Reading Old Mystery Novels in Time of COVID

  Like usual, these are novels i've read before. Most recently, it's been several about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, as well as some of Sayers' other short stories.*

  This go-around, i've been more than usually impressed by the signs of the times, especially regarding: 

Midweek Photo:Some of Grandad's Art

 

On the left, an image of his wife, from 1920s or 1930s?; gateway to Lincoln Castle, when he was stationed there, WWI

How is a pencil made?

  Artists and vendors are making lots of videos for us, instructional and behind the scenes.
i was sent

Words on Wednesday: Binge Reading His Lordship

Current Reading

  A few weeks ago, i included, two in one book club edition Wimsey novels.  And about that time,

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Seeing the New Year in, "in" London

Words on Wednesday: Recent Reading

Detective Fiction and Biblical Novels, with Some Surprises!

 

How likely is this? Passport Description in Novels

Some of my recent reading:

• Sayers' Clouds of Witness
• Christie's There is a Tide, aka Taken at the Flood
• Christie's The Secret of Chimneys
• Christie's So Many Steps to Death, aka Destination Unknown

 Maybe i'm making too much of this, but

Words on Wednesday: Agatha Christie's _There is a Tide_

This is a definitely historical story......

Words on Wednesday: Agatha's Managing Women: A Favorite Character Type/Trope

  Some of my favorite Agatha Christie characters are her women.

Words on Wednesday: Christie on Evil

  These two Agatha Christie novels delve into the topic of evil

Subtle Agatha and her Subtext

  One of the joys of rereading old novels is all the things you missed before in your eagerness to get the story.  i think i mentioned the one about the fellow whom they thought had defected from England to Moscow, hoping he hadn't, in the British idiom, "gone West."
  Lately i reread one of my all-time favorites, "Cat Among the Pigeons."  The novel is somewhat more than 300 pages long.  In those pages, three women are referred to in terms marking them as unusual.  Essentially, these women are unusual because they do not give way to their emotions in extreme situations.

Words on Wednesday: Recent Reading

Most of my reading lately has been the works of my favorite mystery writer.  And surprisingly there were several stories that felt new -- and i think at least one really was a previously unread!

Words on Wednesday: An Unexpected Pair of Books, and an Old Friend Revisited

Actually i'd read two of these previously. . . .

Wordless Wednesday; Memories + Words, Few/No Photos

Here i copied from my journal and added my ticket (each of us needed one to enter), placing the ticket in a pocket cut into page & protector.

  Before leaving on my college Europe tour (1976),

As the Olympics draw to a close (not an Olympics post)

2012

  We haven't really been following the Olympics here - shocking, i know - but we have caught the opening sequence a couple of times.
  Anyway, i've noticed the Olympics opening sequence includes a bright sunny shot of the White Cliffs of Dover.  i've also seen sunny shots of them in some movies lately, and that looks strange to me.

  i think Boom has watched them a bit more.  We saw some diving together.

1976

  Last night he asked if my long-ago trip to Europe included England.  We were there for 5 days of the six weeks.
  Anyway, never reluctant to pull out a scrapbook, i got Volume 3 of The Europe Collection.  About half of it covers the England time, though photos are sparse (film was running low!) and memorabilia & handwriting are much more plentiful.
  Anyway, the White Cliffs of Dover.
  No wonder the sunny views look strange to me.
  Notice that my view of them is more iconically foggy.



photo taken 8/7/76, on boat crossing from Calais to Dover, with Kodak Instamatic camera.  Papers by Club Scrap; quote card by unknown.