![]() In his comment, our friend John painted the book this way: Reading JJ’s review made me want to get on with this one all the more, but first I took a little detour, due to a comment in another of JJ’s posts about a book called Ten Dead Comedians, by Fred Van Lente, which seemed to be an homage to Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. But that darned TBR pile of mine – and a little thing called work – has so far kept it out of my grasp. When word of Word got out, I followed suit and purchased it months ago. (See The Magpie Murders.)Īmericans are just getting around to Magpie, but I paid attention to my British blogging mates and the wonderful people on the GAD Facebook page and ordered my British copy via The Book Depository. That’s not going to stop me from starting it tonight, for it sounds right up my alley – a novel by a modern author who has enough understanding of classic tropes to turn out a fine crime novel in the traditional style. ![]() ![]() I was going to read and review Anthony Horowitz’ new mystery, The Word Is Murder, but both Kate and JJ beat me to the punch. ![]() ![]() and I conveniently forgot to bring that set of film papers home to grade! It gives me just the time I need to settle down to a good book. I’ve got five glorious days off from school. ![]()
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