A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - Lawrence Block

 

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA - Anthony Hope

 

A romance / adventure where a rather lazy young Englishman finds himself first impersonating the King of Ruritania and then leading the mission to rescue this King.

Published in 1894 this style of story has been copied by many down through the years, Dornford Yates in the first instance.  It is a swashbuckling adventure where good and decency wins the day.

A nice easy read and one to be ticked off the list.

I,THE JURY - Mickey Spillane

 Finally got around to reading this.  Its a decent bit of entertainment.  Not a great mystery, the writings clunky as you'd expect with a first effort &  I suppose it was blatant regarding sex and violence when it was first published.

Hammer is a C grade Lew Archer in the hard boiled PI stakes.  

THE HANGED MAN OF SAINT- PHOLIEN - Georges Simenon

 

Always readable.

THE CLUE OF THE NEW SHOE - Arthur Upfield

 

A body is found stuffed into a locker inside a automatic Light house on Australia's southern coast.

Bony is brought in to solve the murder.  Again , a good solid mystery

THE SAILOR RENDEZ-VOUS - Georges Simenon

 

After returning from a three months fishing trip to the Grand Banks the Captain is found strangled on the anchor chain.

Maigret is approached by the girlfriend of the suspect who has been arrested fto prove he wasn't responsible.

Always solid writing .

THE WITCH OF THE LOW TIDE - John Dickson Carr

 A woman is found strangled in a bathing shed setting off an investigation involving Harley Street doctors and Scotland Yard Detectives.

This is one of the best Carr's I've read.  His mysteries are generally of a 'locked room' variety but this has several very unlikeable characters as well and actually keeps you guessing to the end.  An excellent read