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I’m a big fan of books and I always choose them well, so I read about a murder in London and shared this book with my friends and then they came across a themed party with the theme murder mystery dinner London I was very surprised because after reading this book it became my favorite and this the company provides the actors with a script and the game lasts for three hours, I think it’s the reader’s dream to make my book come true
I ordered this book after seeing your post. I'm a fan of Chandler, Hammett and Spillane. Does Buchan fit in that genre? Other than Erskine Childers and Conan Doyle I'm not familiar with British mystery authors.
Anyway, I need a traveling book to take on several long flights next month.
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Scots are British. We're Scottish, English, Welsh and northern Irish individually but British collectively. 
I'd say Buchan's style was more the adventure/espionage mystery story than whodunnit detection. Sort of an early Ian Flemming. Very much period fiction now but still a very fine read.
I'd say Buchan's style was more the adventure/espionage mystery story than whodunnit detection. Sort of an early Ian Flemming. Very much period fiction now but still a very fine read.
Thank you, sir. I'm sure I will be an enjoyable read.Scots are British. We're Scottish, English, Welsh and northern Irish individually but British collectively.
I'd say Buchan's style was more the adventure/espionage mystery story than whodunnit detection. Sort of an early Ian Flemming. Very much period fiction now but still a very fine read.
The 39 steps was Buchans first attempt at a 'dime novel' so yes, it would fit in that genre. It's only a short read through, so if you've got several long flights ahead of you then more books will be required. Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, John Lee Carre & Graham Greene are some of the other best regarded British authors with a penchant for a good spy/mystery novel.
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
Vanity Fair - The best stories, articles, humor, photographs, art from America's most memorable magazine, edited by Cleveland Amory and Frederic Bradlee. Incidentally, Mr. Bradlee was the nephew of Frank Crowninshield, the original Editor of Vanity Fair.
I tried and failed to get through the Trilogy. Pages of Peake's brilliance without the plot to sustain them.
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My favourite is The Clock by W F Harvey. A brilliantly skillful piece of story telling that conjours mounting menace in broad daylight out of nothing without any cliched horror story props.
Just finished my last book of the year, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame. It was my first go-round and I've been thinking of Toad ever since. Just a really beautiful story, and very well-written.
The Steam Locomotive in America - It's Development in the Twentieth Century by Alfred W. Bruce. Technical, but fascinating to a rail-buff like me.
A replacement copy of Moby Dick since I utterly destroyed my last one from reading it so much.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night.
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