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#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction title with an evaluative adjective

When Kate reminded us of this week’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, my first thought was for H. R. F. Keating because I had noticed a pattern in some of his books:

• The Bad Detective
• The Good Detective
• The Soft Detective
• The Rich Detective

These are standalone’s and I never read anything by Keating, but I’m curious about his writing. He was president of the Detection Club between 1985 and 2000. I do have two related books in my immediate TBR: Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, essays edited by him, and The Verdict of Us All – edited by Peter Lovesey, a collection of short stories by The Detection Club’s members in honour of Keating’s 80th birthday, which include before each work a memory or contact these writers had of H.R.F. Keating.

#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction title with an evaluative adjective

When Kate reminded us of this week’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, my first thought was for H. R. F. Keating because I had noticed a pattern in some of his books:

• The Bad Detective
• The Good Detective
• The Soft Detective
• The Rich Detective

These are standalone’s and I never read anything by Keating, but I’m curious about his writing. He was president of the Detection Club between 1985 and 2000. I do have two related books in my immediate TBR: Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, essays edited by him, and The Verdict of Us All – edited by Peter Lovesey, a collection of short stories by The Detection Club’s members in honour of Keating’s 80th birthday, which include before each work a memory or contact these writers had of H.R.F. Keating.

#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction title with an evaluative adjective

When Kate reminded us of this week’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, my first thought was for H. R. F. Keating because I had noticed a pattern in some of his books:

• The Bad Detective
• The Good Detective
• The Soft Detective
• The Rich Detective

These are standalone’s and I never read anything by Keating, but I’m curious about his writing. He was president of the Detection Club between 1985 and 2000. I do have two related books in my immediate TBR: Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, essays edited by him, and The Verdict of Us All – edited by Peter Lovesey, a collection of short stories by The Detection Club’s members in honour of Keating’s 80th birthday, which include before each work a memory or contact these writers had of H.R.F. Keating.

#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction title with an evaluative adjective

When Kate reminded us of this week’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, my first thought was for H. R. F. Keating because I had noticed a pattern in some of his books:

• The Bad Detective
• The Good Detective
• The Soft Detective
• The Rich Detective

These are standalone’s and I never read anything by Keating, but I’m curious about his writing. He was president of the Detection Club between 1985 and 2000. I do have two related books in my immediate TBR: Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, essays edited by him, and The Verdict of Us All – edited by Peter Lovesey, a collection of short stories by The Detection Club’s members in honour of Keating’s 80th birthday, which include before each work a memory or contact these writers had of H.R.F. Keating.

#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction title with an evaluative adjective

When Kate reminded us of this week’s #MurderEveryMonday theme, my first thought was for H. R. F. Keating because I had noticed a pattern in some of his books:

• The Bad Detective
• The Good Detective
• The Soft Detective
• The Rich Detective

These are standalone’s and I never read anything by Keating, but I’m curious about his writing. He was president of the Detection Club between 1985 and 2000. I do have two related books in my immediate TBR: Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime, essays edited by him, and The Verdict of Us All – edited by Peter Lovesey, a collection of short stories by The Detection Club’s members in honour of Keating’s 80th birthday, which include before each work a memory or contact these writers had of H.R.F. Keating.

#MurderEveryMonday “the man” or “the woman” in the title

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday theme is “the men” or “the woman” in the title. I went through the Portuguese collection Vampiro to find all the titles. We have more men than women. I’m considering the titles in Portuguese, and when different I will write the original title. Also all the titles in Portuguese have “the man” (o homem) or “the woman” (a mulher) as you can see from the photos, but when translating the Portuguese titles into English we must change the order of the words, so it makes sense.

• The powerful man – Michael Spillane (original title: The Deep)
• The man in the bed number 10 – Mary R. Rinehart (original title: The man in lower 10) – read it and liked it
• The sinister man – Edgar Wallace – read and liked it
• Maigret and the man from the bench – Georges Simenon (Maigret et L’Homme du banc) – favourite cover by the artist Lima de Freitas, not sure if I read this one, but usually like Simenon and recommend
• The shadow man – Dashiell Hammett (original title: The thin man)
• Maigret and the man with two women – Georges Simenon (original title: Liberty Bar)
• Maigret and the solitary men – Georges Simenon (original title: Maigret et L’Homme tout seul)

The man in the brown suit and The man in lower 10 were the first titles I remember could do for today’s hashtag. This book by Agatha Christie is not her usually murder mystery, but it is more on the side of adventure novels and I also like she borrowed from her trip with the British Empire Expedition.

There is less “the woman” in the collection.

• Maigret and the vanished woman – Georges Simenon (original title: Chez les flamands)
• The quiet woman – Harry Carmichael (I have read this author as Hartley Howard and liked it, I’m curious about this one. Real name: Leopold Ognall)
• The phantom woman – William Irish (original title: The phantom lady. Read this one a long time ago and liked it)
• The woman that was not missed – Dorothy Simpson (original title: Dead and gone. Can’t remember if I ever read Simpson, although the name rings a bell).

Back to your covers. If you want to participate in #MurderEveryMonday check Kate’s post here.

#AgathaChristie #BookLook #books #classicCrime #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #GeorgesSimenon #MurderEveryMonday #readings

Happy publication day to Martin Edwards for Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Classic crime, puzzles, cluefinder, this book was so good!

#Books #Readings #ClassicCrime

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/bookreview-miss-winter-in-the-library-with-a-knife-by-martin-edwards-out-11-september/

The Killer Inside Me — Kindle Edition "The deputy sheriff of a small Texas town hides a dark secret in this classic 1952 crime novel" Sale: $17.99 to $3.99 by Jim Thompson Rating: 4.1/5 (1,708 Reviews) #Crime #Thriller #ClassicCrime #MustRead #Psychological #Books #BookSky

The Killer Inside Me

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme) 😃

Follow Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#books #readings #crimefiction #EarlDerrBiggers #AgathaChristie #Poirot #ClassicCrime #bookstodon

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme) 😃

Follow Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#books #readings #crimefiction #EarlDerrBiggers #AgathaChristie #Poirot #ClassicCrime #bookstodon

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme) 😃

Follow Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#books #readings #crimefiction #EarlDerrBiggers #AgathaChristie #Poirot #ClassicCrime #bookstodon

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme) 😃

Follow Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#books #readings #crimefiction #EarlDerrBiggers #AgathaChristie #Poirot #ClassicCrime #bookstodon

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme) 😃

Follow Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#books #readings #crimefiction #EarlDerrBiggers #AgathaChristie #Poirot #ClassicCrime #bookstodon

I’ve just read my first Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe novel, The Golden Spiders. What a cracker of a story, and so funny. I can see why PG Wodehouse (Stout’s contemporary) liked his work so much.

#wodehouse #NeroWolfe #classicCrime

My current reading somehow got relevant.

From "The Case of the Canterfell Codicil" by PJ Fitzsimmons.

#ClassicCrime