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Crime for Christmas: Five favourite festive reads

Posted on Dec 22, 2025 in Agatha Christie, An English Murder, Catt Out Of The Bag, Christmas Crime, Clifford Witting, Dorothy L Sayers, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, Martin Edwards, Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, The Nine Tailors, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Crime for Christmas: Five Festive Reads: here they are in order of publication Dorothy L Sayers, The Nine Tailors (1934). Ok, so not Christmas exactly, but close enough. It is a snowy New Year’s Eve when Lord Peter Wimsey runs his car into a ditch near the village of Fenchurch St Paul. I regularly reread […]

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Splendid reprints of a forgotten GA author

Posted on Oct 19, 2021 in Catt Out Of The Bag, Clifford Witting, Galileo Publishing, Measure for Murder, Murder in Blue | 4 Comments

On a morning early in 1940 Mrs Mudge, the charlady, arrives at Lulverton Little theatre, home of the local amateur dramatic society, whose first performance of Measure for Measure is due to take place that evening. She goes into the box office: ‘with the still whining vacuum-cleaner dragging behind her like an unhappy dog on […]

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