Once upon a time, when I worked as a bookseller, the founder of our shop wrote a list of the five best mysteries (in his estimation) of all time. Rex Stout’s Fer de Lance, of course, topped the list. (Bill was a huge Nero & Archie fan — as those of you who knew him well remember.) However, at that point, I hadn’t started My 52 weeks With Christie blog nor begun reading my way through the classics…

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Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley

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pen name of Anthony Berkeley

1928 Doubleday Doran hardcover

“First Edition. Extremely scarce Hubin listed mystery by this author best known for his works written under the name Anthony Berkeley, which include, The Poisoned Chocolates Case and Malice Aforethought.”

Historically, I always like to feature some classic crime on the Ramblings for the first day of our Club Reading Weeks – and more often than not, it turns out to be Agatha Christie! The 1920s were certainly a Golden Age for crime fiction, but 1925’s Christie title was “The Secret of Chimneys” and somehow I wasn’t feeling it. I contemplated a non-crime book and started it, but I’m afraid it turned…

It’s been a little while since I read any of my beloved Golden Age crime books, so when I got the itch recently I couldn’t resist. Luckily, I have a little stack of unread titles which publishers have been kind enough to send me, and today I want to share a couple of titles which are a little different from the usual fare, and which both made fascinating and engrossing reading! Not To Be Taken:…