The Review Curmudgeon

By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie My rating: 5 of 5 stars By the time Christie wrote this,...

The Man with the Club Foot by Valentine Williams My rating: 2 of 5 stars There's "plot relies o...

Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a bit of fun, and not to be taken t...

Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham My rating: 5 of 5 stars Margery Allingham knew how to write a gripping...

Small Magics for the Traveling Wizard by S.A. McKenzie My rating: 4 of 5 stars I did something unusual f...

N or M? by Agatha Christie My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was thinking for a while that this was unaccountabl...

The Big Town by Ring Lardner My rating: 4 of 5 stars A comedy of errors, told in the voice (and dialect)...