#martin edwards

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

Something wonderful that nobody tells you about being an adult is that occasionally you get to go to bed at 7pm on a Friday with a large mug of tea and four books.

#and it feels so good! #it’s been SUCH a weird week at work #it’s been WEIRD and I am TIRED and I woke up at 0245 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep #so I have earned this early night I think #Lou reads #Lou talks #tea! #books! #connie willis #ben macintyre #pitchaya sudbanthad #martin edwards #the tea is decaf

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Golden Age of Murder | Author: Martin Edwards | Publisher: HarperCollins (2015)

#books #The Golden Age of Murder #Martin Edwards

[lizabethstucker]

Mystery by the Book edited by Martin Edwards

3 out of 5.

Subtitled "Mysteries for Bibliophiles", this is a collection of sixteen short stories published between the 1930s and early 1970s. The basic theme is mysteries from the world of books, victims or perpetrators who are authors or booksellers or others with a literary connection.

I was expecting to adore this book as older mysteries are usually my favorites. Plus there are some rather big names of mystery fiction from that period represented here. Don't get me wrong, these weren't bad, they were just meh. It was rather boring a read. None of the stories rated high enough to be a favorite or low enough to hate.

Contents:

"A Lesson in Crime" by G. D. H. & M. Cole (aka George Douglas Howard & Margaret Cole, husband & wife) "Trent and the Ministering Angel" by E. C. Bentley "A Slice of Bad Luck" by Nicholas Blake "The Strange Case of the Megotherium Thefts" by S. C. Roberts "Malice Domestic" by Philip MacDonald "A Savage Game" by A. A. Milne "The Clue in the Book" by Julian Symons "The Manuscript" by Gladys Mitchell "A Man and His Mother-in-Law" by Roy Vickers "Grey's Ghost" by Michael Innes "Dear Mr. Editor…" by Christianna Brand "Murder in Advance" by Marjorie Bremner "A Question of Character" by Victor Canning "The Book of Honour" by John Creasey "We Know You're Busy Writing…" by Edmund Crispin "Chapter and Verse" by Ngaio Marsh

#book review #mystery #mystery collection #short story collection #Murder by the Book #Martin Edwards

[e-b-reads]

1, 12, 22?

Thanks!!

what are you currently reading?

I'm almost done w/ a detective stories collection called The Measure of Malice (ed. Martin Edwards) that I got out of the library. Golden age (1890s-1950s) short stories, all of them using ~science~ in some way to solve their mysteries.

12. what are your favourite genres?

Going based solely on numbers, I'd have to say mystery. And I do like mysteries, especially the way the genre forces tight plots. Even though I don't read as much fantasy anymore, I think I still am a fan of especially intrusive fantasy/magical realism.

22. what is an essential element of a good book?

For me to really like a book (I guess this isn't the exact same as it being a good book), it needs to have characters I like. (Similarly to your answer to this, I think, I will add: likable doesn't necessarily mean good!)

#an ask #an answer #the measure of malice #martin edwards #also feat. stories by #dorothy sayers #arthur conan doyle

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #335

An end of week recap “As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.” – Alberto Manguel This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to…

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#Alberto Manguel #Books #French Literature #Martin Edwards #Paris in July #Reading #Summer Reading #Welsh Crime Fiction

[kaggsy59]

"...books, though full of words, are silent things; they have no tongue." #deathofmrdodsley @BritLibPublishing @medwardsbooks

It’s been a little while since I covered a British Library Crime Classic on the blog, but today I want to share my thoughts about the first of two I’ve read recently (the second will follow soon!). Today’s book has a very appealing title – it’s “Death of Mr Dodsley: A London Bibliomystery” by John Ferguson; with that kind of subtitle I was going to be predisposed to like it, and indeed it turned…

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#british library crime classics #golden age crime #john ferguson #martin edwards

[literarysiren]

Anthologies aren't just for film, and this one had some truly unique perspectives and points of view in it, as each story played into the detective genre in some form or another.

#books #booksbooksbooks #book review #vintage crime #martin edwards #money is honey #michael gilbert #strolling in the square one day #julian symons #the service flat #bill knox #michael z lewin #hand that feeds me #in too deep #liza cody #the nuggy bar #simon brett #interior with corpse #peter lovesey #flame tree press #short story collection #crime writers association

[typewriter-worries]

life film imitates art

The Kiss, Gustav Klimt | Shutter Island, dir. Martin Scorcese | Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth | Bad Dreams, dir. Andrew Fleming | Prisoners Exercising, Vincent Van Gogh | A Clockwork Orange dir. Stanley Kubrick | The Night Café, Vincent Van Gogh | Lust for Life, dir. Vincente Minnelli | Nighthawks, Edward Hopper | Pennies from Heaven dir. Herbert Ross | The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci | Viridiana, dir. Luis Buñuel | Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jacques-Louis David | Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola

#things stopped making sense after we stopped referencing the last supper in everything #webweaving #web weaving #parallels #dark academia #classic academia #light academia #film stills #gustav klimt #shutter island #martin scorsese #christina's world #andrew wyeth #bad dreams #andrew fleming #vincent van gogh #stanley kubrick #a clockwork orange #vincente minnelli #edward hopper #herbert ross #jacques louis david #sofia coppola #marie antoniette 2006 #classic film

[wordsandpeace2u-blog]

Sunday Post #59 - 6/5/2022

Sunday Post #59 – 6/5/2022

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme ***  This post also counts for              #SundayPost #SundaySalon #StackingTheShelves…

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#A. A. Milne #Catriona Ward #Edna Ferber #Gabrielle Zevin #Georges Simenon #Martin Edwards #Sunday Post #Thomas Jefferson #WWW_Wednesdays

[michelle-jacksons-art-blog]

Unhinged gay squad

#I thought it would be nice to post these together #our flag means death #ofmd #blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #nandermo #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #good omens #aziraphale #anthony j crowley #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #bbc ghosts #pat butcher #the captain #bbc ghosts captain #patcap #our good shadows

[logray]

PRIMAL FEAR (1996) dir. Gregory Hoblit THE BATMAN (2022) dir. Matt Reeves

#angelslatte #filmedit #batmanedit #thebatmanedit #primalfearedit #misc parallels #batman parallels #the batman #primal fear #riddler #edward nashton #paul dano #batman #bruce wayne #robert pattinson #matt reeves #martin vail #richard gere #aaron stampler #edward norton #gregory hoblit #gifs**

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Guilty Creatures | Author: Martin Edwards | Publisher: British Library Publishing (2021)

#books #Guilty Creatures #Martin Edwards

[bakersimmer]

Wednesday

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#MartinsESC #ts4 #ts4 story #ts4 storytelling #sims story #Martin Archer #Laila Mellov #Hanna Edwards #Escape23

[kaggsy59]

"Horror in Hades!" #sepulchrestreet @medwardsbooks

Today I’m delighted to be taking part in a blog tour; I do these occasionally and the book in question was one I was really keen to explore. The author, Martin Edwards, has made regular appearances on the blog, most often for his masterful work curating the British Library Crime Classics series. However, I also covered his monumental history of the genre, “The Life of Crime“, which was such an…

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#head of zeus #martin edwards #rachel savernake #sepulchre street

[type-ii-supernova]

a little bit of old dano art

#ignore how my art style cant stay consistent #martin asher #taking lives #edward nashton #the riddler #the batman 2022 #louis ives #the extra man #paul dano #danonation #fanart #my art

[nocternalrandomness]

Martin X-24B at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - November 30, 1972

#Martin #X-24B #experimental aircraft #X plane #lifting body #research aircraft #USAF #NASA #dry lake bed #Dryden Flight Research Center #Edwards AFB #aviation #aerospace