Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Penn Dutch Inn mysteries (with recipes) by Tamar Myers

1. Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth (1993)
2. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Crime (1995)
3. No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk (1996)
4. Just Plain Pickled to Death (1997)
5. Between a Wok and a Hard Place (1998)
6. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary (1998)
7. Play It Again, Spam (1999)
8. The Hand That Rocks the Ladle (1999)
9. The Crepes of Wrath (2001)
10. Gruel and Unusual Punishment (2002)
11. Custard's Last Stand (2003)
12. Thou Shalt Not Grill (2004)
13. Assault and Pepper (2005)
14. Grape Expectations (2006)
15. Hell Hath No Curry (2007)
16. As the World Churns (2008)
17. Batter Off Dead (2009)
18. Butter Safe Than Sorry (2010)


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Saturday, November 27, 2010

MIss Marple Mysteries by Agatha Christie

1. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
2. The Body in the Library (1942)
3. The Moving Finger (1942)
4. A Murder Is Announced (1950)
5. They Do It with Mirrors (1952) -- aka Murder with Mirrors
6. A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
7. 4.50 from Paddington (1957) --- aka What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw
8. The Mirror Crack'd: from Side to Side (1961)
9. A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
10. At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
11. Nemesis (1971)
12. Sleeping Murder (1976)


Short stories
The Thirteen Problems (1932) - aka The Tuesday Club Murders


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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Tommy and Tuppence mysteries by Agatha Christie

1. The Secret Adversary (1922)
2. Partners in Crime (1929)
3. N or M? (1941)
4. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
5. Postern of Fate (1973)

Partners in Crime (short stories in which Christie provides homages to famous detectives of the day.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Hercule Poirot novels by Agatha Christie

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2. The Murder on the Links (1923)
3. Poirot Investigates (1924)
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
5. The Big Four (1927)
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
7. Peril at End House (1932)
8. Lord Edgware Dies (1933)-- aka Thirteen at Dinner
9. Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
10. Three Act Tragedy (1934) -- aka Murder in Three Acts
11. Death in the Clouds (1935) --- aka Death in the Air
12. The ABC Murders (1936)
13. Cards on the Table (1936)
14. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
15. Death on the Nile (1937)
16. Dumb Witness (1937) ---aka Poirot Loses a Client
17. Appointment with Death (1938)
18. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938) -- aka A Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas
19. Sad Cypress (1940)
20. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940) -- aka An Overdose of Death
21. Evil Under the Sun (1941)
22. Five Little Pigs (1942) -- aka Murder in Retrospect
23. The Hollow (1946) -- aka Murder after Hours
24. The Labours of Hercules (1947)
25. Taken at the Flood (1948) -- aka There Is a Tide
26. Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) -- aka Blood Will Tell
27. After the Funeral (1953) -- aka Funerals Are Fatal
28. Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
29. Dead Man's Folly (1956)
30. Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
31. The Clocks (1963)
32. Third Girl (1966)
33. Hallowe'en Party (1969)
34. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
35. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)


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Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Cat Who Mysteries by Liian Jackson Braun

1. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966)
2. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (1967)
3. The Cat Who Turned on and Off (1968)
4. The Cat Who Saw Red (1986)
5. The Cat Who Played Brahms (1987)
6. The Cat Who Played Post Office (1987)
7. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (1988)
8. The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (1988)
9. The Cat Who Went Underground (1989)
10. The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (1990)
11. The Cat Who Lived High (1990)
12. The Cat Who Knew A Cardinal (1991)
13. The Cat Who Moved A Mountain (1992)
14. The Cat Who Wasn't There (1992)
15. The Cat Who Went Into the Closet (1993)
16. The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (1994)
17. The Cat Who Blew the Whistle (1995)
18. The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996)
19. The Cat Who Tailed A Thief (1997)
20. The Cat Who Sang for the Birds (1998)
21. The Cat Who Saw Stars (1999)
22. The Cat Who Robbed A Bank (2000)
23. The Cat Who Smelled A Rat (2001)
24. The Cat Who Went Up The Creek (2002)
25. The Cat Who Brought Down The House (2003)
26. The Cat Who Talked Turkey (2004)
27. The Cat Who Went Bananas (2004)
28. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (2006)
29. The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007)
The Cat Who Had 14 Tales (1988)
The Cat Who Put Four in a Box (1999)

Short Stories, etc.
Qwilleran's Short and Tall Tales (2002)
The Private Life of the Cat Who...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journals of James MacKintosh Qwilleran (2003)
Two Cats, Three Tales (omnibus) (2006)


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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Chris Norgren mysteries by Aaron Elkins

1. A Deceptive Clarity (1987)
In Berlin to help mount an exhibit of priceless paintings, once thought lost, museum curator and Renaissance art expert Chris Norgren must turn detective when his boss is murdered soon after voicing concern over the paintings' authenticity.

2. A Glancing Light (1991)
Set in the gossipy, rumor-ridden art world, this thoroughly enjoyable mystery begins with the discovery of a fake Van Eyck and a real Rubens in the Seattle warehouse of an importer of schlock art sold en masse to hotels. Identifying the works almost instantly is ironic, self-deprecating narrator Chris Norgren, first met in Deceptive Clarity. Chris, a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, is swept up in the dangerous hunt for thieves, perhaps mafiosi, who stole the Rubens and other works in three almost simultaneous hauls--worth $100 million--in Bologna 22 months earlier.

3. Old Scores (1993)
Seattle Art Museum curator Chris Norgren falls prey to the lure of a newly discovered Rembrandt in this third in a spirited series (after A Glancing Light ). He also topples head-first out of a second-story window, but the nasty fall is happily blunted by a conveniently located car. Acquiring art isn't usually perilous, but anything is possible when the work is in the care of French dealer Rene Vachey, notorious for passing off thefts as publicity stunts. Vachey has offered the Rembrandt--if it really is a Rembrandt--as a gift to Chris's museum, with a veritable spider's web of strings attached. He will, however, permit only a cursory viewing and explicitly forbids scientific authentication. Chris, adrift in France, far from the arms of his girl, feels pretty sure that the painting is the genuine article. But after Vachey is murdered, his claim to have found the Rembrandt in a junk shop suddenly seems dubious; moreover, his employees have excellent motives to dislike him, several art experts have been burned by his outrageous exploits, and he even has that old crime fiction favorite, a deadbeat son recently dunned out of his dad's dough in a suspect will.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Gideon Oliver "The Skeleton Detective" by Aaron Elkins

1. Fellowship of Fear (1982)
2. The Dark Place (1983)
3. Murder in the Queen's Armes (1985)
4. Old Bones (1987)
5. Curses! (1989)
6. Icy Clutches (1990)
7. Make No Bones (1991)
8. Dead Men's Hearts (1994)
9. Twenty Blue Devils (1997)
10. Skeleton Dance (2000)
11. Good Blood (2004)
12. Where There's a Will (2005)
13. Unnatural Selection (2006)
14. Little Tiny Teeth (2007)
15. Uneasy Relations (2008)
16. Skull Duggery (2009)



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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Sarah Kelling Mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod

1. The Family Vault (1979)
2. The Withdrawing Room (1980)
3. The Palace Guard (1981)
4. The Bilbao Looking Glass (1983)
5. The Convivial Codfish (1984)
6. The Plain Old Man (1985)
7. The Recycled Citizen (1987)
8. The Silver Ghost (1987)
9. The Gladstone Bag (1989)
10. The Resurrection Man (1992)
11. The Odd Job (1995)
12. The Balloon Man (1998)


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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Peter Shandy Mysteries by Charlotte MacLeod

1. Rest You Merry (1978)
2. The Luck Runs Out (1979)
3. Wrack and Rune (1981)
4. Something the Cat Dragged In (1983)
5. The Curse of the Giant Hogweed (1985)
6. The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (1986)
7. Vane Pursuit (1989)
8. An Owl Too Many 1991)
9. Something in the Water (1994)
10. Exit the Milkman (1996)

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Miss Danforth Mysteries, by Marian J. A. Jackson

Official website: http://www.marianjackson.net/

"1900 had just begun when Miss Abigail Patience Danforth turned 18 and made her debut...as the world's first female consulting detective...and romance invaded the infant science of detection."

The Punjat Ruby (1990) guest-starring Conan Doyle
The Arabian Pearl (1990) guest-starring Marshall Bill Tighlman
The Cat's Eye (1991) guest-starring Jack London
Diamond Head (1992)
The Sunken Treasure (1994) guest-starring Harry Houdini

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Paul Temple and the Van Dyke Affair, episode 6

I'm working on a website for the Paul Temple radio programs starring Peter Coke (pronounced Cook) and Marjorie Westbury. (There used to be one, but it was on the Geocities free side, and when they closed that a couple of years, the website disappeared.

Rather than put cast lists on notebook paper where I will probably lose them, I'll put them in this blog.

Never heard of Paul Temple? Check him out on Wikipedia. Truth to tell, I don't really care for the mysteries - they are all formulaic, but I like the two leads and it is amusing to listen to all the incredibly convoluted twists and turns in the plots.

1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 1 of 8 - The Sitter-in
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 2 of 8 - The Marlow Incident
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 3 of 8 - Introducing Mr. Droste
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 4 of 8 - Boulevard Seminaire
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 5 of 8 - Roger Shelly Makes a Suggestion
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 6 of 8 - Suspect Number One
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 7 of 8 - Steve Entertains
1959 - Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair - 8 of 8 - Presenting Mr. Vandyke

Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair, pt 6 - the first time some of the cast have been identified by name instead of as "part of the BBC drama repertory company."

Britishisms - a babysitter is a "sitter-in"

Paul Temple - Peter Coke
Steve - Marjorie Westbury
Charlie - James Beattie
Sir Graham Forbes - Lester Mudditt [according to BBC Audio Crime CD release. But according to BBC Radio 7, it was Roger Williams)
Inspector Eden - Frederick Treves
Terry Palmer - Peter Wilde
Mary Desmond - June Tobin
Queenie Edwards - Armine Sandford
Madame Flaubert - Catherine Salkeld
Bert Walters - Haydn Jones
Roger Shelly - Richard Hurndall
Bill McCall - John Scott
Sergeant Digby - David Spenser
Philip Droste - Simon Lack
Vanessa Droste - Grizelda Hervey
Charles Marett - John Bryning
Newsvendor (Louis Franz) - Rolf Lefebyre
Luke - Jon Farrell
Telephone Operator - Betty Baskcomb
Receptionist - Beatrice Ormonde
Waiter - David March
Dr Foy - John Graham
Marian Faber - Betty Hardy
other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

Produced by Martyn C. Webster



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Monday, November 1, 2010

Ministry is Murder series

The Ministry is Murder series is written by Emilie Richards. Aggie-Sloan Wilcox is the wife of a minister. She has an eccentric mother who has had many husbands. She has two half-sisters, each from a different father, each one also eccentric, and two girl children ust moving into their teens, with all the problems that implies.

Blessed is the Busybody (2005)
When the naked body of a murdered woman turns up on Aggie's front porch--and suspicion falls on Aggie's husband--she doesn't have a prayer of clearing his name unless she can uncover the truth in a town not known for confessing its sins.

Let There Be Suspects (topic: Christmas) (2006)
With the chalk outline gone from their front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband think they can resume their lives. But when Ginger, Aggie's despised former foster sister, comes for Christmas, and turns up dead as a drumstick, Aggie's sister is suspected. Now it's up to Aggie to find the real murderer-who's decided there's a loophole in thou shalt not kill.

Beware False Profits (2007)
Joe Wagner, president of Emerald Springs's food bank, disappears, and Aggie discovers his secret life-as a female impersonator. Meanwhile, the murder of the mayor's wife at the annual food bank fundraiser puts Joe on top of the suspect list. If Aggie doesn't get to the bottom of things fast, she'll be leading a choir singing the blues.

A Lie for a Lie (2009)
When the ex-wife of a local celebrity is charged with his murder, minister’s wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox seeks divine inspiration to help clear her name.

A Truth for a Truth (2010)
After a former minister dies suddenly upon his return to Emerald Springs, his memorial service is cut just as short. Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, wide of the current minister, knows why. The poor old guy was murdered. But who in this bucolic village could be capable of such a crime?