League books (and their covers)
- Collins White Circle Crime Club / Green Penguins
- Dell paperbacks
13weird_O
Cheers! Kudos on the new thread. I may get a second thread going before the end of the year; I bet it'll be exciting. Are you excited about your new thread?
14lyzard
Hi, Bill - thanks for dropping in!
Making a new thread always forces me to think about my reading, which makes me feel--- I don't know if "excited" is the right word; how about "panicky"? :D
Making a new thread always forces me to think about my reading, which makes me feel--- I don't know if "excited" is the right word; how about "panicky"? :D
15lyzard
Hmm...
The touchstones are being---I shall say, uncooperative...
ETA: Oh, dear. I may finally have reached critical touchstone mass in my "Series" post. Up until now they have always copied across and settled down after a bit, but this time they just won't, though they are fine in other lengthy posts. Next thread I may have to break that post up into two or three sections to get the touchstones to work.
That, or finish a whole bunch of series, without adding any m----
Nah. That's crazy talk.
The touchstones are being---I shall say, uncooperative...
ETA: Oh, dear. I may finally have reached critical touchstone mass in my "Series" post. Up until now they have always copied across and settled down after a bit, but this time they just won't, though they are fine in other lengthy posts. Next thread I may have to break that post up into two or three sections to get the touchstones to work.
That, or finish a whole bunch of series, without adding any m----
Nah. That's crazy talk.
16lkernagh
A new thread AND snow leopards = double joy!
I find that touchstones are usually uncooperative just when you need them.
I find that touchstones are usually uncooperative just when you need them.
17lyzard
Hi, Lori - glad you like my leopards!
They can certainly be annoying but I think the blame for this particular instance of touchstone trouble is on me.
They can certainly be annoying but I think the blame for this particular instance of touchstone trouble is on me.
18souloftherose
Happy new thread and lovely snow leopards!
Going back to the subject of Three Act Tragedy, I've been dipping into John Curran's books about Agatha Christie's working papers and it says in Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making that the motive for the murder in Three Act Tragedy changed between the US and UK editions.
In the US edition Sir Charles is mad and kills Sir Bartholomew because he's worried Sir B is going to put him in an asylum. As well as the ending, some earlier chapters are tweaked to foreshadow this.
It's not clear why the change was made or which was the original edition but the US edition was published first and there's a letter written by AC in the 1970s saying she thinks the US version was the original. But I can't work out why it was changed and Curran doesn't have any suggestions. Personally, I think I prefer the UK version but perhaps that's just because it's the one I know. And I'd love to know if American versions and UK versions are still different today - can you imagine how confusing this would get if we did a group read? Which version was yours?
Going back to the subject of Three Act Tragedy, I've been dipping into John Curran's books about Agatha Christie's working papers and it says in Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making that the motive for the murder in Three Act Tragedy changed between the US and UK editions.
It's not clear why the change was made or which was the original edition but the US edition was published first and there's a letter written by AC in the 1970s saying she thinks the US version was the original. But I can't work out why it was changed and Curran doesn't have any suggestions. Personally, I think I prefer the UK version but perhaps that's just because it's the one I know. And I'd love to know if American versions and UK versions are still different today - can you imagine how confusing this would get if we did a group read? Which version was yours?
19CDVicarage
I'm ready for some more Trollope and looking forward to the Phineas Redux thread.
20lyzard
>18 souloftherose:
Hi, Heather - thanks!
We touched on this on my last thread (or the one before?), and it ties into our other discussion about books being changed to make them "more American":
The point changed is the one about Sir Charles not being able to get a divorce because his wife is insane. That law did not exist in America, so the plot was changed to Sir Bartholomew recognising that Sir Charles was going mad (hereditary?) and him being murdered for that reason. The rest was not touched including the motives for the other murders.
I find this stuff so unnecessary - yes, things are different from how they are in America, in countries that are not America - fancy that!!
We get the UK version of almost everything here, always have. I don't know if two different versions are still extant.
>19 CDVicarage:
Hi, Kerry! Looking forward to having you join us for Phineas Redux. I should be putting up the thread tomorrow night.
Hi, Heather - thanks!
We touched on this on my last thread (or the one before?), and it ties into our other discussion about books being changed to make them "more American":
I find this stuff so unnecessary - yes, things are different from how they are in America, in countries that are not America - fancy that!!
We get the UK version of almost everything here, always have. I don't know if two different versions are still extant.
>19 CDVicarage:
Hi, Kerry! Looking forward to having you join us for Phineas Redux. I should be putting up the thread tomorrow night.
21souloftherose
>20 lyzard: I do remember that conversation as I found it very interesting but I had completely forgotten that it was Three Act Tragedy that kick-started the discussion - sorry! Looking back at your thread I had even 'favourited' the original post (probably to go back to read after I had reread the book to avoid spoilers as I couldn't remember the complete solution). If I had a brain I'd be dangerous....
24Smiler69
Happy New Thread Liz! I'd fallen hopelessly behind on your last one, so taking advantage of this new page to crawl in and admire your new critters. Lovely snow leopards. Happy reading in September!
eta: I think I must have read Death in the Clouds as a teenager back around 1983. You've making me seriously consider a reread...
eta: I think I must have read Death in the Clouds as a teenager back around 1983. You've making me seriously consider a reread...
25kac522
>20 lyzard: I hope this is not asking too much, but do you think on the Phineas Redux thread you could refresh our memories as to how the main characters stood at the end of Phineas Finn? I've been racking my brain & can't remember the fate of Phineas at the end of that book.
26lyzard
>21 souloftherose:
What has me puzzled is that apparently The Moving Finger was quite significantly changed for the American edition. With Three Act Tragedy is was fairly obvious what must have been changed, but with the other I can't imagine.
>22 scaifea:
Hi, Amber - thank you!
>23 Helenliz:
Glad you like my leopards, Helen - thanks for visiting.
>24 Smiler69:
Hi, Ilana! No worries, I haven't had much time for thread visiting lately myself. Thanks for stopping by!
I will probably be listing Death In The Clouds for the "Golden Age Mystery" challenge, if you would care to join me...?
>25 kac522:
Kathy, I think you'll find that Trollope himself does all that's necessary in that respect: the first few chapters of Phineas Redux are given over to reminding us where we left off and telling us what's happened in the meantime, as well as setting up the new circumstances of the plot. Why don't you just start and see how you go with it? - if you still don't remember, feel free to ask.
What has me puzzled is that apparently The Moving Finger was quite significantly changed for the American edition. With Three Act Tragedy is was fairly obvious what must have been changed, but with the other I can't imagine.
>22 scaifea:
Hi, Amber - thank you!
>23 Helenliz:
Glad you like my leopards, Helen - thanks for visiting.
>24 Smiler69:
Hi, Ilana! No worries, I haven't had much time for thread visiting lately myself. Thanks for stopping by!
I will probably be listing Death In The Clouds for the "Golden Age Mystery" challenge, if you would care to join me...?
>25 kac522:
Kathy, I think you'll find that Trollope himself does all that's necessary in that respect: the first few chapters of Phineas Redux are given over to reminding us where we left off and telling us what's happened in the meantime, as well as setting up the new circumstances of the plot. Why don't you just start and see how you go with it? - if you still don't remember, feel free to ask.
29Matke
Hah!
It helps that I have it on kindle; holding those thick books is getting a bit difficult.
It helps that I have it on kindle; holding those thick books is getting a bit difficult.
30rosalita
Aren't snow leopards just the prettiest kitties? Happy sigh.
Give the touchstones another try tomorrow. Back when I had a thread I would sometimes get uncooperative posts and almost always when I came back later they would pop in just fine (eventually; it can take a while for the system to churn through a long list to generate the 'stones).
Give the touchstones another try tomorrow. Back when I had a thread I would sometimes get uncooperative posts and almost always when I came back later they would pop in just fine (eventually; it can take a while for the system to churn through a long list to generate the 'stones).
31lyzard
>29 Matke:
Groan, don't I know it! I have a copy with a really tight spine; it requires two hands and a lot of muscle-flexing. :)
>30 rosalita:
Hi, Julia - yes, they are gorgeous. :)
The touchstones are generating, but not saving when I save. I'm re-testing periodically but I'm pretty sure I've just pushed them too far this time.
Groan, don't I know it! I have a copy with a really tight spine; it requires two hands and a lot of muscle-flexing. :)
>30 rosalita:
Hi, Julia - yes, they are gorgeous. :)
The touchstones are generating, but not saving when I save. I'm re-testing periodically but I'm pretty sure I've just pushed them too far this time.
32rosalita
>31 lyzard: Oh, I see. I misunderstood the problem, probably too much skim-reading (skeading?). I don't think I've ever had that problem, where the list of touchstones got generated on the side but then didn't save. Or I don't remember it, anyway, which isn't really the same thing.
I do remember talk about there being a "tipping point" of too many touchstones in a single post. Considering how temperamental the darn things are anyway with linking to completely inappropriate titles, it seems unfair that they would also be prima donnas about quantity as well.
I do remember talk about there being a "tipping point" of too many touchstones in a single post. Considering how temperamental the darn things are anyway with linking to completely inappropriate titles, it seems unfair that they would also be prima donnas about quantity as well.
37Smiler69
>26 lyzard: I've ordered Death in the Clouds from the library. Now to see whether I manage to fit it in this month... another story altogether! :-)
39lyzard
Yay! I finally managed to read, review and return three of my stack of library books!...
...aaaaaand promptly came away with six more.
(One of which is all Heather's fault...)
...aaaaaand promptly came away with six more.
(One of which is all Heather's fault...)
40swynn
>39 lyzard: I sympathize with you, Liz. I call that situation "Monday." (Well, not blaming Heather but the rest of it ... yeah.)
41lyzard
I call blaming Heather "Wednesday". :D
This was supposed to be the month for clearing the decks of on-loan-forever library books, not doubling the pile, sigh...
This was supposed to be the month for clearing the decks of on-loan-forever library books, not doubling the pile, sigh...
42souloftherose
>39 lyzard: '(One of which is all Heather's fault...)'
I feel I should apologise but my reaction is really 'yay!' What was it?
>40 swynn:, >41 lyzard: I'll only accept blame for things on one day of the week (hmm - I should probably stick that up above my desk at work).
I feel I should apologise but my reaction is really 'yay!' What was it?
>40 swynn:, >41 lyzard: I'll only accept blame for things on one day of the week (hmm - I should probably stick that up above my desk at work).
43lyzard
I should probably stick that up above my desk at work
Hear, hear! :D
In the wake of our conversation about where to go for information about 19th century religion, I ended up re-borrowing the other book on the 19th century religious novel, Margaret Maison's Search Your Soul, Eustace, which is a much more facetious take on the same subject matter as Joseph Ellis Baker's The Novel And The Oxford Movement. It's a re-re-read, which I didn't really need at the moment...and it's all your fault!
ETA: The other other book in this area is Robert Lee Wolff's Gains And Losses, which I haven't read yet but (like the other two) will probably end up blog material.
Hear, hear! :D
In the wake of our conversation about where to go for information about 19th century religion, I ended up re-borrowing the other book on the 19th century religious novel, Margaret Maison's Search Your Soul, Eustace, which is a much more facetious take on the same subject matter as Joseph Ellis Baker's The Novel And The Oxford Movement. It's a re-re-read, which I didn't really need at the moment...and it's all your fault!
ETA: The other other book in this area is Robert Lee Wolff's Gains And Losses, which I haven't read yet but (like the other two) will probably end up blog material.
45lyzard
My OCD finally drove me to try and sort out the series listing of D. E. Stevenson's "Mrs Tim" books, which has been complicated by the long-term merging of the first two books in the series, the re-use of titles, and the re-use of covers - grr!
Mrs Tim Of The Regiment and Golden Days, the first two books in the series, were originally published as standalone works in 1932 and 1934, respectively. Research reveals that the first merging of the two was the US first edition of 1940, published by Farrar & Rinehart as Mrs Tim Of The Regiment. The US omnibus edition was reissued in 1973 as Mrs Tim Christie.
In 1941, Collins acquired the British rights to both works and also released an omnibus under the title Mrs Tim: Leaves From The Diary Of An Officer's Wife. This has been the "standard" edition until recently, when Bloomsbury (most unhelpfully!) re-released it as Mrs Tim Of The Regiment.
However, also recently, the original novels were separated for the first time since 1940 and reissued in large print format as Mrs Tim Of The Regiment and Golden Days, by Isis Publishing.
I don't know whether Bloomsbury and Isis are connected, but if they're not, something weird is going on.
Here is the Bloomsbury omnibus cover:
And here is the Isis single-work cover:
That's right, folks: these are two different books.
Not to sound paranoid or anything, but truly it does sometimes feel as if these things are done just to push all my buttons...
Mrs Tim Of The Regiment and Golden Days, the first two books in the series, were originally published as standalone works in 1932 and 1934, respectively. Research reveals that the first merging of the two was the US first edition of 1940, published by Farrar & Rinehart as Mrs Tim Of The Regiment. The US omnibus edition was reissued in 1973 as Mrs Tim Christie.
In 1941, Collins acquired the British rights to both works and also released an omnibus under the title Mrs Tim: Leaves From The Diary Of An Officer's Wife. This has been the "standard" edition until recently, when Bloomsbury (most unhelpfully!) re-released it as Mrs Tim Of The Regiment.
However, also recently, the original novels were separated for the first time since 1940 and reissued in large print format as Mrs Tim Of The Regiment and Golden Days, by Isis Publishing.
I don't know whether Bloomsbury and Isis are connected, but if they're not, something weird is going on.
Here is the Bloomsbury omnibus cover:
And here is the Isis single-work cover:
That's right, folks: these are two different books.
Not to sound paranoid or anything, but truly it does sometimes feel as if these things are done just to push all my buttons...
46BonnieJune54
>45 lyzard: Good Heavens!
47lyzard
Hi, Bonnie - thanks so much for dropping in!
I know it's pretty sad, but such is my psychology that if I see a tangle like that, I just have to pick it apart... :)
I know it's pretty sad, but such is my psychology that if I see a tangle like that, I just have to pick it apart... :)
48Matke
>45 lyzard: Now that's weird. Your reaction, on the other hand, seems eminently sane and sober.
50lyzard
Well! They say you learn something new every day, and I guess it's true.
Until today I didn't know there was such a thing as gay shape-shifting cuttlefish erotica.
Until today I didn't know there was such a thing as gay shape-shifting cuttlefish erotica.
51drneutron
>50 lyzard: Well, how about that... :)
53lyzard
>51 drneutron:
Oh-ho! So now I know how to get a visit from you, do I, Jim? :D
>52 rosalita:
Thanks, but no thanks: in my near reading future I have a historical romance about the love life of John Wesley, and that's as far as I care to go in the "Ew, what!?" direction.
Oh-ho! So now I know how to get a visit from you, do I, Jim? :D
>52 rosalita:
Thanks, but no thanks: in my near reading future I have a historical romance about the love life of John Wesley, and that's as far as I care to go in the "Ew, what!?" direction.
54lyzard
Finished Golden Days for TIOLI #9.
Now reading Lisa Vale by Olive Higgins Prouty. (No, not The Bookseller of Kabul - stop that, you evil touchstones!)
Now reading Lisa Vale by Olive Higgins Prouty. (No, not The Bookseller of Kabul - stop that, you evil touchstones!)
55lyzard
...and yee-ouch! Why are copies of Mrs Tim Carries On so obscenely expensive!?
57thornton37814
I'm running a few days behind, but I love the snow leopards atop the thread!
58Matke
>49 lyzard: Clearly we are sisters.
>50 lyzard: Really? I am not exploring that.
>53 lyzard: John Wesley had a love life? Who knew?
>50 lyzard: Really? I am not exploring that.
>53 lyzard: John Wesley had a love life? Who knew?
59lyzard
>57 thornton37814:
Hi, Lori - thanks! :)
>58 Matke:
Hey, sis! :D
No, I'm not exploring it either, merely noting its existence!
I'll have to report back later as to the degree of historical accuracy...
Hi, Lori - thanks! :)
>58 Matke:
Hey, sis! :D
No, I'm not exploring it either, merely noting its existence!
I'll have to report back later as to the degree of historical accuracy...
60souloftherose
>45 lyzard: Good work! I've added disambiguation notices to the different editions which will hopefully stop someone accidentally combining them again.
'I don't know whether Bloomsbury and Isis are connected'
I don't think they are. I think Isis get the rights to publish audio/large print books from a variety of different publishers and presumably that includes the current covers which they just reuse. Of course, in this case that just adds to the confusion.
>55 lyzard: I'm thankful my library system had a copy even if it does have an awful cover. As I mentioned before, the cover design (for this 1989 reprint) seems strikingly inappropriate for a book published in 1941 and set in 1940:
'I don't know whether Bloomsbury and Isis are connected'
I don't think they are. I think Isis get the rights to publish audio/large print books from a variety of different publishers and presumably that includes the current covers which they just reuse. Of course, in this case that just adds to the confusion.
>55 lyzard: I'm thankful my library system had a copy even if it does have an awful cover. As I mentioned before, the cover design (for this 1989 reprint) seems strikingly inappropriate for a book published in 1941 and set in 1940:
61lyzard
WHAT - THE - HELL!!??
Ew. :(
But at least you can have access: we have no library copies here, so I have the choice of skipping it or shelling out - :( again.
Thank you for the disambiguation notices. I ended up having to delete Mrs Tim Of The Regiment and then add it again, to make it work with my rearrangements.
I haven't encountered Isis before - that's interesting, thanks!
Ew. :(
But at least you can have access: we have no library copies here, so I have the choice of skipping it or shelling out - :( again.
Thank you for the disambiguation notices. I ended up having to delete Mrs Tim Of The Regiment and then add it again, to make it work with my rearrangements.
I haven't encountered Isis before - that's interesting, thanks!
62lyzard
Hmm, well. I do usually put the group-read books aside for a bit and not review them until after the group read is done with. The last time that meant putting aside for longer than usual, since I was hoping we'd hear from a few more stragglers...
...and then I forgot. :)
...and then I forgot. :)
63lyzard
Evelina; or, The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World - Evelina, known as "Miss Anville", is a girl in an anomalous position: her father, Sir John Belmont, repudiated his secret marriage to her mother who, dying shortly after the birth of her child, left the girl to the care of the Reverend Arthur Villars. When Evelina is seventeen, Mr Villars reluctantly permits her to accompany friends to London. As she navigates the pleasures and dangers of society, Evelina's situation is complicated by the reappearance of her long-neglectful grandmother, Madame Duval, who in addition to claiming her legal right to the girl, intends to try and force Sir John Belmont to acknowledge Evelina as his daughter... Frances Burney's 1778 epistolary novel is a landmark work in the development of women's fiction, the first to suggest that the daily events of a young woman's life were sufficient material for a novel and a major influence upon many female novelists to follow---not least Jane Austen, whose expresses her admiration for Burney throughout her own novels. Burney's real stroke of genius in Evelina is separating her heroine from her strict and morally upright guardian, which allows the narrative, via Mr Villars' letters, to retain the didacticism demanded in any novel intended for a female audience (although in fact, Evelina was read by everyone), while in practice leaving the naïve and impulsive Evelina to her own faulty judgement, since Mr Villars' advice invariably arrives too late to be of any practical use to her. Evelina's own letters to her guardian offer to the modern reader a treasure-trove of details about 18th century life and behaviour. Caught between the aristocratic Lady Howard and the frankly vulgar Madame Duval, Evelina is exposed to all aspects of society, its splendours and its crudities alike; while her tendency to act first and think later causes her no end of embarrassment, and sometimes leads her literally into danger. The impression left by this novel is of a society where violence was a way of life, and where unprotected girls were at constant threat of harassment, if not much worse. Evelina's beauty attracts two men, the selfish Sir Clement Willoughby, only too willing to believe that her erratic conduct indicates a hidden lack of morals, and the thoughtful Lord Orville, who sees that her blunders are no more than innocent mistakes, but knows too what the consequences of her unguarded actions could be. The prominence of Lord Orville in Evelina's letters home reveals the state of her heart to Mr Villars who, knowing that her uncertain position must damage her marital prospects, sees only heartbreak in store for her---particularly when Sir John Belmont returns to England, accompanied by his daughter and heiress, Miss Belmont...
They tell me that London is now in full splendour. Two playhouses are open,---the Opera-house,---Ranelagh,---and the Pantheon. You see I have learned all their names. However, pray don't suppose that I make any point of going, for I shall hardly sigh, to see them depart without me, though I shall probably never meet with such another opportunity...
I believe I am bewitched! I made a resolution, when I began, that I would not be urgent; but my pen---or rather my thoughts, will not suffer me to keep it---for I acknowledge, I must acknowledge, I cannot help wishing for your permission. I almost repent already that I have made this confession; pray forget that you have read it, if this journey is displeasing to you. But I will not write any longer; for the more I think of this affair, the less indifferent to it I find myself.
Adieu, my most honoured, most reverenced, most beloved father! for by what other name can I call you? I have no happiness or sorrow, no hope or fear, but what your kindness bestows, or your displeasure may cause. You will not, I am sure, send a refusal without reasons unanswerable, and therefore I shall cheerfully acquiesce. Yet I hope---I hope you will be able to permit me to go! I am, with the utmost affection, gratitude, and duty, your EVELINA.
64lyzard
...and having finally taken care of Evelina, this seems like a good opportunity to announce that in November, Heather and I will be tackling Burney's second novel, Cecilia, for our "Virago Chronological Challenge".
As always, we would love to have company, but for anyone thinking of joining in, please be aware that Cecilia is a CHUNKSTER, and that there is a good chance of the read rolling over into December.
As always, we would love to have company, but for anyone thinking of joining in, please be aware that Cecilia is a CHUNKSTER, and that there is a good chance of the read rolling over into December.
65lyzard
So I upgraded my phone, and have been trying to work out the camera using a most uncooperative model.
As a result I have a lot of pictures like this:
I quite like this one, though - I call it Startled Cat With Books:
Much better---and she looks rather regal, lying on my purple dressing-gown:
But I like this one best:
As a result I have a lot of pictures like this:
I quite like this one, though - I call it Startled Cat With Books:
Much better---and she looks rather regal, lying on my purple dressing-gown:
But I like this one best:
66ronincats
Animal photography is definitely an art! I have lots of shots like that. She's a gorgeous girl, though.
67lyzard
Hi, Roni - yes, I think so too. But unfortunately she likes having her picture taken about as much as I do! :)
68lyzard
Golden Days: Further Leaves From Mrs Tim's Journal - The second book in D. E. Stevenson's "Mrs Tim" series finds Hester Christie joining her new friend Mrs Loudon for a fortnight at her home in the Highlands, a chance for her to see "the real Scotland" after her rather depressing but mercifully brief tenure in the town of Kiltwinkle. Although it retains the format of breaking up the text into a daily journal, Golden Days otherwise drops the diary format used in Mrs Tim Of The Regiment, and offers a more conventional first-person narrative. Again, however, we find in this work a blending of humour with passages of more emotional depth, as with her usual capacity for enjoyment, Hester throws herself into the new experiences offered by her holiday, and opens herself up to the glories of her surroundings. Sensitive to the beauties of nature, Hester's descriptions of the Scottish countryside and of the coast are heartfelt and evocative; she is also moved by tales of the area's feudal history, and its lingering superstitions. Nevertheless, Hester's visit with Mrs Loudon is not the unalloyed pleasure she had anticipated: also visiting are a widowed cousin, Mrs Falconer, whose non-stop chatter may or may not mask a shrewd intelligence (Stevenson makes Hester a great admirer of Jane Austen, and it is hard not to feel that Mrs Falconer is related to Emma's Miss Bates), and Mrs Loudon's son, Guthrie, who to his mother's horror has involved himself with a most unsuitable young woman. Much to Hester's indignation, she learns that one reason she was invited was to act as a counterattraction for Guthrie: a scheme which turns out more successfully than Hester is comfortable with. When Major Tony Malloy, whose own interest in Hester is very evident to the reader, if not perhaps to Hester herself, also becomes a frequent visitor, an emotional tangle begins to develop---one which is further complicated when Hester and Major Malloy find themselves mixed up in the modern version of the traditional feud between the area's two opposing clans...
We climb a long, steep hill, and stop for a moment at the top. Far below us lies the sea, shimmering in the sunlit mist. It holds my eyes to the exclusion of all else as the sea always must. The sun is piercing the mist with golden beams, making it opalescent as a rainbow...
Now we are running slowly down the hill to the sea's edge... Turf of emerald brightness, starred with tiny flowers, edges the bay, and stretches back to the hills, where the young larches stand in patterns of pale green flame against the smoky shadows of the pines. The sea is trembling as the mist lifts and eddies, the gleaming patches of sunlight spread and merge, and the surface is ruffled by a faint breeze from the west. Far off, and blue in the haze, float the tall forms of island, some rugged and sterile, others crowded with trees to the water's edge. Just at our feet a spit of silvery sand runs out into the shimmering water...
69lyzard
Bath Tangle - When the Lady Serena Carlow learns that her father, the late Earl of Spenborough, has left her fortune in trust to the Marquis of Rotherham, with a further proviso that he must consent to her marriage, she is furious---not least because she was once engaged to Rotherham, and scandalously broke things off only weeks before the wedding. Both recognising this arrangement as a ploy to reunite them, and each wanting nothing less, Serena and Rotherham can only agree to make the best of an awkward situation. In company with her gentle, timid step-mother, who is several years her junior, Serena withdraws to Bath, a resort whose staid activities are considered suitable for two ladies in mourning. Serena is bored and frustrated with her restricted life---at least until she encounters Major Hector Kirkby, who courted her when she was first a debutante but was dismissed by the Earl due to his lack of both family and fortune. Swept off her feet, Serena plunges into an engagement with Major Kirkby; and it is not until word reaches her that Rotherham, too, is engaged, to Emily Laleham, a pretty but foolish girl nearly twenty years his junior, that it occurs to her that she may have made a mistake... While one of the abiding pleasures of Georgette Heyer's historical fiction is the way in which she plays with the convention of the genre, I'm not sure she ever wrote a more anti-romantic "romance" than this 1955 publication, not drew a less loving pair of lovers than Serena and Rotherham, both of them autocratic and hot-temptered---though we may well believe that neither one is able to get the other out of their system. The two impulsive engagements, however, create an untenable barrier between them: Serena may break hers or not, as she chooses, but Rotherham, as a gentleman, must stand by his. When the young Lady Spenborough finds herself drawn to Major Kirkby, and when Rotherham's ward, Gerard Monksleigh, accuses him of stealing the girl he loves and makes up his mind to elope with Emily, the resulting emotional and social tangle is one that can only be resolved via some exceedingly drastic action... The series of confrontations that form the climax of Bath Tangle, through which its various emotional cross-purposes are sorted out, comprises some of Heyer's cleverest writing - particularly the showdown between Rotherham and the eccentric Mrs Floore (one of my favourite of Heyer's supporting characters) - and helps to counterbalance the somewhat harsh tone of the novel overall---which, if it resists providing many of the usual comforts of the romance, at least leaves the reader feeling that everyone has got pretty much what they deserved...
Fanny sprang up. "Serena? Oh, thank God! Oh, what a relief!"
She then shrank instinctively towards the Major, for the look Rotherham turned on her was bright and menacing. "Don't thank God too soon, Lady Spenborough! Serena is in a great deal more danger now than she has been all day, believe me!"
"No, no, stop!" she cried. "What are you going to do to here?"
"Murder her!" he said, through shut teeth, and went hastily out of the room...
"Hector, go after him!" Fanny said urgently. "His face--- Oh, he looked like a fiend! Heaven knows what he may do in such a wicked passion! You must do something! Hector, it is your duty to protect Serena!"
"So I might, if I thought she stood in peril of her life," he replied, laughing. "What I do think is that I should make a very bad third in that quarrel!"
71Matke
>70 lyzard: Is that head without a body? Really, Liz...
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Evalina (okay, the touchstone goes to Soviet Textile Design of the Revolutionary Period. Honestly!) sounds good. I believe there's a copy at the Friends of the Library Bookstore waiting for me...
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Evalina (okay, the touchstone goes to Soviet Textile Design of the Revolutionary Period. Honestly!) sounds good. I believe there's a copy at the Friends of the Library Bookstore waiting for me...
72rosalita
>70 lyzard: Liz, a create of uncontrollable compulsions ... to read series in order!
Sounds about right. Although I also am concerned about the bodyless head you are cradling in that illustration.
Sounds about right. Although I also am concerned about the bodyless head you are cradling in that illustration.
73Helenliz
>70 lyzard: I think most of us have a mental image of people we communicate with online. It can be massively wrong, but I never had you looking at all like that, Liz. How wrong can you be... What are you doing to him? Trying to take his toupee off, by the looks of the hand gripping the hair!
74lyzard
I bet the people who bought that were disappointed when they discovered it was about a woman who can't control her book-buying.
>71 Matke:
It's Ev'e'lina, Gail - for once we can't blame the touchstones! :)
I'll be very interested to hear your reaction to it.
>72 rosalita:
Ehhh, he tried to tell me that it doesn't matter whether you read series works in sequence or not...he DESERVED to die!
>73 Helenliz:
I'm suggesting to him gently that next time, he might want to refrain from telling me whodunit...
>71 Matke:
It's Ev'e'lina, Gail - for once we can't blame the touchstones! :)
I'll be very interested to hear your reaction to it.
>72 rosalita:
Ehhh, he tried to tell me that it doesn't matter whether you read series works in sequence or not...he DESERVED to die!
>73 Helenliz:
I'm suggesting to him gently that next time, he might want to refrain from telling me whodunit...
75lyzard
Tish Plays The Game - Published in 1926, the fourth entry in Mary Roberts Rinehart's series about the indefatigable Letitia 'Tish' Carberry collects five quite lengthy stories, two of which at least have alarming implications. Tish has always been a great believer in the end justifying the means, but by this point in her adventures she seems to have developed a ruthless streak that manifests in dirty tricks and outright cheating; while Aggie and Lizzie (particularly the latter, who narrates) take on the role of Tish's enablers / excusers. This is not to say that the stories aren't funny, rather that they tend to carry a sting in the tail. In the title story, Tish - not for the first time - determines to bring together a pair of young lovers at odds. In this case, the bone of contention is that Nettie Lynn is a champion golfer, who puts aside thoughts of romance to pursue her career. Her sympathies with the neglected Bobby Anderson prompt Tish to combat Nettie's ambition the only way she knows how: by learning golf herself, and knocking Nettie off her perch... In The Baby Blimp, Tish's disgust with Hollywood's focus upon sex prompts her to write a stirring adventure story - one with no love interest at all. To everyone's amazement, she not only sells her screenplay but is signed to play the lead role and to do her own stunts. She also makes friends with the studio's tame elephant, and learns to fly a blimp - sort of - before being introduced to the concept of "the Hollywood ending"... In Hijack And The Game, Tish's strong support of prohibition leads her to take on a gang of bootleggers, a choice which places herself and her friends in significant peril---although not, perhaps, as much peril as the mortifying discovery that a second gang has tricked the ladies into running their illicit liquor for them... In The Treasure Hunt, Tish is determined to win the prize in the local charity treasure hunt at all cost - at all cost - and if she manages along the way to capture the burglars who have been terrorising the neighbourhood, so much the better... In The Gray Goose, confronted with the Jack Sprat-like relationship of Aggie's cousin, Will Hartford, and his wife, Emmie---the former fretting himself into an early grave over his beloved wife's mysterious ill health, the latter even more mysteriously maintaining her weight and looks despite apparently rejecting all food---Tish interferes with a vengeance...
We had barely missed the roof of the First National Bank Building when the blimp gave a terrific jar, and momentarily stopped. On looking over the side the cause of this was explained. Katie had landed squarely on the flat roof of the building, and had immediately thrown her trunk around a chimney and braced herself. Even as we looked, her harness parted and left her free of us. Katie was saved.
Glancing again over the side as we quickly rose, we could see her in the moonlight still hugging her chimney and gazing after us. What thoughts were hers we cannot know.
I am glad to solve in this manner a problem which caused much perplexity throughout the country---namely, how an elephant could have reached the roof of the First National Bank Building, to which the only possible entrance was through a trapdoor two feet six inches each way. As will be seen, the explanation, like that of many mysteries, is entirely simple...
76lyzard
Finished Men And Women; or, Manorial Rights for TIOLI #3.
Now reading Bricks And Mortar by Helen Ashton.
Now reading Bricks And Mortar by Helen Ashton.
77lyzard
The Sinister Mark - When Donald Van Loo Morris confesses his love to the beautiful and successful actress, Mary Blake, the effect is unexpected: Mary is thrilled and grateful, yet at the same time dismayed; the sense Donald has always had of grave trouble in her life - or a secret in her past - grows even stronger. When Donald receives a letter from Mary telling him that she has gone away but giving no details, he rushes impulsively to her apartment, hopeful of learning something from her sister, Anne, with whom Mary lives. She is not there either---but caught in the door is a white silk scarf that Donald recognises as Mary's: it is stained with blood; while inside, the apartment has been ransacked... Donald hires Peter Clancy, begging him to find Mary---though under Peter's questioning, he must confess that he knows very little about her: nothing about her family, or where she came from; not even her real name, though it is not "Mary Blake". Peter's early investigation focuses on Anne, who he learns was reclusive due to a disfiguring birthmark on her face. According to her letter, Mary left early on Sunday morning; evidence shows that Anne left the following day, taking with her a trunk that was unusually heavy... This fifth book in Lee Thayer's long-running series featuring private investigator Peter Clancy is a frustrating work that offers some interesting and rather refreshing story twists, but undermines them via attitudes veering from the annoying to the offensive. It is also one of the many American novels of this period - The Sinister Mark was published in 1923 - to suggest that there was an awful lot of class snobbery in "classless" America. Thus, the wealthy and prominent Donald Morris struggles long and hard against his attraction to an actress - an attraction excused in the text via reference to "a sporadic mésalliance" amongst his forebears - while later, he will hesitate before introducing Peter, a former policeman, to his sister. All this is amusing enough, but other aspects of the novel are not---least of all the presence of an embarrassingly stereotypical Italian, and the frequent use of racial slurs. (Given how the Irish were often treated, you'd think Peter wouldn't be so quick with the invective.) Also exasperating is the novel's suggestion that any woman less than perfectly beautiful can't really expect to be loved: a stance that the novel backs away from in a manner even more annoying than the initial contention. (I hate "sacrifices" that aren't actually sacrifices...) However, in spite of these disappointments, The Sinister Mark has quite a lot to offer at the story level, even though the plot turns upon a medical improbability or two. Peter's pursuit of the Blake sisters leads him into some very unexpected territory, both geographically and psychologically, and to the difficult task of unearthing long-buried secrets. His investigation convinces him that the key to the mystery is the relationship between the sisters---and that to solve the disappearance of Mary, he must find Anne...
Though he did not say so, Peter knew full well that Walter Lord had taken pains to keep an eye on the children of Anne Blakeslie. "They were interesting children, very interesting. All children and young people are, of course; but these two were more so than any I ever came in contact with. Rosamund was beautiful beyond anything I, or anybody, ever saw, I think. I used to delight in taking pictures of her. I could show you a dozen up in the gallery. And she was always more than glad to sit for me. She knew pretty well how she looked. Didn't need any one to tell her, and who could blame anything so lovely? Might as well blame a water-lily that looks at itself all day in a pond... But Anne, poor little Anne---she was always my favourite."
Peter glanced up in surprise. That Anne Blake should have appealed, even as a child, to any one, least of all to this gentle, sweet old chap, was a decidedly new thought...
78lyzard
August reading stats:
Works read:
TIOLI: 16, in 8 different challenges
Mystery / thriller: 9
Historical romance: 2
Humour: 2
Contemporary drama: 1
Western: 1
Classic: 1
Series works: 11
Blog reads: 1
1932: 3
Virago / Persephone: 0
Potential decommission: 0
Owned: 8
Library: 6
Ebook: 2
Male : female : anonymous authors: 6 : 10* : 1
(*including one with a male pseudonym)
Oldest work: The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton by Anonymous (1689)
Newest work: Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer (1955)
Works read:
TIOLI: 16, in 8 different challenges
Mystery / thriller: 9
Historical romance: 2
Humour: 2
Contemporary drama: 1
Western: 1
Classic: 1
Series works: 11
Blog reads: 1
1932: 3
Virago / Persephone: 0
Potential decommission: 0
Owned: 8
Library: 6
Ebook: 2
Male : female : anonymous authors: 6 : 10* : 1
(*including one with a male pseudonym)
Oldest work: The Famous And Renowned History Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton by Anonymous (1689)
Newest work: Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer (1955)
79lyzard
August was my equal best reading month with 16 books completed, and in recognition of that we have---
---A SMILING SLOTH!!
---A SMILING SLOTH!!
80rosalita
Have you ever noticed how sloths always look like they know something you don't know?
And in my merriment over the cover of Liz: A Creature of Uncontrollable Passions*, I neglected to mention that your kitty in >65 lyzard: is even adorable to non-cat people. I especially like the picture of her posing in front of the window (door?).
* That touchstone doesn't work, of course, but I was amused at the sheer number of books with the name Liz in the title. Liz Sorts It Out seemed the most appropriate for your thread.
And in my merriment over the cover of Liz: A Creature of Uncontrollable Passions*, I neglected to mention that your kitty in >65 lyzard: is even adorable to non-cat people. I especially like the picture of her posing in front of the window (door?).
* That touchstone doesn't work, of course, but I was amused at the sheer number of books with the name Liz in the title. Liz Sorts It Out seemed the most appropriate for your thread.
81lyzard
Why, Julia! - fancy seeing you here just now! :D
Sloths find my obsession over details hilarious...
Was not aware of Liz Sorts It Out, but yes, only TOO appropriate!!
Aww, I thank you and Kara thanks you. I am trying to get a natural-light picture that captures the lovely jadey-green of her eyes, but she isn't being very helpful. The one near the door is the closest I've got (in most of the others, the flash went off), so yes, I like that one too. :)
Sloths find my obsession over details hilarious...
Was not aware of Liz Sorts It Out, but yes, only TOO appropriate!!
Aww, I thank you and Kara thanks you. I am trying to get a natural-light picture that captures the lovely jadey-green of her eyes, but she isn't being very helpful. The one near the door is the closest I've got (in most of the others, the flash went off), so yes, I like that one too. :)
82rosalita
I wish I could set up an alert on your thread that would let me know whenever a sloth picture was posted. Instead I'm left to mere chance and perhaps some sort of internal telepathy across continents. :-)
The purple towel also brings out the green in Kara's eyes. She should try to always walk around with that so she can set up for a glamour shot at any moment. :-)
The purple towel also brings out the green in Kara's eyes. She should try to always walk around with that so she can set up for a glamour shot at any moment. :-)
83lyzard
Seems to me you manage very nicely without an alert! :)
I'm pretty sure she thinks that everything she does sets up a glamour shot...
I'm pretty sure she thinks that everything she does sets up a glamour shot...
87lyzard
...in fact, it is fascinating to note how many of the bad girls in 50s paperback cover art are red-heads.
Perhaps I should do a "season" of these covers. I'm sure Heather would love it...
Perhaps I should do a "season" of these covers. I'm sure Heather would love it...
88swynn
>86 lyzard: The secret life of J. Jonah Jameson ....
89rosalita
>86 lyzard: That'll do it! I love how women on these types of covers always have to contort themselves into ridiculous positions just so their breasts can be pointing forward the reader's face at all times.
90casvelyn
The redhead is going to kill the patient (the brunette) with the thermometer and steal her husband (bathrobe guy). Hence the bedridden swooning.
91lyzard
>88 swynn:
And this is him not being a hero?
>89 rosalita:
Oh, there are some much more skilful contortionists out there than our current red-head! :)
>90 casvelyn:
Ah! Yes, that's certainly one possible reading. Mine is that's she's about to jab that guy in the eye with it, as a hint he should get his nose out of her eye.
And this is him not being a hero?
>89 rosalita:
Oh, there are some much more skilful contortionists out there than our current red-head! :)
>90 casvelyn:
Ah! Yes, that's certainly one possible reading. Mine is that's she's about to jab that guy in the eye with it, as a hint he should get his nose out of her eye.
92casvelyn
>91 lyzard: Looking at the blurb across the top, I'm going to revise my analysis in favor of bathrobe guy cheating on redhead with swooning brunette and now redhead is getting her revenge--she loved but never lost indeed!
Hey, this is kind of fun! :)
Hey, this is kind of fun! :)
93lyzard
I'm taking that as a vote that I do go ahead with my suggested "Season Of Wicked Redheads". :)
94swynn
>91 lyzard: It's him unwinding after a long day of battling that wall-crawling menace Spiderman.
96lyzard
It's interesting---the more 50s cover art I look at, the more it becomes obvious that red hair was very frequently used as a signifier at the time---red-heads and blondes are all over the crime and mystery fiction of the time, with brunettes getting shunted over to westerns and conventional romances. Blondes are used in a way that suggests "victim", while red hair indicates "bad girl"...either in the sense of being mixed up in crime herself, or in the sense of, ahem, "unbridled passions", as one cover blurb puts it. Red hair = sexy times. :)
97souloftherose
Hi Liz!
>63 lyzard: 'The impression left by this novel is of a society where violence was a way of life, and where unprotected girls were at constant threat of harassment, if not much worse.' Good summing up of Evelina and this aspect of the novel particularly struck me too.
>65 lyzard: Love the cat photos! My cat will instantly cease whatever cute/amusing pose she's in as soon as I point a camera at her.
>70 lyzard: Yowzer!
>74 lyzard: 'I bet the people who bought that were disappointed when they discovered it was about a woman who can't control her book-buying...'
*snork*
>79 lyzard: The smiling sloth makes me smile too :-)
>87 lyzard: 'Perhaps I should do a "season" of these covers. I'm sure Heather would love it...' As long as I could steal them and use them as thread toppers next year!
>96 lyzard: I'm not even sure which hair colour is getting the worst out of those stereotypes.
>63 lyzard: 'The impression left by this novel is of a society where violence was a way of life, and where unprotected girls were at constant threat of harassment, if not much worse.' Good summing up of Evelina and this aspect of the novel particularly struck me too.
>65 lyzard: Love the cat photos! My cat will instantly cease whatever cute/amusing pose she's in as soon as I point a camera at her.
>70 lyzard: Yowzer!
>74 lyzard: 'I bet the people who bought that were disappointed when they discovered it was about a woman who can't control her book-buying...'
*snork*
>79 lyzard: The smiling sloth makes me smile too :-)
>87 lyzard: 'Perhaps I should do a "season" of these covers. I'm sure Heather would love it...' As long as I could steal them and use them as thread toppers next year!
>96 lyzard: I'm not even sure which hair colour is getting the worst out of those stereotypes.
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Ah, there you are! :)
As long as I could steal them and use them as thread toppers next year!
Deal!
Yes, the implications aren't very nice, although the patterns are interestingly revealing of the era, I think. I was just browsing and looking for more silly covers, but I couldn't help but be struck by the sheer number of red-heads amongst them all---and then it became obvious they were being used in a particular way...
And as I say, this way a definite 50s thing for some reason; it was gone by the 60s (where all hair colours seem to say "bad girl"!).
The other thing that really stood out was the shifts in the patterns of publishing. For example in the 50s, nurse romances were everywhere - but they, too, were gone in the sixties, replaced by the modern Gothic romance - and then in the 70s the nurses were back.
Cover-wise, both of those genres offer another treasure-trove of ridiculousness to explore once I've worked through my red-heads. With the nurse romances it isn't the covers so much as the blurbs - take up nursing and you WILL find yourself in a love triangle! - but I ended up almost hypnotised by the Gothics and their endless, endless renderings of exactly the same image---i.e. "woman in negligee running into the wind".
But one thing at a time... :)
As long as I could steal them and use them as thread toppers next year!
Deal!
Yes, the implications aren't very nice, although the patterns are interestingly revealing of the era, I think. I was just browsing and looking for more silly covers, but I couldn't help but be struck by the sheer number of red-heads amongst them all---and then it became obvious they were being used in a particular way...
And as I say, this way a definite 50s thing for some reason; it was gone by the 60s (where all hair colours seem to say "bad girl"!).
The other thing that really stood out was the shifts in the patterns of publishing. For example in the 50s, nurse romances were everywhere - but they, too, were gone in the sixties, replaced by the modern Gothic romance - and then in the 70s the nurses were back.
Cover-wise, both of those genres offer another treasure-trove of ridiculousness to explore once I've worked through my red-heads. With the nurse romances it isn't the covers so much as the blurbs - take up nursing and you WILL find yourself in a love triangle! - but I ended up almost hypnotised by the Gothics and their endless, endless renderings of exactly the same image---i.e. "woman in negligee running into the wind".
But one thing at a time... :)
99lyzard
...before I really get started on this, here's something to whet your appetites---I was most amused to note this cover on the way through:
100casvelyn
>99 lyzard:
Oooh, I can interpret this one too! Cover artist: "Since we all know that green sets off red hair so well, let's just insert a green hand like so, and voila! And it even brings out her eyes!"
Or this is a long-forgotten Agatha Christie zombie novel: "Dead bodies don't turn a hair of Hercule Poirot's perfect moustaches, but how will he fare against the undead?
I could *totally* be a 1940s pulp novel blurb writer.
Oooh, I can interpret this one too! Cover artist: "Since we all know that green sets off red hair so well, let's just insert a green hand like so, and voila! And it even brings out her eyes!"
Or this is a long-forgotten Agatha Christie zombie novel: "Dead bodies don't turn a hair of Hercule Poirot's perfect moustaches, but how will he fare against the undead?
I could *totally* be a 1940s pulp novel blurb writer.
101lyzard
Lisa Vale - Across the 30s and 40s, Olive Higgins Prouty produced a series of interlocking novels about the wealthy and privileged Vales of Boston, each focusing upon a different member of the extended family. The first in the series, White Fawn, concentrated upon the rocky romance of young Fabia Vale and medical student Dan Regan, a relationship strongly disapproved by the other Vales because of Dan's working-class Irish background. In Lisa Vale, the perspective becomes that of Fabia's mother, Lisa, who is caught between her autocratic and much older husband, Rupert, and businessman Barry Firth, with whom she shares a passionate love that her high principles prevent from turning into a physical affair. In addition to struggling with her own feelings, Lisa must deal with the continuing fallout of Fabia's engagement to Dan, including the threat from the Vales' domineering matriarch to sell the family home from over the heads of Fabia's parents if she persists; manage a series of clashes between Rupert and his eldest son, Rupert Jr, who is threatened with disinheritance when he is accused of getting a local girl pregnant; and hold her family together in the wake of the Wall Street Crash, which leaves the Vales in a parlous financial situation... Taken altogether, Olive Higgins Prouty's series of novels offer a fascinating portrait of a particular segment of American society, and of the mores of the time; although shifting values tend to place a distance between the novel's stance and what the reader now takes away from it. In particular, the narrative expresses what we might today feel is far too much sympathy with Fabia as she frets and whines about Dan's "neglect" of her, when he insists upon putting his work first - he is both a GP and a surgeon - and when he fails to make the gestures that girls of her social standing expect, such as sending flowers upon every occasion. Rather than feeling sorry for her, we can only wonder - as indeed we did during White Fawn - what Dan sees in her. Nor are we likely to feel anything but contempt when the Vales' initial relief that Murray, the youngest child, a shy, socially awkward boy, has finally found a real friend turns to dismay when they discover that the boy in question is (gasp!) Jewish. On the other hand, in the interaction between Lisa and her children this novel does offer some fine and insightful writing---passages which in this case seem rather ahead of their time in examining the parent-child relationship, and when the urge to protect a child becomes a form of control, with both Fabia and Rupert Jr describing to their mother what they wanted and needed from her in their moments of crisis. (Neither of them expects anything from their distant father.) There is also a refreshing honesty about Lisa's own vacillation in the matter of Barry Firth, an admission that virtue is anything but easy: while she will not permit herself to have an affair, neither can Lisa entirely separate herself from the man she loves, upon whom she blows hot and cold; Barry's frustration and occasional anger - and his own defiant attempt at retaliatory infidelity - are entirely understandable, though his ultimate devotion is not shaken. And it is Barry, not Rupert, who supports Lisa through the twin disasters that almost bring the Vale family to its knees; but although the loss of the family wealth due to Rupert's mismanagement is a stunning blow, it pales into insignificance when Rupert Jr is stricken with polio. In this last subplot, Lisa Vale offers to the contemporary reader a reminder of grim realities now thankfully of the past.
"I don't deny that Dan has hurt me in lots of little ways this fall... You've known he has hurt me. I've known you've known. But have I gone to you for help and comfort? No, I haven't, because I knew in your heart that you were glad. Each hurt was one more point on your side of the score..."
Lisa replied with a question in a tone free from all emotion, "Would you tell me what you would do if you were in my place, and presented with this problem?"
"Yes, I'll tell you," promptly replied Fabia. "I'd do everything I could to encourage my daughter to marry the man she loved, if he wasn't a perfect rotter. And Dan isn't. If she had her doubts (as every girl does, I'm told), I'd help her overcome them. If the man disappointed her in little ways, I'd tell her she was spoiled and selfish, and making mountains out of molehills... I'd tell her that she'd have a richer life to try to be happy with the man she loved than to be a coward and to be scared out of it. And I'd tell her if her marriage should be a failure she could come home again, and no matter how broken-hearted she was, I'd take care of her and make her happy again..."
102lyzard
>100 casvelyn:
My first thought was, "Wait, there's an adaptation with Shirley Maclaine!?" But yes, I like your zombie reimagining too!
I could *totally* be a 1940s pulp novel blurb writer.
Oh, hell, yes!!
My first thought was, "Wait, there's an adaptation with Shirley Maclaine!?" But yes, I like your zombie reimagining too!
I could *totally* be a 1940s pulp novel blurb writer.
Oh, hell, yes!!
103Matke
Way back along...EvElina, EvAlina, what's in a vowel?
Apparently a lot.
I'd forgotten those ghastly 50's and 60's covers...as a child I was often confused as to why the picture bore absolutely no relation to the book.
I also love the green corpse's hand...supposed to be a bit creepy, I suppose, but just turns into camp.
Apparently a lot.
I'd forgotten those ghastly 50's and 60's covers...as a child I was often confused as to why the picture bore absolutely no relation to the book.
I also love the green corpse's hand...supposed to be a bit creepy, I suppose, but just turns into camp.
104lyzard
Hi, Gail! - those touchy touchstones, any excuse to be uncooperative. :)
Yes, you do have to wonder what was in that glass...!?
Yes, you do have to wonder what was in that glass...!?
105lyzard
Well---I've learned a lot about red-heads through my cover art browsing, and it seems only right that I should share my discoveries with the rest of you.
So---
Secret Red-Head Rule #1:
Red-heads have an awful lot of trouble getting their clothes to stay on
(The Furies In Her Body is my favourite, for the two women in the background.)
So---
Secret Red-Head Rule #1:
Red-heads have an awful lot of trouble getting their clothes to stay on
(The Furies In Her Body is my favourite, for the two women in the background.)
108rosalita
>105 lyzard: Oh my goodness. "He didn't know she was married — to the man he was going to kill!" Dun dun DUN.
109souloftherose
>105 lyzard: Those are brilliant! I also like the expressions on the faces of the women in the background of The Furies In Her Body.
'Red-heads have an awful lot of trouble getting their clothes to stay on'
It makes daily life very difficult I can tell you....
'Red-heads have an awful lot of trouble getting their clothes to stay on'
It makes daily life very difficult I can tell you....
110Helenliz
>105 lyzard: oh deary deary me!
111lyzard
Trust me...you people ain't seen nuthin' yet! :D
>107 drneutron:
Hi, Jim - plenty more where those came from!
>108 rosalita:
So he's okay with contract killing, but not with sleeping with the victim's wife? There's obviously a lot about hit-man morality that I don't understand.
>109 souloftherose:
I'm glad you like them - I'd understand if you didn't! :)
It makes daily life very difficult I can tell you....
:D
>110 Helenliz:
Stick around, Helen, stick around...
>107 drneutron:
Hi, Jim - plenty more where those came from!
>108 rosalita:
So he's okay with contract killing, but not with sleeping with the victim's wife? There's obviously a lot about hit-man morality that I don't understand.
>109 souloftherose:
I'm glad you like them - I'd understand if you didn't! :)
It makes daily life very difficult I can tell you....
:D
>110 Helenliz:
Stick around, Helen, stick around...
112lyzard
Finished The Fortnight In September for TIOLI #2.
Now reading Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward).
Now reading Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward).
113cbl_tn
>101 lyzard: I read the author info on this cover as "Olive Higgins, pouty author of 'Stella Dallas'". Clearly I need more sleep!
115cbl_tn
>114 lyzard: I thought maybe she was angling for a red-headed cover photo to go with her author blurb. :-)
117cbl_tn
>116 lyzard: Well, then, she had nothing to pout over!
118lyzard
Hmm. My OCD continues to manifest in interesting yet amazingly frustrating ways.
Recently, to mix up my reading a bit more, I introduced a self-challenge in which I randomly select books from my wishlist that were published between 1940 - 1960. This has been going quite nicely except that I've now hit something more expensive than I care to pay.
In my troll through 1931 / 1932 I've gotten quite good at saying, "I'm not paying that for an unknown standalone" and moving on, but here, probably because it isn't just any old book but the one specific book chosen for me by The Reading Gods, I'm finding it extremely difficult to just set it aside and pick something else. I've been circling around this for several weeks but can't bring myself to break the chains.
Stupid OCD... {*grumble*}
Recently, to mix up my reading a bit more, I introduced a self-challenge in which I randomly select books from my wishlist that were published between 1940 - 1960. This has been going quite nicely except that I've now hit something more expensive than I care to pay.
In my troll through 1931 / 1932 I've gotten quite good at saying, "I'm not paying that for an unknown standalone" and moving on, but here, probably because it isn't just any old book but the one specific book chosen for me by The Reading Gods, I'm finding it extremely difficult to just set it aside and pick something else. I've been circling around this for several weeks but can't bring myself to break the chains.
Stupid OCD... {*grumble*}
120lyzard
Well! I think it's time for---
Secret Red-Head Rule #2
Red-heads have so much trouble getting their clothes to stay on, they often stop trying
Secret Red-Head Rule #2
Red-heads have so much trouble getting their clothes to stay on, they often stop trying
121lyzard
I have written a blog post on Men And Women; or, Manorial Rights by Catharine Crowe, from 1843, another very important transitional work in the development of crime fiction, and one that bears a surprising resemblance to a modern murder mystery.
The post is here.
The post is here.
122souloftherose
>120 lyzard: I am almost speechless. I think I may change my mind about using these images as thread toppers next year. People might get the wrong idea....
>121 lyzard: Interesting review of the Catharine Crowe novel, Liz.
>121 lyzard: Interesting review of the Catharine Crowe novel, Liz.
123lyzard
Gasp! A red-head! Put some clothes on, you hussy!!
Don't worry, there are plenty of images on the agenda that you will be able to use, I promise! :)
Aw, thanks for visiting my blog! Catharine Crowe is a very interesting writer; it's a pity she didn't publish more novels.
Don't worry, there are plenty of images on the agenda that you will be able to use, I promise! :)
Aw, thanks for visiting my blog! Catharine Crowe is a very interesting writer; it's a pity she didn't publish more novels.
124souloftherose
>123 lyzard: And a pity that the ones she did publish haven't been reprinted.
125lyzard
Oh, yes! At least Men And Women is available through GoogleBooks, and a decent scan for once, no smearing or missing pages.
My next crime read is by Frances Trollope - I haven't gotten to her novels before this so I'm quite excited about it.
My next crime read is by Frances Trollope - I haven't gotten to her novels before this so I'm quite excited about it.
126cbl_tn
You know, there are superstitions about red hair being unlucky. Maybe the difficulty keeping thier clothes on contributed to that! ;-)
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Phineas Redux - Published in 1874, this fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's 'Palliser' series picks up the political and social threads of Phineas Finn, and reintroduces most of the same characters, but is altogether a darker work and illustrates Trollope's increasing concern over the direction being taken by his society. In the earlier novel, the combination of powerful friends and good fortune (and good looks) was enough to carry the ambitious young Phineas over obstacles that should have been insurmountable to a young man of neither birth nor fortune; and even his exit from politics, in the wake of a conscience vote against his party, was his own choice and upon his own terms. However, when Phineas allows himself to be lured back to London, to re-enter the political fray once more at the cost of his post in Dublin, it begins to seem as if his almost proverbial luck has deserted him. He does win a seat in the House of Commons, but only after his opponent is accused of bribery; while the government office he needs to support himself proves maddeningly elusive. It becomes increasingly clear to Phineas that he has made enemies, both personal and political, who will keep him on the sidelines if they can. Meanwhile, his inability to extricate himself from the marital woes of Lady Laura and Robert Kennedy, who are now separated - the one living with her father in exile, in Dresden, the other brooding over his wrongs in Scotland - brings him unpleasantly into the public eye. These difficulties and disappointments pale into insignificance, however, when in the wake of a public confrontation with the most inveterate of his enemies, Phineas finds himself facing a charge of murder... Phineas Redux functions almost as the dark mirror of its earlier counterpart, with the two novels together charting Phineas's journey through ambition and success, to failure and disillusionment: the latter, in particular, becoming a major theme of Phineas Redux, with the dwindling of Phineas's belief in the parliamentary system foregrounded against a backdrop of party-political manoeuvring of the most cynical kind. Even Trollope's perfect politician, the painstaking and dedicated Plantagenet Palliser, finds himself a victim of the system he loves, when he is compelled by circumstances to give up his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In addition to his examination of the darker side of politics, Trollope uses his novel to ruminate generally upon a number of topics close to his heart, including the place of work in a man's life and the power (and abuse of power) of the Press, and again reveals his increasing interest in the psychology of his characters---in this case, the psychology of suffering, via the powerful twinned characterisations of the Kennedys, each mired immovably in their own misery, and the delineation of Phineas's emotional and psychological torment as he undergoes a nightmare journey through the legal system under threat of conviction and execution. However, despite all these darknesses, the gloom is not entirely unrelieved, but leavened by lighter subplots, by the reappearance of many of the series' important characters, and by an ending in which we discover that Phineas's luck has not entirely deserted him after all; although Phineas being Phineas, we are not exactly surprised when his good fortune appears in the form of a woman...
"This re-election---and I believe I shall be re-elected to-morrow---would be altogether distasteful to me were it not that I feel that I should not allow myself to be cut to pieces by what has occurred. I shall hate to go back to the House, and have somehow learned to dislike and distrust all those things that used to be so fine and lively to me. I don't think that I believe any more in the party; or rather in the men who lead it. I used to have a faith that now seems to me to be marvellous. Even twelve months ago, when I was beginning to think of standing for Tankerville, I believed that on our side the men were patriotic angels, and that Daubeny and his friends were all fiends or idiots---mostly idiots, but with a strong dash of fiendism to control them. It has all come now to one common level of poor human interests. I doubt whether patriotism can stand the wear and tear and temptation of the front benches in the House of Commons. Men are flying at each other's throats, thrusting and parrying, making false accusations and defences equally false, lying and slandering---sometimes picking and stealing---till they themselves become unaware of the magnificence of their own position, and forget that they are expected to be great..."
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I've been trying to work out the series order of the novels by Louis Tracy featuring Inspectors Winter and Furneaux, on which I can find no definite information.
Tracy evidently underwent something of a change of mind in this area: Inspector Winter first appeared in the novels focused upon Reginald Brett, a barrister and amateur detective, wherein Winter played the unenviable role of thick-headed policeman / butt-monkey. However, the Brett series didn't catch on (probably because Brett himself is an obnoxious prat), while Winter, ironically, reappeared as one half of a detective duo in a series that seems to have done fairly well, in spite of the current lack of information.
The issue is complicated by Tracy's habit of changing the title of his works, sometimes between serialisation and novel publication, sometimes between UK and US publication, and sometimes, it seems, just for @#$%@ and giggles; but as far as I have been able to determine the Winter and Furneaux series consists of the following:
The Case Of Mortimer Fenley (US title: "The Strange Case Of Mortimer Fenley") - 1915
Number Seventeen - 1916
The Postmaster's Daughter - 1916
The House Of Peril (UK title: "The Park Lane Mystery") - 1922
The Passing Of Charles Lanson - 1924
The Gleave Mystery - 1926
The Women In The Case - 1927
What Would You Have Done? (US title: "The Sandling Case") - 1928
Also a possibility is No Other Way, from 1912, which was originally published under Tracy's sometime-pseudonym, "Gordon Holmes". It would be just my luck if this was the first in the series, as it is by far the hardest of the bunch to get hold of.
On the other hand, this research has convinced me that there were never more than two books featuring the unlikeable Brett, so I can strike one more off my series list - whoo!!
Tracy evidently underwent something of a change of mind in this area: Inspector Winter first appeared in the novels focused upon Reginald Brett, a barrister and amateur detective, wherein Winter played the unenviable role of thick-headed policeman / butt-monkey. However, the Brett series didn't catch on (probably because Brett himself is an obnoxious prat), while Winter, ironically, reappeared as one half of a detective duo in a series that seems to have done fairly well, in spite of the current lack of information.
The issue is complicated by Tracy's habit of changing the title of his works, sometimes between serialisation and novel publication, sometimes between UK and US publication, and sometimes, it seems, just for @#$%@ and giggles; but as far as I have been able to determine the Winter and Furneaux series consists of the following:
The Case Of Mortimer Fenley (US title: "The Strange Case Of Mortimer Fenley") - 1915
Number Seventeen - 1916
The Postmaster's Daughter - 1916
The House Of Peril (UK title: "The Park Lane Mystery") - 1922
The Passing Of Charles Lanson - 1924
The Gleave Mystery - 1926
The Women In The Case - 1927
What Would You Have Done? (US title: "The Sandling Case") - 1928
Also a possibility is No Other Way, from 1912, which was originally published under Tracy's sometime-pseudonym, "Gordon Holmes". It would be just my luck if this was the first in the series, as it is by far the hardest of the bunch to get hold of.
On the other hand, this research has convinced me that there were never more than two books featuring the unlikeable Brett, so I can strike one more off my series list - whoo!!
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Finished Sprig Muslin for TIOLI #15.
Now reading Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, by Charles Beaumont (obviously), and edited by Roget Anker...or sort of reading it: this is the second Beaumont collection in my library, and overlaps quite a bit with The Hunger And Other Stories (read in July and reviewed here); I will only be reading those stories not in the earlier collection.
Now reading Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, by Charles Beaumont (obviously), and edited by Roget Anker...or sort of reading it: this is the second Beaumont collection in my library, and overlaps quite a bit with The Hunger And Other Stories (read in July and reviewed here); I will only be reading those stories not in the earlier collection.
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I've been book-buying a bit compulsively lately (No!!, I hear you all gasp incredulously), which is less a worry in itself than it is in light of the fact that I have been trying - albeit not altogether successfully - to decommission some of my books, not acquire more. Along the same lines, whenever I can get any book from a library rather than buying it, I do. This occasionally leaves me caught between buying a second-hand copy from overseas and an expensive academic loan (paying, in other words, not to acquire a book).
The other alternative is reading books on the spot. Both my State Library and my academic library have books they won't lend, but will allow access to within the confines of the library. The latter is more difficult, as the Rare Book room is only open 9.00am - 5.00pm on weekdays (conjuring up a not-unattractive vision of taking leave from work specifically to sit and read), while the State Library has longer weekday hours and is open on weekends. Both facilities, however, are near where I work, not where I live, so travelling has to be factored in.
Still...I can see this becoming an option. The State Library, in particular, holds a surprising number of Golden Age mysteries which are difficult to get hold of through normal channels. A couple of designated reading hours after work might just be the way to go...
The other alternative is reading books on the spot. Both my State Library and my academic library have books they won't lend, but will allow access to within the confines of the library. The latter is more difficult, as the Rare Book room is only open 9.00am - 5.00pm on weekdays (conjuring up a not-unattractive vision of taking leave from work specifically to sit and read), while the State Library has longer weekday hours and is open on weekends. Both facilities, however, are near where I work, not where I live, so travelling has to be factored in.
Still...I can see this becoming an option. The State Library, in particular, holds a surprising number of Golden Age mysteries which are difficult to get hold of through normal channels. A couple of designated reading hours after work might just be the way to go...
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I'll turn this into a proper list when I start a new thread, but in the meantime I need to keep notes of what is available through these other channels:
The Ellerby Case (Dr Priestley #3) - Rare Books
Peril At Cranbury Hall (Dr Priestley #8) - Rare Books
Tragedy On The Line (Dr Priestley #10) - Rare Books
Mystery At Greycombe Farm (Dr Priestley #12) - Rare Books
Dead Men At The Folly (Dr Priestley # 13) - Rare Books
The Robthorne Mystery (Dr Priestley #17) - State Library
Poison For One (Dr Priestley #18) - State Library
Shot At Dawn (Dr Priestley #19) - Rare Books
Hendon's First Case (Dr Priestley #21) - Rare Books
Mystery At Olympia (Dr Priestley #22) - State Library
In The Face Of The Verdict (Dr Priestley #23) - State Library
The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (Desmond Merrion #2) - Rare Books
The White Crow (Anthony Gethryn #2) - State Library, available for borrowing?
Six Minutes Past Twelve (Luther Bastion #1) - State Library
The White-Faced Man (aka "The Praying Monkey") (Luther Bastion #2) - State Library
The Ellerby Case (Dr Priestley #3) - Rare Books
Peril At Cranbury Hall (Dr Priestley #8) - Rare Books
Tragedy On The Line (Dr Priestley #10) - Rare Books
Mystery At Greycombe Farm (Dr Priestley #12) - Rare Books
Dead Men At The Folly (Dr Priestley # 13) - Rare Books
The Robthorne Mystery (Dr Priestley #17) - State Library
Poison For One (Dr Priestley #18) - State Library
Shot At Dawn (Dr Priestley #19) - Rare Books
Hendon's First Case (Dr Priestley #21) - Rare Books
Mystery At Olympia (Dr Priestley #22) - State Library
In The Face Of The Verdict (Dr Priestley #23) - State Library
The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (Desmond Merrion #2) - Rare Books
The White Crow (Anthony Gethryn #2) - State Library, available for borrowing?
Six Minutes Past Twelve (Luther Bastion #1) - State Library
The White-Faced Man (aka "The Praying Monkey") (Luther Bastion #2) - State Library
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Though of course, researching what might be accessible has reminded me of what definitely isn't.
Topping the list of the mystery genre's rarae aves is John Rhode's first Dr Priestley novel, The Paddington Mystery. There are copies out there, but only if you're willing to pay $1000 and upwards:
Topping the list of the mystery genre's rarae aves is John Rhode's first Dr Priestley novel, The Paddington Mystery. There are copies out there, but only if you're willing to pay $1000 and upwards:
135rosalita
Ooof. A thousand bucks? That's madness.
Hey, I have a question for my resident early 20th-century mysteries expert: I just finished reading The Moving Finger, which is billed as Miss Marple mystery. But the old girl doesn't show up until Page 203 of a 299-page book, and has like three scenes total and maybe a dozen lines of dialogue. What the heck is up with that?
Hey, I have a question for my resident early 20th-century mysteries expert: I just finished reading The Moving Finger, which is billed as Miss Marple mystery. But the old girl doesn't show up until Page 203 of a 299-page book, and has like three scenes total and maybe a dozen lines of dialogue. What the heck is up with that?
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You sound like my brother, whose opinion is that, "Jane wasn't necessary." :)
I have a couple of theories. One is that Agatha intended a quiet commentary on how it is in fact much harder to be an amateur detective than most novels make it look; Jerry has all the pieces in his hands but can't put the puzzle together on his own.
More seriously, I think that this book was intended to be about a lot of things other than its mystery---that in fact it finds Agatha doing two things she was often accused of not doing at all, developing her characters and taking an interest in their psychology. (I don't think either of those things is true, but they're often said.) Thus Jane is kept in reserve to allow the situation to bubble and fester. Plot-wise, we are well into the story before the real need for a detective becomes evident.
I think this book is really about changing female roles and attitudes to women. The plot turns on assumptions about aberrant female psychology and female hysteria and other emotional reactions - the letter-writer must be a woman with mental problems, Mrs Symmington was "hysterical", and so on - and of course, none of that turns out to be true. It's all a smokescreen, as Jane herself would say. All the platitudes are progressively undermined---and this in placed in the context of characters like Megan and Joanna and Mrs Dane Calthrop and Jane herself, not one of whom plays a conventional female role. Moreover, we have Aimee Griffith, who is another of Christie's female characters who has been denied the education given to her brother; we also see that in The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd. And Symmington "trading in" his first wife... So on it goes.
Megan is one of my favourite of Christie's characters, BTW, and this novel contains one of my all-time favourite Christie lines:
Every man has his own ways of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise. But no doubt Joanna had asked for it.
I have a couple of theories. One is that Agatha intended a quiet commentary on how it is in fact much harder to be an amateur detective than most novels make it look; Jerry has all the pieces in his hands but can't put the puzzle together on his own.
More seriously, I think that this book was intended to be about a lot of things other than its mystery---that in fact it finds Agatha doing two things she was often accused of not doing at all, developing her characters and taking an interest in their psychology. (I don't think either of those things is true, but they're often said.) Thus Jane is kept in reserve to allow the situation to bubble and fester. Plot-wise, we are well into the story before the real need for a detective becomes evident.
Megan is one of my favourite of Christie's characters, BTW, and this novel contains one of my all-time favourite Christie lines:
Every man has his own ways of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise. But no doubt Joanna had asked for it.
137rosalita
Ah, thank you for that wonderful response, Liz! You concept makes a lot of sense. I did not really know about that criticism of Christie, but I thought the characters in this one, especially Jerry and Joanna, were well-developed and extremely likable. And I agree completely with everything you put under the spoiler tag regarding the actual mystery.
One thing that occurred to me as I was reading your response is that part of the problem might be a function of reading this novel in the 21st century. At this point we (at least I) tend to have very set ideas of what a "Miss Marple mystery" should be, because we are so thoroughly familiar with her not only through Christie's books but also through the innumerable cinematic adaptations. If I remember correctly, this was a pretty early entry in the series. I bet contemporary readers didn't react the same way to Marple's tardy appearance because the concept of "Miss Marple" wasn't as thoroughly entrenched in their consciousness.
Also, this next thought is not really at all related to this particular book, but something you wrote jogged me into thinking of it. As I've been re-reading some Christies lately, I've grown to appreciate how Christie resisted the trope of having the police always be totally skeptical and dismissive of the little old lady. I mean, there is some of that (and I can think of at least one occasion where a cop refers to her quite patronizingly as a "dear old pussy" or some such, which grrr), but she also has her unabashed fans among the police force who actively seek her out for her insight.
Anyway, I did like this one quite a bit and I cycled through about 4 or 5 "completely obvious" culprits whilst never seriously suspecting the actual murderer at all, so clearly the smokescreens worked fine on me. And I did like Megan very much, even when Jerry referred to her as "old catfish" (which is how you know it's true love, I reckon).
One thing that occurred to me as I was reading your response is that part of the problem might be a function of reading this novel in the 21st century. At this point we (at least I) tend to have very set ideas of what a "Miss Marple mystery" should be, because we are so thoroughly familiar with her not only through Christie's books but also through the innumerable cinematic adaptations. If I remember correctly, this was a pretty early entry in the series. I bet contemporary readers didn't react the same way to Marple's tardy appearance because the concept of "Miss Marple" wasn't as thoroughly entrenched in their consciousness.
Also, this next thought is not really at all related to this particular book, but something you wrote jogged me into thinking of it. As I've been re-reading some Christies lately, I've grown to appreciate how Christie resisted the trope of having the police always be totally skeptical and dismissive of the little old lady. I mean, there is some of that (and I can think of at least one occasion where a cop refers to her quite patronizingly as a "dear old pussy" or some such, which grrr), but she also has her unabashed fans among the police force who actively seek her out for her insight.
Anyway, I did like this one quite a bit and I cycled through about 4 or 5 "completely obvious" culprits whilst never seriously suspecting the actual murderer at all, so clearly the smokescreens worked fine on me. And I did like Megan very much, even when Jerry referred to her as "old catfish" (which is how you know it's true love, I reckon).
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I agree with you - it may also have something to do with the TV adaptations (not sure how familiar you are with those), which not only rewrite the novels to increase Janey's presence, but shoehorn her into standalones where she has no business being. It conditions people to expect her to be far more prominent than she is in any of her novels.
Agatha's cops are something else that don't get the credit they deserve: there is a whole platoon of them, with different attitudes and competencies; it is anything but a simple case of dumb cop / smart detective. I think Superintendent Battle is one of the best of all Golden Age fictional cops, and it's a pity he isn't in more novels. (Towards Zero is one of the most tampered-with TV productions; Battle is replaced by Jane, grr!)
Agatha's cops are something else that don't get the credit they deserve: there is a whole platoon of them, with different attitudes and competencies; it is anything but a simple case of dumb cop / smart detective. I think Superintendent Battle is one of the best of all Golden Age fictional cops, and it's a pity he isn't in more novels. (Towards Zero is one of the most tampered-with TV productions; Battle is replaced by Jane, grr!)
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Bad cover of the day:
All things considered, would anyone care to hazard a guess of how, exactly, she's being asked to "please" him?
All things considered, would anyone care to hazard a guess of how, exactly, she's being asked to "please" him?
141Helenliz
>139 lyzard: I could hazard a guess, which I won't commit to type. And while on a bench on the promenade! That would surely be subject to an indecent behaviour warrant!! Disgraceful!!!
(My Granny would have been mildly titillated and loved it! She used to borrow Mills & Boon from the library, but they were always hidden under the newspaper.)
(My Granny would have been mildly titillated and loved it! She used to borrow Mills & Boon from the library, but they were always hidden under the newspaper.)
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>140 ronincats:
Hi, Roni! Sorry about your poor arm. :(
>141 Helenliz:
Not very subtle, is it?? :D
Some of these early Harlequins are being brought to my attention by a Canadian blogger, who seems to share my amusement with nurse romances (and the lack of nursing that goes on in them!).
Hi, Roni! Sorry about your poor arm. :(
>141 Helenliz:
Not very subtle, is it?? :D
Some of these early Harlequins are being brought to my attention by a Canadian blogger, who seems to share my amusement with nurse romances (and the lack of nursing that goes on in them!).
143scaifea
>139 lyzard: *SNORK!!*
144rosalita
>139 lyzard: I mean, she's looking right at it. The subtlety is not strong with this one, grasshopper.
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Finished Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories for TIOLI #15.
Now reading Death In The Clouds by Agatha Christie.
Now reading Death In The Clouds by Agatha Christie.
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Success! I finally managed to catch my model in a cooperative mood:
Well...mostly cooperative:
Well...mostly cooperative:
148cbl_tn
>147 lyzard: With those gorgeous eyes there's no reason to be so camera shy!
149Helenliz
>147 lyzard: she's a complete sweetie. purrrrrrrrrrr
151ronincats
Lovely!
Check out Anne's new thread for some slothiness.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/196240#5285385
*waves cast--one more week!*
Check out Anne's new thread for some slothiness.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/196240#5285385
*waves cast--one more week!*
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>148 cbl_tn:
Hi, Carrie - well, that's why I wanted to share them with the world!
>149 Helenliz:
Yes, she is.
Mostly.
Sometimes... :)
>150 souloftherose:
No, but you'd be surprised how many nurses are! :D
Aw, thank you.
>151 ronincats:
Thanks for the heads-up, Roni!
A week? you must be counting the minutes!
Hi, Carrie - well, that's why I wanted to share them with the world!
>149 Helenliz:
Yes, she is.
Mostly.
Sometimes... :)
>150 souloftherose:
No, but you'd be surprised how many nurses are! :D
Aw, thank you.
>151 ronincats:
Thanks for the heads-up, Roni!
A week? you must be counting the minutes!
155ronincats
I hope this winter's El Niño cools us down enuf that I can spend some time in the attic to find my Ruth Fielding books...
was here...
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Finished Ruth Fielding And The Gypsies for TIOLI #20, and that will be it for September.
Now reading The Silver Star by Jackson Gregory.
Now reading The Silver Star by Jackson Gregory.
163Helenliz
Someone ought to be careful, waving that cast around. You might hit yourself, or someone else, with it and require another cast... Not wishing that on you, of course.
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Bricks And Mortar - Helen Ashton's 1932 novel is an odd yet interesting work. The narrative follows architect Martin Lovell and his family from the late Victorian period, the time of the Martin's marriage to pretty young Letty Stapleford, to a point almost contemporaneous with the book's conclusion. For the most part the Lovells could hardly be more ordinary - the text itself comments that they are "a typical family...reasonably prosperous, respectably if not brilliantly connected" - yet out of the clash between Martin Lovell's inner and outer worlds Helen Ashton moulds an engaging and occasionally moving story. In Martin himself, we have an insightful and largely sympathetic portrait of an introvert, who loves his family deeply yet never wholly understands them as individuals, nor ceases to be taken by surprise by their passions, agendas and tragedies. Haunted by feelings of inadequacy, a fear that he cannot give his wife and children what they need, Martin turns for comfort to his profession. Sufficiently successful at his job if never outstanding, it is in architecture that Martin finds the clarity missing from his human relationships; and it is with respect to his passion for building and buildings that Martin allows his emotions to emerge most fully: the narrative is studded with eruptions of his passionate appreciation for style, line and design, and his constant search for that rare yet glorious concordance of elements that can "satisfy his domestic and balanced mind". It is the great if hidden joy of Martin's life that his daughter, Stacy, shares his predilections, and that after several false starts she follows him into architecture---although inevitably, the differences in Stacy's attitude and approach leave Martin rather bemused. Meanwhile, the history of the Lovell family itself is told via the houses they occupy: curiously, Martin never builds a house for his family, who instead move from property to property as the potential of a house catches his imagination and inspires him to apply his talents to its improvement ("flipping", though for aesthetic rather than financial purposes). There is a real poignancy in Martin's pouring of himself into his final, solitary home, after he has been widowed---yet as always, he finds solace in the work, in the bricks and mortar that are the very stuff of life.
Standing under the light Renaissance arcade in the vine-wreathed courtyard of the Plantin-Moretius house, he decided, finally and obstinately, that he did not care for Flemish Gothic. There was something sinister, high-shouldered and constricted about the steeply-pitched roofs with their peering suspicious rows of dormer windows, the crowded, intricate tracery of the canopied windows and niches, the florid, soaring multiplicity of pierced belfries and arrowy slender spires. It all seemed as angular and ascetic as the tortured, lean-ribbed saints and prudish, shrinking virgin martyrs in the jewel coloured primitives of the museums. He took much greater delight in this warm sixteenth-century brickwork, these light round arches and tall mullioned windows; they satisfied his domestic and balanced mind.
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The Fortnight In September - "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things," is how R. C. Sherriff explained his 1931 novel, inspired by his own holiday in Bognor Regis and his observations of the other people staying there. For twenty years, Mr and Mrs Stevens and their children have been spending their fortnight in September at a lodging-house in Bognor. This year, however, the holiday has taken on an extra significance: the two eldest children, Mary and Dick, are grown up and working now, and there is a general awareness that this may be the Stevens' final holiday as a family. Furthermore, Bognor itself is changing; and not all their determined rose-coloured glasses can conceal from the Stevens how sad and shabby their traditional lodgings have become, although loyalty to their struggling landlady as much as their usual positive approach to life compels them to make the best of things. Because of, rather than despite, these auguries of things coming to an end, the Stevens are determined to make this a holiday to remember... It could fairly be said that "nothing happens" in The Fortnight In September; certainly nothing does that is in any way out of the completely ordinary; but it is not in its events, or non-events, that the quiet strength of this novel lies, but in R. C. Sherriff's eye for detail, both tangible and emotional, particularly in the reactions of the family to their circumstances: the Stevens have, collectively, a capacity for wringing the maximum amount of enjoyment out of even the simplest pleasures that may well make some entitled modern readers feel rather ashamed of themselves. But in spite of its overtly cheerful air and abundant good humour, there is an underlying sadness about The Fortnight In September that at times is almost unbearable---the subplot involving the Stevens' landlady, in particular. Each of the Stevens - with the exception of ten-year-old Ernie, untouched by the currents of adult life swirling about him - has a secret pain to deal with, the consciousness of which divides them from their family emotionally even at those moments when they seem most united. Moreover, the very nature of the holiday, with its regularity and rituals, reveals the passage of time and the inevitability of change, no matter how determinedly the holiday-makers put those thoughts from them. When the fortnight - plus one stolen day - is over, there is not only the usual bitter-sweet sense of a holiday over and another year beginning to move to its close, but of the end of an era.
Wave after wave lashed the concrete wall, to sink back with a moan of pain as though clutched and drawn down by a great sea monster. The countless little pebbles lay motionless, petrified, as each wave came crashing in on them---then they would leap to life and go madly chasing it with a sound like the far distant cheering of a mighty crowd.
Now and then the Stevens turned their faces from the gale and gulped in great lungsful as it passed them: it rushed right through them and made their skins feel smooth and cool against their clothes.
They stood a long time without speaking, each dying wave drawing the aching little shadows of ledger figures from Mr Stevens' eyes. Once or twice he closed the lids so that his eyes could float in the cool spaces that were forming around them. His nostrils were cool---his throat was cool, yet strangely his body glowed with warmth.
At last they turned. One by one they let go of the promenade rail, and walked on in straggling single file, their eyes still out towards the sea...
168souloftherose
>166 lyzard: The Fortnight in September is one of my favourite books republished by Persephone. I'm hoping to read Sherriff's The Hopkins Manuscript this month.
169Helenliz
Just a little snippet for the Heyer fans, Georgette Heyer has had a blue plaque placed at her birthplace.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/georgette-heyer-receives...
See, there are other people who appreciate her too.
BTW, I see she'd fit nicely into TIOLI #1 this month, what's anyone planning?
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/georgette-heyer-receives...
See, there are other people who appreciate her too.
BTW, I see she'd fit nicely into TIOLI #1 this month, what's anyone planning?
170tymfos
>147 lyzard: Awwwww! What a sweet kitty!
172harrygbutler
Hi, Liz. I was adding series information for a few mysteries by Vincent Starrett and noticed that you had added the third of the series, The End of Mr. Garment, but not the first two, Murder on "B" Deck and Dead Man Inside. (I'm currently reading the latter, as I hadn't realized it was part of a series until a reference to prior detection by the sleuth, Walter Ghost.) Just thought I'd let you know of another short series.
Starrett's Jimmie Lavender mystery stories are probably a bigger challenge to sort out, as I think many weren't collected in book form until George Vanderburgh's Battered Silicon Dispatch Box editions.
Starrett's Jimmie Lavender mystery stories are probably a bigger challenge to sort out, as I think many weren't collected in book form until George Vanderburgh's Battered Silicon Dispatch Box editions.
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>168 souloftherose:
Hi, Heather - yes, it's lovely! I'll be interested in your comments on The Hopkins Manuscript, I haven't read that.
>169 Helenliz:
Thanks, Helen!
Yes, Heyer fits generally into #1; I'm thinking about the four-letter-word challenge (!) for April Lady, if I get to it this month---I'm trying to clear the library book pile a bit.
>170 tymfos:
Hi, Terri - yes, that's my personal monarch and enslaver! :)
>171 ronincats:
...tick, tick, tick...
>172 harrygbutler:
Hi, Harry - thanks for that! Yes, I have a lot of random books on The List that I don't know are series works until I start looking into them. It sounds like I have a challenge ahead with the Jimmie Lavender series, yike! :)
Hi, Heather - yes, it's lovely! I'll be interested in your comments on The Hopkins Manuscript, I haven't read that.
>169 Helenliz:
Thanks, Helen!
Yes, Heyer fits generally into #1; I'm thinking about the four-letter-word challenge (!) for April Lady, if I get to it this month---I'm trying to clear the library book pile a bit.
>170 tymfos:
Hi, Terri - yes, that's my personal monarch and enslaver! :)
>171 ronincats:
...tick, tick, tick...
>172 harrygbutler:
Hi, Harry - thanks for that! Yes, I have a lot of random books on The List that I don't know are series works until I start looking into them. It sounds like I have a challenge ahead with the Jimmie Lavender series, yike! :)
174lyzard
Finished The Green Shadow for TIOLI #8.
Now reading Murder By Formula by J. H. Wallis, the first in the series featuring Inspector Wilton Jacks.
Now reading Murder By Formula by J. H. Wallis, the first in the series featuring Inspector Wilton Jacks.
175lyzard
Best-selling novels in the United States for 1903:
1. Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward
2. Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
3. The Pit by Frank Norris
4. Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice
5. The Virginian by Owen Wister
6. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice
7. The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
8. Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
9. The One Woman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
10. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.
1903 finds a woman topping the US best-seller list, albeit a British woman, with the prolific author May Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) taking the top spot with her romantic melodrama, Lady Rose's Daughter, about the illegitimate granddaughter of an aristocrat.
Still hanging in from 1902 are the unlikely duo of The Virginian and Mrs Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch (the previous year's #1 and #2, respectively), while Alice Hegan Rice makes a second entry with Lovey Mary, the sequel to "Mrs Wiggs".
Frank Norris' The Pit is also a sequel, a follow-up to his 1901 novel, The Octopus, and like it describes an aspect of the American wheat industry, in this case the related trading and speculation. Norris's early death prevented the completion of a planned trilogy. The Pit is set in Chicago, which is also the background for Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, a faux-correspondence between a self-made millionaire and his son, which was hugely popular for its combination of humour and wisdom.
"Local colour" remains another popular theme, as evidenced by the presence of James Lane Allen, who novels and short stories were often dialect-heavy works set in Kentucky. Kentucky is also the setting for The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, which tells of a young man growing up in a small town, who becomes alienated from his community when he joins the Union Army upon the outbreak of the Civil War. Gordon Keith is a post-Civil War novel, about young men trying to live by their (Southern) fathers' code in the new world.
Making his first unwelcome appearance on the list is Thomas Dixon Jr, who would later gain notoriety for The Clansman, the basis of the film, The Birth Of A Nation: The One Woman is a reactionary drama in which anyone who claims to believe in equality is exposed as a hypocrite, a criminal or (if female) immoral.
1. Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward
2. Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
3. The Pit by Frank Norris
4. Lovey Mary by Alice Hegan Rice
5. The Virginian by Owen Wister
6. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice
7. The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
8. Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
9. The One Woman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
10. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.
1903 finds a woman topping the US best-seller list, albeit a British woman, with the prolific author May Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphry Ward) taking the top spot with her romantic melodrama, Lady Rose's Daughter, about the illegitimate granddaughter of an aristocrat.
Still hanging in from 1902 are the unlikely duo of The Virginian and Mrs Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch (the previous year's #1 and #2, respectively), while Alice Hegan Rice makes a second entry with Lovey Mary, the sequel to "Mrs Wiggs".
Frank Norris' The Pit is also a sequel, a follow-up to his 1901 novel, The Octopus, and like it describes an aspect of the American wheat industry, in this case the related trading and speculation. Norris's early death prevented the completion of a planned trilogy. The Pit is set in Chicago, which is also the background for Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, a faux-correspondence between a self-made millionaire and his son, which was hugely popular for its combination of humour and wisdom.
"Local colour" remains another popular theme, as evidenced by the presence of James Lane Allen, who novels and short stories were often dialect-heavy works set in Kentucky. Kentucky is also the setting for The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, which tells of a young man growing up in a small town, who becomes alienated from his community when he joins the Union Army upon the outbreak of the Civil War. Gordon Keith is a post-Civil War novel, about young men trying to live by their (Southern) fathers' code in the new world.
Making his first unwelcome appearance on the list is Thomas Dixon Jr, who would later gain notoriety for The Clansman, the basis of the film, The Birth Of A Nation: The One Woman is a reactionary drama in which anyone who claims to believe in equality is exposed as a hypocrite, a criminal or (if female) immoral.
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Mary Arnold was born in Tasmania in 1851, but her family settled permanently in England five years after her father's religious vacillation cost him his government position. She was the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, and the niece of Matthew Arnold. When she was twenty she married Thomas Humphry Ward, who then held a position at Oxford; denied a university education herself, Mary seems to have viewed her marriage as "Oxford-by-proxy", a "literary partnership" of study and writing.
However, as with many female novelists of the time, Mary eventually found herself having to write to support her family: her husband worked only sporadically at journalism, and had an unfortunate taste for speculation, while their only son, Arnold, would develop a chronic gambling problem. Mary's first few books did not do particularly well, but in 1888 she published Robert Elsemere, a novel about a young minister having a crisis of faith, which drew simultaneously upon her own Oxford experiences and the consequences to his family of her father's conversion (and de-conversion, and re-conversion) to Catholicism. The book caught the prevailing mood of religious controversy and was an enormous if rather scandalous best-seller.
Mary continued to publish regularly over the following thirty years, specialising in "the novel with a purpose", and often basing her plots upon a clash of views between her hero and heroine. Several more of her novels would achieve best-seller status both in England and in the United States.
At the same time, Mary worked tirelessly for the improvement of women's education---although her most enduring legacy lies in her work with disabled children, for whom she established a series of special schools, the first of their kind in England. During WWI she became the first female war correspondent, visiting the trenches and publishing a series of articles in America at the special invitation of Theodore Roosevelt. However, despite the seeming self-contradiction, at the same time as these activities Mary was active as an anti-suffragette, campaigning vigorously against women being given the vote. Her stance damaged her reputation both as a novelist, with her works becoming heavily propagandist at this time, and with the women's education movement, and contributed to a waning popularity.
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Lady Rose's Daughter - Published in 1903 but set some thirty years earlier, this romantic melodrama by Mary Augusta Ward was its year's best-selling novel in the United States. It seems likely that there was Anglophile component to this success, since one of the strengths of the novel is its detailed depiction of the nexus between aristocratic, political and military power that made up "society" at the peak of the Victorian era; though at the same time, Ward shines a light on the hypocrisy and contradictions of this world, where virtue is a choice, and a title capable of washing away sin. Into this most exclusive of cliques comes an outsider, a woman known as Julie de Breton, who by blood is related to the most noble families in England---but whose illegitimate birth damns her to a life of servitude and exclusion... Lady Rose's Daughter is a surprisingly daring book for its attack upon the conventions of the time - literary as well as social - with a hero and a heroine who play against type at almost every turn; and while 19th century literature overflows with stories of men on the brink who are "saved" by the love of a good woman, rarely indeed to we find the situation so deliberately reversed. Julie le Breton is beautiful, charming and intelligent---but also a young woman of no particular religious belief, who is capable of scheming and deception to achieve her ends. Much of this novel's conflict lies within Julie herself, who is caught between her desire for the life of privilege and power for which she longs in spite of herself, and which she feels is her right by blood, and an impulse towards rebellion and defiance that is the inheritance of her unconventional birth and upbringing. The passionate and wilful Julie is silently, unobtrusively loved by Jacob Delafield, a young man of austere standards and firm self-control, whose democratic principles clash with his position as heir to a dukedom. Drawn to Julie's beauty and charm, sympathetic with the endless difficulties of her position, Jacob is nevertheless clear-sighted about the many shades of grey in her nature---and sees too, only too clearly, that she is in love with another man. Having found a foothold upon the fringes of society as the companion to the irascible and autocratic Lady Henry Delafield, Julie's cool-headed schemes for her own future advancement are threatened by her passion for Henry Warkworth, a young soldier of fortune, whose uncertain social status and poverty match her own, and who must likewise scheme to survive. Carried away by her emotions for the first time in her life, Julie finds herself risking everything she has gained for Warkworth's sake---until the only question is exactly how much she is prepared to sacrifice...
Julie envied and hated the big house and all it stood for; she flung a secret defiance at this coveted and elegant Mayfair that lay around her, this heart of all that is recognised, accepted, carelessly sovereign in our "materialised" upper class. And yet all the while she knew that it was an unreal and passing defiance. She would not be able in truth to free herself from the ambition to live and shine in this world of the English rich and well born. For, after all, as she told herself with rebellious passion, it was or ought to be her world.
And yet her whole being was sore from the experiences of these three years with Lady Henry---from those, above all, of the preceding twenty-four hours. She wove no romance about herself. "I should have dismissed myself long ago," she would have said, contemptuously, to any one who could have compelled the disclosure of her thoughts. But the long and miserable struggle of her self-love with Lady Henry's arrogance, of her gifts with her circumstances; the presence in this very world, where she had gained so marked a personal success, of two clashing estimates of herself, both of which she perfectly understood---the one exalting her, the other merely implying the cool and secret judgment of persons who see the world as it is---these things made a heat and poison in her blood....
178scaifea
De-lurking to say, again (because I think I've said it before), that I just *love* your reading list ideas, especially this year-by-year bestseller one. I revel in your lists, lady! Revel, I say!
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Hi, Amber! Please do revel away, because my lists are about all I have to offer my visitors at the moment! (Gotta get some reviews written, just gotta get some reviews written...)
181cbl_tn
I have one of the 1903 books, and maybe two. I kept my grandmother's copy of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come because it was my grandmother's. She also had The Virginian, but my brother may have ended up with that one.
182DeltaQueen50
Hi Liz, I am loving your red hair covers, they are fantastic! As a former red head (it's all grey now) I can assure Heather that eventually the clothes stay one without the slightest effort!
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>181 cbl_tn:
Hi, Carrie - how cool that you have your grandmother's book! I have my father's copy of The Virginian, but I hadn't read it until I dug it out for this project. Of the rest this month, I've only read Mary Ward before, though I feel I ought to have read Frank Norris. (Maybe next time I'm feeling just too cheerful, and need a downer!)
>182 DeltaQueen50:
Oh-ho, another red-head in our midst, hey!? :D
Yes, I must get back to my red-head covers---there are so many more interesting facts about red-heads that I need to share with the world!
Hi, Carrie - how cool that you have your grandmother's book! I have my father's copy of The Virginian, but I hadn't read it until I dug it out for this project. Of the rest this month, I've only read Mary Ward before, though I feel I ought to have read Frank Norris. (Maybe next time I'm feeling just too cheerful, and need a downer!)
>182 DeltaQueen50:
Oh-ho, another red-head in our midst, hey!? :D
Yes, I must get back to my red-head covers---there are so many more interesting facts about red-heads that I need to share with the world!
184swynn
>177 lyzard: Thanks for the comments about Lady Rose's Daughter. It wasn't my cup of tea, but I'm pleased to see from your summary that I didn't miss the main points. I'm not familiar, though, with the social and literary context, and your comments help with that.
185souloftherose
>176 lyzard:, >177 lyzard: Interesting comments on Mrs Ward and Lady Rose's Daughter. I downloaded that to my kindle last month but didn't get round to reading it in time. I've also had Robert Elsmere on my wishlist for a while.
I just found out about a recently published book called Red: A Natural History of the Redhead on @susanj67's thread which I will be adding to my wishlist. Perhaps it's a good thing that they seem to have gone for a Pre-Raphaelite painting for the cover image rather than one of the covers you posted earlier?
I just found out about a recently published book called Red: A Natural History of the Redhead on @susanj67's thread which I will be adding to my wishlist. Perhaps it's a good thing that they seem to have gone for a Pre-Raphaelite painting for the cover image rather than one of the covers you posted earlier?
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>184 swynn:
Hi, Steve - no, I didn't think it would be. I found it an interestingly risky challenge of the double standard, but yeah, it helps to know what she was writing back against.
Anyway, I see we're back with Winston Churchill this month, for better or worse. :)
>185 souloftherose:
I was glad to get one more Ward under my belt---I haven't read as much of her as I should have done, particularly considering I've had the Virago editions of Marcella and Helbeck Of Bannisdale sitting around for yonks...but, hey, maybe you and I will eventually read our way to those, hmm?? :D
Ah, yes, I saw the red-head talk on Susan's thread! As I was saying to Judy, I need to get back to my red-heads, and give you a choice of images that aren't so, uh, provocative.
Hi, Steve - no, I didn't think it would be. I found it an interestingly risky challenge of the double standard, but yeah, it helps to know what she was writing back against.
Anyway, I see we're back with Winston Churchill this month, for better or worse. :)
>185 souloftherose:
I was glad to get one more Ward under my belt---I haven't read as much of her as I should have done, particularly considering I've had the Virago editions of Marcella and Helbeck Of Bannisdale sitting around for yonks...but, hey, maybe you and I will eventually read our way to those, hmm?? :D
Ah, yes, I saw the red-head talk on Susan's thread! As I was saying to Judy, I need to get back to my red-heads, and give you a choice of images that aren't so, uh, provocative.
187lyzard
Finished The White Crow for TIOLI #8.
Now reading The Blatchington Tangle by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole.
Now reading The Blatchington Tangle by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole.
188swynn
>186 lyzard: I am about 200 pages into The Crossing and mostly enjoying it despite some predictable racism. It's more an adventure story than The Crisis was, which helps. Be warned, though: it's thick.
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Simpson: A Life - Though these days he tends to figure in the public consciousness chiefly as the man who took the Knole estate away from his cousin Vita by virtue of his Y-chromosome, Edward Sackville-West was also a novelist and biographer in his own right. His fiction tended to the autobiographical and, odd as it may seem, his 1931 novel, Simpson: A Life, is no exception---though overtly it is the biography of an English nanny. Ruth Simpson is the third of seven children in a working-class family, who finds her metier in life when her mother abrogates responsibility for her two youngest offspring. Family life has put Ruth off both marriage and children of her own, but raising children is what she wants to do; and in her late teens she enters service as a nursery maid, with a rapid promotion to "nanny"... Simpson: A Life seems a peculiar book for a man to write; but although there is a certain psychological acuteness in the portrait of Ruth - or "Simpson", as she quickly becomes known - it is a portrait of a narrow character which becomes more so over time, as Simpson's experiences cause her to retreat inwards rather than blossom outwards. Her views on child-raising are fixed and inflexible---and work best in middle-class-and-up households, where the parents have little contact with their children---and when confronted with something outside the realm of her theory, she retreats. Though the narrative follows Simpson through her various postings, which never extend beyond ten years so that "her" children remain always children in her memory, ultimately she measures her own life by her contact with two children in particular: the step-cousins Salathiel Cresset and Childeric Kohnstamm. Here the autobiographical element enters this novel: the sickly, over-emotional, highly imaginative Childeric is evidently a sketch of Sackville-West himself as a child; while the handsome, outgoing, popular Salathiel becomes increasingly a kind of wish-fulfilment fantasy. Together the two boys form a single complete personality: Salathiel needs Simpson least, but loves her most; while Childeric, who lives in a world very much of his own, expresses need rather than love. It is the latter that takes the tightest hold upon Simpson, anchoring her in Germany even as the storm clouds of 1914 begin to gather. Eventually forced out of the country by her worried employees, Simpson goes through the war years haunted by the thought of Childeric as an "incomplete child", a job not finished; until at last, heedless of anything but the tormenting vision of "her" child in need, she sets out once more for Germany; a very different Germany...
Childeric's face, hung helplessly over the basin, made Simpson miserable. There was to her something alarmingly naked about it, which urged her to frame it somehow, with hands or stuff---anything to dispel the piteous effect of exposition. The transparency of his skin, the delicacy of his features grouped round the thread of pale blood, seemed to Simpson an invitation to every kind of malignity. And this overpowering pity, which penetrated her mind like a cloud of scent, stood between her and the boy, as it had stood between her and Martin, linking them together---providing a keystone to the arch of their love. With Salathiel---with all the other inhabitants of the temple---her relations had been direct, requiring no link; instinctively she valued the more complex connection, because it involved more trouble on her part and a more careful emotional adjustment. To the world she might have said: "I like a normal, healthy child"; but in her heart she preferred that which made the most demands upon her...
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>188 swynn:
Yikes! - thanks for the heads-up. I've already got one chunkster looming on the TBR; looks like I'll have to batten down the hatches for the rest of the month! (And then, heaven help us, Heather and I are supposed to be reading Cecilia---double yikes!)
Have you added The Crossing to TIOLI? Technically it fits the Victorian challenge, but you may be able to spot something more appropriate.
Yikes! - thanks for the heads-up. I've already got one chunkster looming on the TBR; looks like I'll have to batten down the hatches for the rest of the month! (And then, heaven help us, Heather and I are supposed to be reading Cecilia---double yikes!)
Have you added The Crossing to TIOLI? Technically it fits the Victorian challenge, but you may be able to spot something more appropriate.
191swynn
Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clarke, probably Andrew Jackson, and several other less recognizable historical persons have appeared so far so it would certainly fit there. It may also qualify for Child as Main Character though I expect him to grow up some in the next 600 pages.
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Ah, of course! - there would be plenty of real people in the narrative. So I guess I'll see you in #5! :)
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Hmm...how to catalogue a book that appears to have been published (and in three cases, simultaneously!) under five different titles and two different author names?
I refer to the book known as:
Forget-Me-Not / The Case of Lucile Clery / The Strange Case Of Lucile Clery / Woman Of Intrigue / Lucile Clery, A Woman Of Intrigue, by either Joseph Shearing or Marjorie Bowen, according to which version you own (and which are, in any case, both pseudonyms for Gabrielle Long Campbell). Forget-Me-Not by Joseph Shearing seems to be the first British edition, with (surprise!) a change of title in America.
And while I was still trying to sort this out, I became completely distracted (as you know I tend to do!) by the extremities in this novel's cover art...and by the insistence that there's a red-head involved in this tale of historical murder, although whether she's the victim or the perpetrator also depends on your edition.
Here is the rather demure 1971 paperback reissue, in which (I'm pretty sure) that's Lucile on the right, glaring at her rival:
...and here is the very much less demure 1949 edition, in which Lucile turns out to be one of our numerous red-heads who can't get her clothes to stay on:
Wouldn't pick them for the same book, would you?? :D
I refer to the book known as:
Forget-Me-Not / The Case of Lucile Clery / The Strange Case Of Lucile Clery / Woman Of Intrigue / Lucile Clery, A Woman Of Intrigue, by either Joseph Shearing or Marjorie Bowen, according to which version you own (and which are, in any case, both pseudonyms for Gabrielle Long Campbell). Forget-Me-Not by Joseph Shearing seems to be the first British edition, with (surprise!) a change of title in America.
And while I was still trying to sort this out, I became completely distracted (as you know I tend to do!) by the extremities in this novel's cover art...and by the insistence that there's a red-head involved in this tale of historical murder, although whether she's the victim or the perpetrator also depends on your edition.
Here is the rather demure 1971 paperback reissue, in which (I'm pretty sure) that's Lucile on the right, glaring at her rival:
...and here is the very much less demure 1949 edition, in which Lucile turns out to be one of our numerous red-heads who can't get her clothes to stay on:
Wouldn't pick them for the same book, would you?? :D
195lyzard
...and I can only say it again: I bet the buyers of the 1949 edition were terribly disappointed... :)
(Aw, look at you, all running around and typing stuff...!?)
(Aw, look at you, all running around and typing stuff...!?)
196lyzard
Finished The Blatchington Tangle for TIOLI #11.
Now reading Re-Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson.
Now reading Re-Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson.
197Helenliz
>193 lyzard:: Mind boggling!
This topic was continued by lyzard's list: going forward to the past - Part 7.
