VÍDEO: Delegado e #policiais civis do RJ são presos por #extorquir membros do Comando Vermelho

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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice was first published on 28th of January of 1813 and is one of my (and so many others) favorite novels of all time. If you never read it, do not go thinking it is a love story. Well, it’s kind of, but it’s so much more: It’s a comedy of manners and social criticism.

“I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least I do not know.“
Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra on the 29th of January of 1823

Elizabeth Bennet is one of my favourite characters: she is intelligent, witty, has no problems to recognise she was mistaken, but also she embodies women independence and resistance. We can see this when she decides to walk to Netherfield, instead of waiting for the carriage, to check on her sister or, when in Rosings, Elizabeth is playing the piano and says to Mr. Darcy:

“My fingers,” said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault—because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution.”

There are many editions of Pride & Prejudice, some with introductions or annotated that give more insights on the text, but if you want to read it right now, head over to Project Gutenberg that has the edition with the illustrations by Hugh Thomson. You can read it or download it here.

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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.

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#MurderEveryMonday title hints to something not visible

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday is a “crime fiction title which hints that something has disappeared or is not visible”.

I went through my shelves and the majority of books I could find were about someone disappearing, instead of something, but I decided to go with it.

My first thought went to The Invisible Host by Gwen Bristol and Bruce Manning, published in 1930, with a close setting where people start dying. Later, Agatha Christie worked the same idea for And Then There Were None. Loved both books, and I thank Dean Street Press (check the link to see their crime fiction titles) to republished the Host so we could read it today. Do you know other books with a similar idea? Let me know in the comments, I would love to read them.

My second thought was The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin because while maybe “moving” doesn’t hint to a disappearance, the blurb at the back is very clear: this toyshop vanishes during the night. How and why would a toyshop vanish? Read the book, it’s a good one and the Oxford Professor Gervase Fen is on the case. It’s also the only book that hints at something instead of someone.

Then, I thought of “Poirot loses a Client” (the book in the middle, same title both in Portuguese and American English). Mainly because this Christie Portuguese publisher used already made translations from Brazil, back in the 1950/60s, probably cheaper than to get a translation from scratch, and I also have this idea that Brazil would use the American editions to translate, maybe because they were closer and was easier to negotiate with the American publishers than with the UK ones. But this one is the UK’s Dumb’s Witness. And it reminded me that John Curran published in his Secret Notebooks, for the first time, a similar short story that was later found in Agatha Christie papers, called The Incident of the Dog’s Ball (albeit the culprit is different).

You know I love Poirot, but it does seem he’s a little bit careless sometimes with this thing of loosing clients. And while the titles don’t hint at it, it also happens in the short stories A Cornish Mystery and How does Your Garden Grow?, both from the Poirot’s Early Cases (first book in the photo) and also in the novel Murder on the Links.

Someone engages Poirot to look into or do something and then, they’re gone. Where did his clients go or why? I’m not spilling it. Read the books :-)

Finally, I found The Phantom Lady by William Irish that starts with a man talking to a woman in a bar, without catching her name. When he returns home something happens and then he needs to find the woman of the bar to do something, but she vanished.

The Raymond Chandler one is translated as A Woman was Lost, and is in fact Farewell, My Lovely. With Chandler, I’m never sure if I know Philip Marlowe (the detective) from the movies, the old time radio shows, or the books. This is the melancholic, cynic, private eye, whiskey, guns, and the femme fatale. If you like the sub-genre hardboiled, Chandler is always a good option.

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#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a clock on the cover

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday I found many clocks on the cover. The Verdict of Us All was a recent second hand find. These are short stories by members of The Detection Club in honour of HRF Keating. I have a list of The Detection Club works here and I’m determined to read them all. The problem is it is quite difficult to find some of the older titles so I was really happy to find this one. I’m saving it to read at the end of the year.

Thrones, Dominations is one of the books Jill Patton Walsh wrote to continue the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy L. Sayers. I’ve read these books a long time ago, but I think I liked them. I’m re-reading Sayers books by publication order and will get to these again.

The only thing I know about Joel Townsley Rogers (The stopped Clock in the photo) is that he is an American writer.

The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner is a Perry Mason one. Can’t remember if I read this one, but I always liked his books.

Finally, in this series with clock on the cover and clock on the title (both in English and in Portuguese), I found The Talking Clock by Frank Gruber. I associate Gruber with the American hard-boiled crime fiction., so not very curious to read it.

I had to add some Agatha Christie’s. The Clocks (in an English and Portuguese edition) is not very well known, but it’s an example of Hercule Point being challenged to solve a murder from his armchair, as he sometimes claims it is possible.

I also add The Seven Dials Mystery (The Mystery of the Seven Clocks in Portuguese) because clocks play a role in the story and with The Mystery of Chimneys, from which it gets some characters, including Superintendent Battle, has a special space in my favourite shelves. No clocks on the cover, though.

From these, I can recommend Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, probably and rightly one of the most known Christie’s Poirot books. I also like Ellery Queen (Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper, Portuguese title of A Study in Terror) and Edgar Wallace (Room 13).

Never read Magdalen Nabb. The book, Some Bitter Taste, occurs in Florence, Italy, and I could give it a go.

One of the things I like more about this hashtag is that not only I find books by others sharing their covers, but sometimes I find authors I didn’t know I had in my collections. Anders Bodelsen was a Danish writer and since I usually tend to read British writers, I’m putting this Think of a Number on my TBR.

If you want to share your covers, go to Kate Jackson’s blog to know the themes for each Monday here. Share them on your blog or social media of your choice and don’t forget to put the hashtag #MurderEveryMonday.

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Policiais do Denarc são presos sob suspeita de receber propina do PCC para interromper investigação

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#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover

There aren’t many farm animals in the covers of Vampiro collection. Many cats and dogs, some horses (that seem more like racing horses), a parrot, some mouses with some fiendish looks (they must be city rats), but these two seem to be the covers with animals more related to farms.

I never read anything by Frank Gruber, I think. He seems to have written many novels, but also wrote for television.

The books in the picture are The Limping Goose and The Gamecock Murders (also published as The Scarlet Feather). Both titles seem to have as detective Johnny Fletcher, that according to Wikipedia, is “a con-man and reluctant amateur detective” and was adapted as a comedy radio series. Internet Archive has at least one episode, if you want to give it a try.

The hashtag #MurderEveryMonday was created by Kate Jackson from the blog Cross Examining Crime. You can check next themes at her blog.

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#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.

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