A Caribbean Mystery and Dumb Witness, both by Agatha Christie, are on sale in the US today

Two Agatha Christie titles have dropped in price in the US today, June 7, 2021. A Caribbean Mystery, ninth in the Miss Marple series, $1.99Buy at Kindle US | Kobo USAs the webpage blurb mentions, A Caribbean Mystery introduces Mr. Rafiel, who will be central in the plot of Christie’s later book, Nemesis, which is

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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara is on sale in the US today

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara won, per SYKM, the 2021 Edgar Award for Best Mystery. This appears to be Anappara’s first mystery, but it didn’t just win “Best First Mystery”, but straight-out “Best Mystery”. I haven’t read this yet, but now I’m going to get to (!!!), because it has dropped

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Review of Unravelled Knots by Baroness Orczy – Coming Soon

A fun collection of early mystery short stories… Besides being a genuine Hungarian baroness (!), Baroness Orczy is probably best known as the author of the Scarlet Pimpernel books and stories, the first of which was a hit on the London stage, and several of which were made into movies.   (And which I loved as

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Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia by Riaz Dean is on sale today at Kindle US

As I’ve mentioned before a time or two, I’m a huge fan of the Great Game period of history, and now here is Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia, by Riaz Dean, on sale at Kindle US for $2.99, as part of today’s Daily Deal. I’m not sure how well

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Heretics by Leonardo Padura is on sale in the US and the UK and Havana Red is on sale in the US

The first few titles in Leonardo Padura’s Mario Conde series used to go on sale fairly often. I haven’t noticed them on sale as much recently, but now here is the eighth book in the series, Heretics, on sale in both the US ($1.99) and the UK (£1.99), and it’s discountable at Kobo. Note that

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Rehearsing For Death, apa Peckover Joins the Choir, by Michael Kenyon is free right now in the US and UK

Rehearsing For Death, which seems to be a re-titling of Peckover Joins the Choir, is the seventh in the Inspector Peckover series by Michael Kenyon. It’s bad enough when there are different editions of the same book, so it doesn’t necessarily show up that you’ve bought it before. It’s even worse when they change the

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