Fidelis walked home from the great war in twelve days and slept thirty-eight hours once he crawled into his childhood bed. -- The Master ...

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 – 1957) was a renowned English author, best known for her series of mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Lord Pet...

Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice. -- Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Say...

And he was so young. . . .  She had no objection to some men being young -- waiters, for instance, or policemen or representatives of the ...

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The summer day was drawing to a close and dusk had fallen on Blandings Castle, shrouding from view the ancient battlements, dulling the s...

Dick Francis is an all-time favorite of mine.  So when I say that he had a formula for his novels, I don't mean to deride the quality...

I was born in San Francisco, California.  -- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein. This is one of those books that I ...

All the snooty teenage scorn I'd felt for "money-grubbing," all the supercilious disapproval of my student days, all the neg...

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With a Jug of Wine: An Unusual Collection of Cooking Recipes by Morrison Wood, "well known food columnist" -- it says so right...

  Charles Frazier won the National Book Award for Cold Mountain , his Civil war novel about a Confederate deserter and the woman waiting ...

It used to seem extraordinary to me that someone like Henry could actually exist, extraordinary that a person could be transported into ...

I think most Americans would shudder at the thought of eating squid, although the meat is twice as sweet as lobster and as delicate as fr...

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The Losing Role is a WWII espionage story from the German point of view, based on an actual German spy mission in which English-speaking ...

"Once upon a time there was a DELUXE young lad by the name of HORACE, who was classified 3F." -- from the Introduction to With...

"At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring." -- Cold Mountain by Charles Frasier. This has been sitting on my T...

"Espinoza and a crowd of prisoners were waiting for Max, Zoock, Felix, and Braun in front of Barrack 13.  On the front steps were a...

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"Max lay flat on his back, in the mud." -- The Losing Role by Steve Anderson.  This is a WWII espionage story from the German...

Started Early, Took My Dog is the fourth and latest in Kate Atkinson's series of super smart mysteries featuring Jackson Brodie. Like...

Every year about this time, I get an urge to make over my blog.  Maybe it is that Spring is in the air -- there is a spirit of rebirth all a...

It took me a long time to stumble across Ian Rankin 's Inspector John Rebus series, but now I am hooked. I have also started his Mal...

"The spell of the hushed garden had held me for a brief moment only, the scent of roses and the glow of the setting sun, but it was...

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