Genre Detective Books

Full title: The matters at Mansfield, or, the Crawford affair This is the fourth book in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries, covering what happened to Elizabeth and Darcy after they got married. This entry incorporates characters from Mansfield Park, as all the books have ‘reused’ one of Jane Austen’s other novels. We find Elizabeth [...]

This is an Agatha Christie mystery, and to my great pleasure, it is a Tuppence and Tommy story – I picked it up because I liked the title (and was sure I hadn’t read it before – I’d remember that title!) and didn’t look to carefully, as I had to know too much in advance. [...]

This is an early Agatha Christie novel, written in around 1925. We have a young man called Anthony Cade – a bit of a ne’er do well, but there are strong suspicions of a heart of gold under all that roguish exterior. Eking out a living in Africa, he encounters a friend who asks him [...]

Another Agatha Christie book. I am enjoying reading these – I thought that hercules Poirot would annoy me, but he doesn’t – possibly because he doesn’t appear that much in the books, possibly because… he just doesn’t! Poirot is shocked, simply shocked! His ultra efficient secretary has made 3 mistakes in one letter. This is [...]

Miss Marple is minding her own business – and feeling her age – when a letter appears asking her to attend a London solicitor. She realises that an acquaintance from a few years ago has passed on and has left a strange bequest. He needs justice to be done – and it is Miss Marple [...]