
Review by robinwalter - Mystery Villa
When it comes to that exalted icon of golden age mystery fiction, Dorothy Sayers, I may well b...

Review by robinwalter - Bloody Instructions
Before Dean Street Press announced that they would be publishing the first five of her Anthon...

Review by robinwalter - Information Received
Information Received is the first in E. R. Punshon's Bobby Owen mystery series. The Dean Str...

Review by robinwalter - Hemlock Bay
This is the fifth Rachel Savernake book, and the fourth I've read. I've enjoyed all four, but ...

Review by robinwalter - How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
In The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy there's a passage that reads as follows: ‘So this is ...

Review by robinwalter - Black Arsenal
In the preface to black Arsenal the purpose and intent of the book is summed up in these words...

Review by robinwalter - An Unholy Drought
The second book in the Delhi Quartet series this was a big read. A lot of action-packed histor...

Review by robinwalter - Cabaret Macabre
Probably my favourite Spector so far. SO MANY of the characters needed killing, and almost all...

Review by robinwalter - The Annotated Mansfield Park
The sharpest and most acidic of Austen's works I've read, but the rapier wit and incontestable...

Review by robinwalter - The Book Forger
A month before reading this book, I read a famous best seller about the history of maritime ho...