REVIEW: THE ACCURSED by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is often heralded as the Queen of American Gothic, at least of modern days…
REVIEW: THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI by Helene Wecker
In the turn-of-the-century New York City, a Syrian tinsmith names Arbeely is repairing a copper…
REVIEW: THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT by Caroline Preston
I adore this book. It’s a completely individual way to tell a story. It’s a novel masquerading as a scrapbook — or perhaps it’s the other way around. Author Caroline…
Win an Agatha Christie prize pack: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-and-giveaway-agatha-christie.html
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 conscious of innocence or not, was anxious to have a look at a private detective and find out what he wanted.
Left ignominiously on the mat, Poirot studied the doorknocker with intense disgust at its unpolished condition.
“Ah! for Brasso and a rag,” he murmured to himself.
CARDS ON THE TABLE by Agatha Christie
SISTERS BROTHERS on longlist for a Booker Prize. My review here.
With fabulous cover art by Dan Stiles.
New book photo for THE LANTERN by Deborah Lawrenson. More here: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-photo-lantern-by-deborah-lawrenson.html
My review of HOW SHAKESPEARE CHANGED EVERYTHING by Stephen Marche is now live. Available tomorrow from HarperCollins.
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