#MurderEveryMonday Title with a word to do with smell: Sad Cypress

For today's #MurderEveryMonday I had to share Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie - cypresses have scent. It's not very well known, but it's one of my favorite reads. I also love the David Suchet TV series' episode with Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Elinor Carlisle. The book starts with Elinor Carlisle in court, accused of murder. We go back in time through Elinor perspective first to know the context, the second part of the book sees Poirot entering the scene, asked by his friend Doctor Peter Lord - is this a nod to Sayers' Lord Peter?

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#MurderEveryMonday cover with “something a baby or child would use”

The centre of Portugal has been devastated by storms and flooding. More than a week later, we still have thousands of people without electricity. Our region didn't suffer as much as the centre, but we are all bracing ourselves for new storms in the next days. Still, I wanted to share a cover for today's #MurderEveryMonday, "cover depicting something a baby or child would use"

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/murdereverymonday-cover-with-something-a-baby-or-child-would-use/

#MurderEveryMonday A special edition

Today's #MurderEveryMonday is a title with a word that starts with the letter Q. I'm hoping I can use the title in Portuguese for this one, because it is the perfect excuse to tell you about a special edition, that is not much known. The book chosen is The Floating Admiral, which title was translated to Portuguese as Quem Matou o Almirante?

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#MurderEveryMonday A special edition

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday is a title with a word that starts with the letter Q. I’m hoping I can use the title in Portuguese for this one, because it is the perfect excuse to tell you about a special edition, that is not much known.

The book chosen is The Floating Admiral, which title was translated to Portuguese as Quem Matou o Almirante?

The story was written by the members of The Detection Club and in a round-robin format, meaning each author would write a chapter to continue the story without knowing how it would go. The publishers of the Colecção Vampiro, a book collection I’ve been talking about in this blog, decided to published this book when the collection reached 500 volumes in March of 1989. But besides the regular edition that follows the design of the other volumes in the collection, they also decided to publish a special limited and numbered edition in a totally different design. This is bigger book, it’s a paperback, but has a dust jacket with the title and the logo (the bat) of the collection embossed in. It is also printed in a much better and thicker paper. Both volumes have a list of all the titles published in the collection up to number 500 and their date of publication (I’m always forgetting this resource!).

#BookLook #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #MurderEveryMonday #readings #TheDetectionClub

It's Monday here now and this week's #MurderEveryMonday is "set in Scandinavia" so ofc this was the first one I thought of. Murders by the truckload AND a mystery:

Bart Simpson wondered how any story where everybody dies could be so boring. 😆 #Reading #Bookstodon

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#MurderEveryMonday Crime Fiction Novel made into a film

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday I’m choosing two of my favourite book adaptations into a film:

• Witness for the Prosecution by Billy Wilder (with Marlene Dietrich) from 1957
• And Then There Were None by Rene Clair from 1945

Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag and share your covers.

#BookLook #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #livros #MurderEveryMonday #Policiais #readings

#MurderEveryMonday Crime Fiction Novel made into a film

For today's #MurderEveryMonday I'm choosing two of my favourite book adaptations into a film: Witness for the Prosecution by Billy Wilder (with Marlene Dietrich) from 1957 And Then There Were None by Rene Clair from 1945 Check Kate's blog to know more about the hashtag and share your covers.

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/murdereverymonday-crime-fiction-novel-made-into-a-film/