I’ve been going through my TBR pile, matching books to bingo squares and these are my tentative plans so far, totally subject to change without notice.
ROW 2
I was going to do a re-read of Sherlock Holmes, but I’ve just found Martin Edwards’ anthology Capital Crimes on the TBR so I’m going with a selection of stories chosen by whim for this square.
I thought this was going to be a bridge too hard and planned to use a Spell Pack card, but I pulled Amanda Flowers’ Murders and Metaphors off the shelf, and voila! A Black Cat. Sorted.
Too easy and likely one I’ll just choose when I’m ready to start reading a cozy.
TBD
Stuart Palmer’s The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan has been lingering on the TBR for awhile now; it’s either going to be a hoot or tedious. Time to find out which.
Usually this one is tough for me, but I found the first one in this series last year and enjoyed it enough to order the next two, leaving me sorted with Ovidia Yu’s The Betel Nut Tree Mystery
That Capital Crimes anthology is probably one of the few from BLCC that I won‘t be getting to this summer, so I‘ll be looking forward to your impressions. BT was lukewarm about it IIRC …
Oh, I hope The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan is good. The cover cracked me up.
Oh, and I finished Capital Crimes not long ago. A mixed bag, but enjoyable overall.
I plan to pick and choose for the square, rather than tackle the whole thing – any particular favorites?
Yes, tho two of my favourites might not work as well for you (they’re more at home in the “horror” genre) – those are ACD’s The Case of Lady Sannox and Hugh Walpole’s The Silver Mask.
But I loved The Stealer of Marble by Edgar Wallace and The Tea Leaf by Robert Eustace and Edgar Jepson.
But… but it’s ACD. I have to read ACD. Too bad he’s not a yank; I could use it for American Horror Square. :p
I did write some non-spoilery notes on Capital Crimes:
https://brokentuneblog.com/2020/06/27/capital-crimes-london-mysteries-various-authors-martin-edwards/
I’ve no idea why I didn’t add notes on the last few stories. I’m terrible at remembering short stories, and now feel like I need to re-read them because…yup, I can’t remember what they were about, or which one was which.
LOL…
I’m remedying the incomplete list and am re-reading the stories. Updated notes will be added to the post shortly. It’s practically like reading the stories the first time, except for the Delafield story. I read the first line and it came back instantly what the story was about. 😀
Oh, looking forward to the updates then! 🙂
Updates should show on the post now. The Delafield story was great.