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Left-Handed Death was first published in 1946. I’ve never read anything by Richard Hull, so am looking forward to it.
Left-Handed Death by Richard Hull Published by Agora Books on October 30, 2019 (first published 1946)
Source: NetGalley
Genres: Vintage Mystery
Pages: 210
Format: eBook
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Shergold Engineering Company has come into a bit of financial trouble. And it seems the Ministry-sent Barry Foster might just have something to do with it.
The company directors, Arthur Shergold and Guy Reeves, decide Foster must be stopped, and when Reeves confesses to the murder, it’s surely an open-and-shut case.
But as Detective Hardwick looks closer at the confession, he’s not so sure Reeves is their man.
Filled with comic wit and an ingenious plot, Left-Handed Death is a classic Richard Hull crime not to be missed.
My review of Christmas at the Chateau is scheduled for December 5.
Christmas at the Chateau by Lorraine Wilson Series: A French Escape #2
Published by One More Chapter on December 1, 2019
Genres: Christmas, Fiction
Pages: 49
Format: eARC
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Poppy is looking forward to spending her first Christmas in France at her boyfriend, Leo’s, Château. And as the snow falls softly around the dramatic castle, Poppy can’t think of anything more magical.
There are new traditions to discover, a cosy Christmas market to explore and best of all, a promise of secret treasure hunt from gorgeous Leo. Only family pressure and uncertainty about her future in France can threaten to cast a shadow over the holiday.
When the treasure hunt takes an unexpected turn Poppy knows for sure this is one Christmas she’ll remember forever.
About Lorraine Wilson
Lorraine Wilson writes flirty, feel-good fiction for Harper Impulse – a Harper Collins imprint – and is unashamedly fond of happy endings. She loves hearing from readers and feels incredibly grateful to be doing the job she always dreamt of.
She splits her time between the South of France and Cambridgeshire and is usually either writing or reading while being sat on, walked over or barked at by one of her growing band of rescue dogs.
About Richard Hull
Richard Henry Sampson FCA (6 September 1896 – 19th April 1973), known by the pseudonym Richard Hull, was a British writer who became successful as a crime novelist with his first book in 1934.
He entered the British Army at the age of eighteen with the outbreak of the First World War and served as an officer in an infantry battalion and in the Machine Gun Corps. At the end of the war after three years in France he worked for a firm of chartered accountants in the early 1920s and then later set up his own practice. He moved into full-time writing in 1934 after the success of The Murder of My Aunt. In the Second World War, he was recalled to the army and became an auditor with the Admiralty in London, a position he retained until his retirement in the 1950s. While he ceased to write detective fiction after 1953, he did continue to take a close interest in the affairs of the Detection Club, assisting Agatha Christie with her duties as President. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
Christmas at the Chateau sounds perfect for the season! I love to read Christmas themed books at this time of the year. Happy reading!
I love holiday reads too.
Christmas at the Chateau will be perfect for the holiday reading challenge.
I think so. I do love Christmas novellas.
ENJOY both of your books.
Have a great reading week.
Thanks for stopping by.
Both look interesting
I think I’ll enjoy them.
Oh – both of these are tempting. I would like to try one of those Vintage Mysteries someday.
Happy Reading!
I tend to read a lot of vintage mysteries.
E not your reads. Christmas at the Chateau sounds particularly interesting.
I think it sounds fun. I don’t read romances that often, but tend to enjoy Christmas novellas.