I find great satisfaction in reading detective novels because it is gratifying that in contrast to real life, the bad guy is caught and brought to justice and law and order is restored as it should be. Last week I was reading Simon Brett: ‘ The Liar in the Library’ , and there was a question asked: ‘are detective novels inferior literature and should it be defined not as literature, but as popular trash’. The book gave examples that some serious, or should we say real literar

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Publishes originally 1891 this edition 1994 by Penguin Books 508 pages. ISBN 978-0140-62-20-7 Genre: historical fiction of the late...

Published 1898 by Picador 220 pages; ISBN: 978-0330-37187-2 Grade 5/5 Genre: crime, confession of a thief and a killer,   Will I read...

The Bodleian Library, Oxford Ever since my favorite book shop: Book Depository closed its doors I have had a problem how to get books in...

‘ My Lost Youth’  is an 1855 poem by the American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about his longing for his childhood village; he does...

I am a WASTE WARRIOR, in the words of National Geographic! For three years I have walked along the kibbutz fence and gathered waste and...

Published 1931 this edition from New English Library 1975 284 pages ISBN 450 02667-1 Genre: crime Key words: Peter Wimsey, Galloway,...

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Published 1924; this edition 1953 is the 26th printing 1976 By Pan Books London and Sidney ISBN 0330-10242-7 190 pages, 36 chapters....

Published 2007 by Pocket Books 503 pages 2/5 stars ISBN: 978-1-41652-767-1 Will I read more by this author: not sure. Genre: crime...

Published 2023 by Harper Collins Publishers 342 pages ISBN: 978-0-00-851702-1 5/5 stars I will absolutely read more by this author Genre:...

Published 2022 by Harper Collins Publishers 406 pages ISBN 978-0-00-838507-1 Grade 1/5 Will I read more by this author: NO Genre: crime...

Published 2022 by Harper Collins Publishers 340 pages ISBN 0978-0-0084357609 My grade: 5/5 Genre: crime, cozy Keywords: murder, hotel...

Published 2016 by Berkely, New York 324 pages ISBN 978-1-101-99047-6 Grade 3/5 Genre: crime Keywords: kidnapped 2-year- old, unsolved...

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Published 2017/2023 by Penguin Books 424 pages ISBN: 97801-784-75625-3 Grade 1/5 Genre: crime Keywords: murder, abduction, kidnapping,...

Published 2018 by Constable 344 pages ISBN978-1-4721-2745-7 Grade 5/5 Genre: crime Keywords: The Lake District, UK; burning and...

Published 1987 by Vintage, Penguin. 247 pages. ISBN: 978-0099-75501-2 Grade: 5/5 Will I read more of this author: yes Genre: Fiction,...