An eccentric but ostensibly brilliant author has a new book ready for translation. She summons her equally odd but insightful translators to her home on the edge of the Bialowieza forest reserve in Poland. They all get together, go through the manuscript and spend all day translating from Polish into their respective languages. But this…
REVIEW: Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge
When it is confirmed that her sister did not survive the Arctic, Maude is secretly given her sister’s journal by a sympathetic representative within the Admiralty. She determines to discover and expose the truth.
REVIEW: The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries
I am pleased Sims has pulled together another interesting collection of short stories, most of which I had never heard of before. All told, the collection contains more than 300 pages of murder mysteries waiting to be rediscovered.
REVIEW: West Heart Kill
Agatha Christie taught us a century ago, a narrator needn’t be telling the reader the truth, nor must the detective himself. But surely the omniscient narrator has no ulterior motives. Right?
REVIEW: 1923 – The Mystery of Lot 212
On a whim, Boultin’s friend sent him an auction listing for a scrap of silent film reel that was labelled Tour de France. He won Lot 212 and embarked on a three-year, multinational odyssey to preserve the film and restore it to its place in history, however small that might be.