2013 Reviews

Peter Abrahams
Down the Rabbit Hole  3 stars

Joan Aiken
The Silence of Herondale  3 stars

Brenda Ashford
A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story  4.5 stars

Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending   3 stars

Maryka Biaggio
Parlor Games 3 stars

Earl Derr Biggers
The Chinese Parrot  3.5 stars 

Lionel Black
Death Has Green Fingers  3.5 stars
 
Kit Brennan
Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards 3 stars

Alice Campbell 
Veiled Murder 1.5 stars

Carol K Carr
India Black & the Shadows of Anarchy 4.5 stars 

Erskine Childers
The Riddle of the Sands  2.5 stars

Ernest Cline
Ready Player One 4 stars

George Harmon Coxe
Inland Passage  3 stars 

Jeanne M. Dams
The Corpse at St. James's 3 stars
A Dark & Stormy Night 3 stars
The Evil That Men Do  2.5 stars

Norbert Davis
Sally's in the Alley  4 stars

A. B. (Agnes) De Mille
Three English Comedies  3.5 stars

Carter Dickson
The Cavalier's Cup 3 stars
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp  3 stars

Eilis Dillon
Death at Crane's Court  4 stars

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow 4 stars

Mignon G. Eberhart
The Mystery of Hunting's End  4.5 stars

Martin Edwards
The Frozen Shroud  4 stars


Harlan Ellison
Slippage 4.5 stars 

Roger Elwood (ed)
The Other Side of Tomorrow 3 stars

Margaret Erskine
Sleep No More  3 stars 

E. X. Ferrars
Choice of Evils  3 stars 
 
Sean Ferrell
Man in the Empty Suit 3.75 stars 

Owen Fitzstephen
Hammett Unwritten  4 stars

Leslie Ford
The Devil's Stronghold  4 stars

C. S. Forester
The African Queen  4 stars 

Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Negligent Nymph 3 stars

Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield  2 stars

Amy Butler Greenfield
A Perfect Red  2 stars

Kerry Greenwood
Cocaine Blues  3.5 stars
Unnatural Habits 4 stars

Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road  5 stars

Sarah J. Henry
A Cold & Lonely Place  4 stars 

Elspeth Huxley
Murder on Safari  3 stars

Dana Johnson
Break Any Woman Down  4 stars 

Rufus King
Holiday Homicide  4 stars

Jonathan Latimer
The Lady in the Morgue  3 stars

Laura Lippman
The Girl in the Green Raincoat  4 stars

Frances & Richard Lockridge
Murder Within Murder  4 stars 

Anne McCaffrey
The White Dragon 2 stars

David Morrell
Murder as a Fine Art  5 stars

Grant Overton (ed)
The World's 100 Best Short Stories, Vol. III: Mystery 3 stars

Stuart Palmer 
 Four Lost Ladies 2 stars 
The Puzzle of the Silver Persian 3.5 stars
Unhappy Hooligan  3 stars

Sean Pidgeon
Finding Camlann  2 stars

Stefanie Pintoff
In the Shadow of Gotham  3 stars

 E. K. Prescott
The Ivy League Chronicles: 9 Squares  1 star

Patrick Quentin
Black Widow  2 stars

Alastair Reynolds
Zima Blue & Other Stories 3.5 stars

Scott Russell Sanders
The Private History of Awe  5 stars 

Margaret Scherf
The Diplomat & the Gold Piano  2.75 stars
The Green Plaid Pants  3.75 stars

Charles Sheffield
The Web Between the Worlds 3 stars 

Ragna Sigurdardottir
The Perfect Landscape  2 stars

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
The Man Who Went up in Smoke 3 stars


Patricia Sprinkle
 Murder at Markham 3 stars

Kay Cleaver Strahan
The Desert Moon Mystery 3.5 stars

Donna Tartt
The Secret History  4 stars

Darwin L. Teilhet
The Talking Sparrow Murders  2.75 stars

Emily Thorn
Aaron's Serpent 3 stars  

P. L. Travers
Mary Poppins  3 stars

Arthur W. Upfield
The Mountains Have a Secret  3.75 stars

Patricia Wentworth
Miss Silver Deals With Death  3 stars 

Ethel Lina White
The Lady Vanishes (aka The Wheel Spins)  2.5 stars

Gregory Widen
Blood Makes Noise  3.5 stars 

Philip Wylie
Corpses at Indian Stones 4 stars

Carol E. Wyer
How Not to Murder Your Grumpy  3 stars