February Books

Raisins and Almonds, Kerry Greenwood. OK, but Phryne Fisher is not for me.
Purbeck Adventure, Eileen Meyler. First book about the Elwood family.
Requiem for a Mezzo, Carola Dunn. My third Daisy Dalrymple book running and I liked it even more than the first two. Set in the world of opera this time when a singer drops dead on stage, with Daisy and Alec conveniently in the audience. The Daisy/Alec affair progresses very nicely.
Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott, re-read
Footsteps in the Dark , Georgette Heyer
The Unfinished Clue, Georgette Heyer
Why Shoot a Butler?, Georgette Heyer
Death in the Stocks, Georgette Heyer
More Work for the Undertaker , Margery Allingham, re-read
I then tried another Heyer but there’s no comparison.
Adventure at Dale House, Eileen Meyler
Behold, Here’s Poison, Georgette Heyer. I perhaps liked this best of all the ones I’ve read so far. I do wonder though why Miss Heyer invented Inspector Hannasyde when so often the mystery is solved by one of the other characters?
Adrian Mole, The Prostrate Years, Sue Townsend. The usual brilliant zeitgeist-y social comment, whether it’s Adrian unable to make a an appointment with his GP or the council menacing his parents for not putting out and removing rubbish bins at exactly the right time. A lot of the charm of the books comes from the atmosphere of extended family and the way figures from the past like Brain Box Henderson still turn up in Adrian’s life. Not a bundle of laughs, though; I found it very hard to read about Adrian’s cancer diagnosis and treatment.
They Found Him Dead, Georgette Heyer
A Peep Behind the Scenes , Mrs O F Walton
Poppy’s Presents, Mrs O F Walton
Back to Me , Marcus Trescothick with Peter Hayter
( Blakes & Blacketts books by Grace James )