I've spent most of my life reading and collecting mystery novels. This year I've decided to read through my entire collection again. My preference is for the classic English "Golden Age" puzzle mystery, although there are many from other countries and other genres as well. I've purged the collection at times in the past, and there are some good ones I've never gotten to, so there are gaps in it, and that's fine with me. My object in this exercise is to enjoy them all over again.
I'm starting this year or so of re-reading my collection of mystery novels with two by Catherine Aird, Slight Mourning, published in 1975, and Some Die Eloquent, from 1979. Both are comfortable, entertaining reads for an evening or two, but... neither one will stick with you for very long, although sometimes that's a good thing.
Grade for each: B.
Dashiell Hammett was a former detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, founded in 1850, who turned to writing crime novels and founded ...
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