Category: Freeman Wills Croft
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I have not been posting recently as my reading has not been of outstanding interest over the last few weeks. Most of you will know that I am not a lover of modern fiction try though I might and, quite frankly, there has been very little published of late that sparks my interest. This is…
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A few years ago I discovered Freeman Wills Croft mainly through the auspices of the Classic Crime series published by the British LIbrary. I read a huge amount of them and found them totally engrossing. One of the first titles I read was Mystery in the Channel. The Chichester is making a routine journey across…
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I have just realised the days are moving quickly and I will soon be in 2021 before I talk about my reading this year. So here goes with the second lot. The Crown in Crisis; the Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman. This is one of the best, if not the best, of all…
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I have been catching up and sorting out the last couple of days and now feel organised enough in my mind to start the reading posts for this year. On checking my blog it seems I read about 240 books last year. A huge chunk of these were read on my cruise last January-March and…
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In a previous post I made it clear that this year, with the travelling I have been doing, I decided not to embark on any ambitious reading but merely to pick and dip into what took my fancy. Therefore, my books of the year for 2018 will not reflect any great, deep tomes of philosophical…
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A nice pile of books this week and also a few from the library to read. People are always surprised when they discover I go to the library and borrow books. 'But surely you have enough at home?' You can never have too many books is my response to that. So here is what I…
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I have been having a real Golden Age of Crime blitz in the last month or so. I recently reviewed Bats in the Belfry and The Thatched Roof Murder by E C Lorac. Link here. I decided to do some investigating and found that this was the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) (who…
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No surprise to see that I am writing about the British Library Crime Classics series yet again – and no, I am not paid by them – and here are another three which were sent to me at my request after I read one title by Freeman Wills Croft and grovelled for some more. I…