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Martin Fone
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My thoughts on The Fingerprint by #PatriciaWentworth #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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The Fingerprint
A review of The Fingerprint by Patricia Wentworth – 251003 As Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver series draws to a close The Fingerprint, the thirtieth of thirty-two and originally published in 1956,…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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The first #radio transmitted #newspaper - it only took 6 hours to download 12 pages! #technology
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The First Downloadable Newspaper
Print or digital is a burning question with many traditional newspapers and journals finding that they increasingly have to share content digitally to attract readers and advertising revenue. Many …
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November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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My thoughts on The Odd Flamingo by Nina Bawden #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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The Odd Flamingo
A review of The Odd Flamingo by Nina Bawden – 251002 Nina Bawden is best known as a children’s writer and a novelist, but she cut her writing teeth writing crime fiction. The Odd Flamingo, or…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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My thoughts on Nursery Tea and Poison, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Nursery Tea And Poison
A review of Nursery Tea and Poison by Anne Morice – 250925 Tessa Crichton, actress and wife of Robin Price, an up and coming star of the Yard, is one of those people that cannot resist a mystery an…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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When Harry #Houdini met Sir Arthur #ConanDoyle #spiritualism
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Houdini And Conan Doyle
For aficionados of crime fiction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the doyen of writers, the creator of the world’s most instantly recognizable sleuth, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful, if rather dim, com…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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My thoughts on As If By Magic, an anthology of impossible crimes #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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As If By Magic
A review of As If By Magic edited by Michael Edwards – 250924 As If By Magic is the latest collection of short stories compiled and edited by the indefatigable Michael Edwards for the British Libra…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The story of Harry #Houdini and the #Spiritualists #Halloween
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Houdini And The Spiritualists
It takes one to know one, they say. For years Harry Houdini had astounded his audiences with his daring feats of escapology and legerdemain. After his mother had died, by his own admission he atten…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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The #spooky and macabre #Dennison #Automata #BlackpoolTower #Blackpool
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The Dennison Automata
Lot 207 in Bonham Skinner’s Science, Technology, and Clocks auction held on June 2, 2012 was the rather gruesome St. Dennistoun Mortuary Coin-Operated Automaton. It was a mahogany cabinet revealing…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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My thoughts on #Maigret's Dead Man #GeorgesSimenon #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Maigret’s Dead Man
A review of Maigret’s Dead Man by Georges Simenon – 250924 By Simenon’s standards this book, the twenty-ninth in his Maigret series, originally published in 1948 and also going by the alternative t…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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How the #pHScale was developed #science #Carlsberg
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The pH Scale
Carlsberg is prone to describing itself as probably the best beer in the world, but while that claim is eminently debatable, what is far clearer is that it had a hand in the development of the pH s…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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My thoughts on Jane and Prudence by #BarbaraPym #BookReview #booksky
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Jane And Prudence
A review of Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym – 250913 On the face of it, Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates, the principal characters of this, the third novel by Barbara Pym, originally published in…
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October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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My thoughts on Murder in Piccadilly #CrimeFicion #BookReview #booksky
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Murder In Piccadilly
A review of Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston Murder in Piccadilly is the first book in Charles Kingston’s Chief Inspector Wake series and was originally published in 1936 and has been subse…
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October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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A #wine that is over 400 years old, has only been drunk three times and probably will never be again #Strasbourg
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The Fabled Wine Of Strasbourg
Ever since 1395 the Hôpital civil de Strasbourg has had a symbiotic relationship with the Cave Historique des Hospices de Strasbourg which lies directly underneath it. Patients used to travel from …
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October 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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My thoughts on The Case of the Extra Grave, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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The Case Of The Extra Grave
A review of The Case of the Extra Grave by Christopher Bush – 250911 The fifty-fifth in Christopher Bush’s Ludovic Travers series was originally published in 1961 and subsequently reissued by Dean …
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October 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The man who defied convention by being buried upside down and vertically on #BoxHill
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Upside Down In A Box On Box Hill
Born in Dublin to a family of French Huguenot descent, Peter Labelliere joined the British army, rising to the rank of Major. After leaving the army he became a political agitator, accused in 1775 …
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October 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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My thoughts on Killing with Kindness, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Killing With Kindness
A review of Killing with Kindness by Anne Morice – 250903 There is a distinct change o tone in this the seventh in Anne Morice’s Tessa Crichton series, originally published in 1974 and reissu…
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October 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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My thoughts on Fault in the Structure by Gladys Mitchell #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Fault In The Structure
A review of Fault In The Structure by Gladys Mitchell – 250830 Fault in the Structure, the fifty-second in Mitchell’s long-running and often perplexing Mrs Bradley series, originally published in 1…
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October 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Coneys, #rabbit farming, and #pillowmounds
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Pillow Mounds
Rabbits, unlike hares, are not indigenous to the United Kingdom. Whilst there is some archaeological evidence that rabbits were eaten in Romano-Britain – in 2001 the remains of a rabbit bearing mar…
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October 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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My thoughts on Sparkling Cyanide by #AgathaChristie #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Sparkling Cyanide
A review of Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie – 250828 Also known as Remembered Death and originally published in 1944, Sparkling Cyanide features two deaths by cyanide poisoning, the firs…
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October 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Covering the rise and fall of the #doily
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The Rise And Fall Of Doilies
A common feature on furniture for much of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, doilies were an open form of lace or cotton with intricate designs, the more intricate the better,…
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October 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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My thoughts on Dover Three by Joyce Porter #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Dover Three
A review of Dover Three by Joyce Porter – 250826 It takes a particular type of skill to be grossly obnoxious, lazy, a sponger off anyone foolish enough to show any signs of a hospitable nature, to …
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October 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Typo? Blame it on #Titivillus
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Titivillus
For anyone who spends time with the written word, either as a creator or as reader, typographical errors are a bugbear. Of course, human textual editors and, these days, software packages do their …
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October 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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My thoughts on And Cauldron Bubble by #BrianFlynn, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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And Cauldron Bubble
A review of And Cauldron Bubble by Brian Flynn – 250824 Double, double, toil and trouble. The thirty-ninth in Flynn’s Anthony Bathurst series, originally published in 1951 and the fourth in the bat…
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October 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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How #bloodpressure came to be measured
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Sphygmomanometer
A visit to a doctor’s surgery often involves a check on blood pressure. To do that one of the patient’s arms is put inside an inflatable cuff which collapses and releases the artery under the cuff …
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October 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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My thoughts on Murder with Relish by Guy Cullingford #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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Murder With Relish
A review of Murder With Relish by Guy Cullingford – 2508 I came across Guy Cullingford through a short story in Martin Edwards’ British Library Crime Classics collection Cyanide in the Sun, a tale …
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October 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM