That Was The Year That Was: 2022

Well, ave atque vale, 2022; helloooo, 2023.

The Invisible Host (Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning)

As everyone knows by now, this anticipates Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

Murder of a Chemist (Miles Burton)

The Clue of the Punctured Penguin.

Shake Hands for Ever (Ruth Rendell)

Wexford knows Robert Hathall killed his wife - but he can't prove it.

James Tarrant, Adventurer (Freeman Wills Crofts)

Poison and patent medicines for Inspector French.

Through the Wall (Cleveland Moffett)

Les mystères de Paris, Belle Époque vintage.

The Pin Men (Roger East)

Fraud and murder in a prehistoric cave.

Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs (Robert Player)

“It is not every man whose father was both a pope and a murderer."

Puzzle for Pilgrims (Patrick Quentin)

Sex and murder in Mexico.

Arsenic in Richmond / Mr. Pinkerton Goes to Scotland Yard (David Frome)

A very workmanlike poisoning case.