An Autobiography As much as I love biographies, I’m often hesitant about autobiographies. Everyone has an interesting story — that doesn’t meant they know how to tell it. There is no doubt Dame Agatha Christie knew how to tell a story. Hundreds of them. But her best may be her own. She begins at the…
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CARDS ON THE TABLE by Agatha Christie
Unperturbed, Poirot gave her a card. “Give that to your mistress. I think she will see me.” It was one of his more ostentatious cards. The words “Private Detective” were printed in one corner. He had had them specially engraved for the purpose of obtaining interviews with the so-called fair sex. Nearly every woman, whether…
BOOK PHOTO: THE LANTERN by Deborah Lawrenson
From The Lantern: “At a stone hut, which must once have been a shepherd’s borie, I was directed to a field about a kilometer away. I arrived to find a field of hunched backs, the blue rows reverting to dusty green behind the women curled over like commas, cloth bags slung across their bodies.” ……
REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick DeWitt
Long live the Western. Author Patrick DeWitt brings fresh verve to a classic genre in his new novel. It is told from the first-person perspective of Eli Sisters, one half of a hired gun team. They’ve set out to find and kill Hermann Kermit Warm (ironically, the name of a famed art director in early…