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#MurderEveryMonday Maps, Maps here, there and everywhere

When I saw today’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, created by the wonderful Kate Jackson from Cross Examining Crime, was crime fiction with a map on the cover or in the inside, my first thought went to this collection of short stories, Manhattan Mayhem, edited by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 2015 to celebrate the 70th of the Mystery Writers of America.

Not only the cover has a map of Manhattan, but each story starts with a street map: for this anthology, Mary Higgins Clark invited authors to choose a Manhattan neighbourhood and set a story there.

I read it many years ago, probably when it came out, and while I can’t remember all the stories (I still have a recollection of some of them), I really liked it. Maybe it’s time to re-read it. It’s also a beautiful edition with the slip cover and all the iconic photos inside.

And if you like classic or golden age crime fiction, there is no shortage of maps, so (yes, you’re right) I turned to Agatha Christie. First, with the map on the facsimile edition of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and then with the same map in a Portuguese edition.

Then I remembered there was a map of the plane in Death in the Clouds:

This is an edition from a Portuguese collection called The Golden Scarab and the previous owner inscribed it with the year 1952. The book also indicates it was translated from the original – sometimes Portuguese translations would be made from other translations – and the final pages have ads about flying insurance and an airway company.

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Who is the author with more works in the Guardian’s list of 100 greatest novels of all time?

The Guardian made a list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. You can see the list here, with links to how Guardian’s made it. First place of the list is George Eliot with Middlemarch, but I thought to check which authors had more works in this list. And it’s Virginia Woolf with five books!

Second place in the number of the novels in the list are Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, both with four books.

Best part? There all in public domain, so you want to start with any of these four authors, right here, right now, head to Project Gutenberg and let’s read!

Books by George Eliot – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/90

Books by Virginia Woolf – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

Books by Jane Austen – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68

Books by Charles Dickens – https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Anthony Trollope’s Christmas Stories #PublicDomain #Books

You know I have been reading the Barset Novels (loving them) and I have also read recently The Fixed Period (loved it), so my recommendation for this weekend is again works by Anthony Trollope that I intend to read and you can also read right here, right now.

According with the The Trollope Society, Anthony Trollope has eight stories related to Christmas and I’m making a list here and try to find them online so you can also read them.

• Catherine Carmichael; Or Three Years Running
  I only found this story in a pdf format which is not very good to read on a mobile or ereader so last year I transformed the pdf into an epub, corrected the typos, and made it available here, where you can read it on the browser or choose to download the epub format.

• Christmas At Thompson Hall
• Christmas Day At Kirkby Cottage
• The Mistletoe Bough
• The Two Generals
• The Two Heroines of Plumplington
• The Widow’s Mite
  These six works can be found at Standard Ebooks. You can download the whole ebook here or go through the table of contents and choose the stories you want to read directly on the browser. The only story that is not a short story is The Two Heroines… that has around 100 pages

• Not if I Know it
  I couldn’t find this short available online without restrictions, I will be continuing my search and update this post accordingly. If you know where we can find it online and accessible by anyone, do add it in the comments. Trollope’s works are in public domain.

The book in the photo does not have three of the stories: Catherine Carmichael; The Two Heroines of Plumplington; The Widow’s Mite.

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