#MurderEveryMonday “the man” or “the woman” in the title

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday theme is “the men” or “the woman” in the title. I went through the Portuguese collection Vampiro to find all the titles. We have more men than women. I’m considering the titles in Portuguese, and when different I will write the original title. Also all the titles in Portuguese have “the man” (o homem) or “the woman” (a mulher) as you can see from the photos, but when translating the Portuguese titles into English we must change the order of the words, so it makes sense.

• The powerful man – Michael Spillane (original title: The Deep)
• The man in the bed number 10 – Mary R. Rinehart (original title: The man in lower 10) – read it and liked it
• The sinister man – Edgar Wallace – read and liked it
• Maigret and the man from the bench – Georges Simenon (Maigret et L’Homme du banc) – favourite cover by the artist Lima de Freitas, not sure if I read this one, but usually like Simenon and recommend
• The shadow man – Dashiell Hammett (original title: The thin man)
• Maigret and the man with two women – Georges Simenon (original title: Liberty Bar)
• Maigret and the solitary men – Georges Simenon (original title: Maigret et L’Homme tout seul)

The man in the brown suit and The man in lower 10 were the first titles I remember could do for today’s hashtag. This book by Agatha Christie is not her usually murder mystery, but it is more on the side of adventure novels and I also like she borrowed from her trip with the British Empire Expedition.

There is less “the woman” in the collection.

• Maigret and the vanished woman – Georges Simenon (original title: Chez les flamands)
• The quiet woman – Harry Carmichael (I have read this author as Hartley Howard and liked it, I’m curious about this one. Real name: Leopold Ognall)
• The phantom woman – William Irish (original title: The phantom lady. Read this one a long time ago and liked it)
• The woman that was not missed – Dorothy Simpson (original title: Dead and gone. Can’t remember if I ever read Simpson, although the name rings a bell).

Back to your covers. If you want to participate in #MurderEveryMonday check Kate’s post here.

#AgathaChristie #BookLook #books #classicCrime #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #GeorgesSimenon #MurderEveryMonday #readings

#MurderEveryMonday “the man” or “the woman” in the title

Today's #MurderEveryMonday theme is "the men" or "the woman" in the title. I went through the Portuguese #ColecçãoVampiro to find all the titles. We have more men than women.

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/murdereverymonday-the-man-or-the-woman-in-the-title/

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a bus

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday cover of a crime fiction book with a bus, I didn’t have many covers, but thought London would never disappoint and it didn’t!

The Portuguese edition is At Betram’s Hotel, a Miss Marple book by Agatha Christie, which I love and have been re-reading over the years. The title is translated to Portuguese as “Mystery in Luxury Hotel” and in this one Miss Marple goes to Bertram’s, an hotel she stayed in when she was 14 years old with her aunt and uncle. Bertram’s seems to have stopped in time. Again, Miss Marple gathers her down to earth wisdom and acute observation to solve the mystery.

Janet Morgan, the official biographer of Christie, uses correspondence between Agatha Christie and her literary agent, Edmund Cork, to argue Bertram’s seems to have been modelled after the Flemings Mayfair Hotel.

I also loved Gilbert’s book, with its writing and its setting in a law firm and an original way of hiding a corpse, that would never have crossed my mind.

#MurderEveryMonday is an hashtag created by Kate Jackson from Cross Examining Crime and anyone can participate via their social networks. Kate in on Twitter and Instagram, and you can find the themes of each Monday in her blog here. She recently opened up a Patreon, so if you can support her, you can go here and see the extras you can get.

Besides Twitter and Instagram, I also have been participating on my Mastodon and Bluesky, but I find those types of social are more ephemerous, so I thought I would try using this blog.

#AgathaChristie #BookLook #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #MichaelGilbert #MurderEveryMonday #Policiais #readings

For today's #MurderEveryMonday (facial hair)

• More or less at the same time #colecçãovampiro there was another collection of crime fiction in Portugal called #ColecçãoXIS and now and then they would published some numbers as anthologies of short stories
• While searching for moustaches I found this three books with similar covers. It seems Biggers books were made into movies with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (depicted in the covers)
• Finally, a facsimile of a Poirot (because that's the first I thought of when knowing about today's theme) 😃

Follow Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#books #readings #crimefiction #EarlDerrBiggers #AgathaChristie #Poirot #ClassicCrime #bookstodon

#MurderEveryMonday Cover
with a broken or smashed object:
#ColecçãoVampiro has many authors of what's called hard boiled subgenre, so one would expect broken and smashed things right and left. And indeed, I found many objects (glasses, stools, pipes,
bicycles) turned over, but clearly they must have been of the most high quality because none of them were broken
l've shared recently a broken compact, but I wanted to get a different cover, and found this one. Original
title isThe Case of the One-Eyed Witness.
Thank you to Kate for the hashtag, you can check her blog to know more
https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

#CrimeFiction #Books #Bookstodon #BookCovers
#ErleStanleyGardner #PerryMason

#MurderEveryMonday crime fiction with playing cards on the cover
None of my Christie's Cards on the Table editions have playing cards.

I think I never read anything by any of these authors.
Titles in ALT description

#MurderEveryMonday #ColecçãoVampiro

I'm halfway through "Agatha Christie's Poirot" by Mark Aldridge and it's being a delight (swipe for the cover). My preference goes to the context, discussing, and analysis Aldridge does for each work and adaptation, but the book is full of "extras" that add up to the arguments, like unpublished excerpts from Christie's autobiography, interviews, letters, reader reports, reactions at the time to the book's publication, visual and radio adaptations, some of which did not survive, but others that are still available, showing the rigorous and huge amount of work and research Aldridge must have put into this book.
The text is accompanied by book covers from editions through time and different countries. Some of these, depicting Poirot. As a reader that sometimes feels the adaptation doesn't portray the characters quiet as I imagined them, I do understand the resistance Christie had with depictions of Poirot. Still, I find it interesting to see how he was portrayed.
So, I thought I would share some of Portuguese book covers that depict Poirot. These are from the Portuguese collection, #ColecçãoVampiro, that was quite important for the dissemination of the genre in Portugal. The collection has more than 700 volumes and it was published between 1947 and 2008.

#AgathaChristie #Poirot @bookstodon #Books

Edited to add tags

In this #WorldBookDay I'm sharing a #bookhaul we got from a library near by that was selling used #books.

1 - England Today by the Portuguese Historian Oliveira Martins (a limited edition), a collection of travel letters about England (London, mostly?) originally published in a newspaper from Brasil in 1892, which I'm most curious about.
2 - A Portuguese translation of Jane Eyre
3 - The Halloween Tree by Bradbury translated as The Sacred Tree part of the #ColecçãoArgonauta that was published in Portugal more or less as a similar collection as #ColecçãoVampiro but for science fiction works
4 - Two volumes titled Facts, Persons, and Books. A collection of previously published (1953 - 1961) articles about literary genres, authors, language, translation, and other book related subjects
5 - A manual that teaches the process of bookbinding

The last two photos are from the beautiful #library building in #Armamar in north of Portugal #biblioteca #Libraries #bookstagram

Calendário do Advento Vampiro Magazine #ColecçãoVampiro

A partir de amanhã, vou publicar neste blog um post por dia durante 24 dias. Cada artigo falará de um dos 24 volumes da revista Vampiro Magazine, publicada em Portugal entre 1950 e 1952, que acompanhou durante esse tempo a publicação de romances policiais na Colecção Vampiro. Quero sobretudo registar os títulos e autores que foram publicados e dar uma ideia de como era a revista.

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/calendario-do-advento-vampiro-magazine-coleccaovampiro/