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A book set on Sark, and Bad Letters in literature

More Ross Macdonald: The Moving Target & Harper

From Greene to Yonge, and more crinolines

Tipping my Fedora – Ross MacDonald

Graham Greene: The Man for a White Elephant Stall

Margaret Millar – one of the greats

The Intricate World of Literary Jumble Sales

More Lippman, and Clothes for Mrs Blossom

Laura Lippman and Mrs Blossom and The Wire

Ermine Wrap and Green Hat

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

Dancing Bears, and where to find them

Nine Times Nine by Anthony Boucher

Crinolines – the followup

The Fingerprint by Patricia Wentworth

Coronet, Bingham, Paris, Debs, Spies

Crinolines and their Comfort Zone

Stage Door Enquiries - theatrical mystery and prop guns from Derek Smith

Beatniks, Coronets and Charlotte Bingham

Christie and Seven Dials: 2026 version and 1920s clothes

The Twenty-Third Man by Gladys Mitchell

Q: What makes an overcoat theatrical?

The Second Curtain by Roy Fuller

Antigua Penny Puce by Robert Graves

The Matchmaker by Stella Gibbons

No Direction Home – which way is best?

The Fascination of Seven Dials: for Carr and Christie

Compass directions, a children’s classic, and is North best?

The Man in the Moonlight by Helen McCloy

The Last Gifts of Christmas: Barbara Pym

A dress for a New Year party…

Panto, and why Petrova & Tania are the best

Bertie’s [belated] Christmas Eve by Saki

Shedunnit, Green Penguins and the Puffin Club

A Children's Party on Boxing Day

Christmas Day poem: Thomas Hardy's The Oxen

Christmas meat: Vegetarian trigger warning

A Matchmaking Christmas

Reprint of the Year 2: The Ten Teacups

Death at Christmas...

Decorating the Church for Christmas, again

Children, Christmas & Jane Austen's advice on parenting

St Lucy's Day, and more from Ember Lane

Reprint of the Year: Christianna Brand

Christmas Tree and Stella Gibbons

Death Comes at Christmas

Christmas in Trollope – decorating the church

Xmas book-lover gifts: Strong Words, Nemo & The Murder Game

Festive Cheer: Her Heart felt as cold as her hands…

The snow-bound village…. and a Christmas-y Mystery

Death by Theatre: Quick Curtain by Alan Melville

How boring is sailing?

Theatricals ahoy: Vintage Murder

Greece, Ambler, Stewart

Theatrical Murders, and a Trial in Three Acts

Only a Matter of Time by VC Clinton-Baddeley

Another Challenge Pic, and The Girls of Slender Means

What are we on about? Do we have some questions?

Murder, Gothic Castles and Undine

Adrian Mole and his mother

More Halloween More Apples

A Spooky Story for Halloween, and Apple Grabbing

Good Clues: Who is Simon Warwick? By Paricia Moyes

Growing up with Emma by Jane Austen

Mystery at the Villa Bianca by Mabel Esther Allan

Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham

Challenge Result: A Shilling for Candles

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell (and hats again)

Shedunnit, and Trent’s Last Case

Ironing Nylon & a Hatshop: The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson

Anatomy of a Murder, and of attitudes to women

The Album by C Day Lewis

Black Wings has My Angel by Lewis Elliott Chaze

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

Reviewing for the i newspaper: The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Reviewing for the i newspaper: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

More pictures to match up!

Hymn Tunes and a Bookshop and lost gems

Clothes in Books Day Out: The Barbara Pym society

Culture at the I newspaper: The best cosy crime?

What the maids wore: Dress Down Tuesday

Using up pictures and going on holiday: a challenge

More Jane Austen: Mansfield Park

Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett

More Hats - for matrons and garden parties