New Book - Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (Pages 1 - 21)

 

First Published: September 8, 2022

This is a biography of Agatha Christie. The book starts by explaining that Agatha Christie was raised in Torquay, Devon, and the house where she grew up and was so vital in her life was called Ashfield. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses. 

Detectives Victorianas - La segunda bala (The Second Bullet) by Anna Katharine Green

 

First Published: 1915

RATING: GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que tenía nueve vidas (The Man With Nine Lives) by Hugh C Weir - Facts

 

The author of this story is Hugh C Weir. Hugh C. Weir was born on May 1, 1884 in Vergennes, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Under Suspicion (1918), Graft (1915) and What Shall We Do with Him? (1919). He died on March 16, 1934 in New York City.

Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que tenía nueve vidas (The Man With Nine Lives) by Hugh C Weir

 

First Published: 1914

RATING: GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que me cortó el pelo (The Man Who Cut Off My Hair) by Richard Marsh - Facts

 

The author of the story is Richard Marsh. Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle,which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of fiction and numerous short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humour. 

Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que me cortó el pelo (The Man Who Cut Off My Hair) by Richard Marsh

 

First Published: 1911

RATING. GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - Las muescas del bastón (How He Cut His Stick) by M McDonnell Bodkin - Facts

 

The author of this story is M McDonnell Bodkin. Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (8 October 1850 – 7 June 1933) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland  a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, barrister (King's Counsel (K.C.)), and County Court Judge for County Clare, 1907–24. Bodkin earned a place in the history of the detective novel by virtue of his invention of the first detective family. His character Paul Beck, a private detective with comfortable lodgings in Chester, was an Irish Sherlock Holmes with a very original yet logical method for detecting crime.

Detectives Victorianas - Las muescas del bastón (How He Cut His Stick) by M McDonnell Bodkin

 

First Published: 1900

RATING: GOOD

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Detectives Victorianas - La aventura de la anciana quisquillosa (The Adventure of the Cantankerous Woman) by Grant Allen - Facts

 

The author of this story is Grant Allen. Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. 

Detectives Victorianas - La aventura de la anciana quisquillosa (The Adventure of the Cantankerous Woman) by Grant Allen

 

First Published: 1899

RATING: GOOD

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