The blog for book reviews to accompany my history blog which also contains book reviews that deal with history.
Showing posts with label murder mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder mystery. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Mystery In The Adonis Valley
The setting for this mystery novel is mysterious in its own right. The Adonis Valley is near to Beirut in the Lebanon and had a collection of crumbling palaces and buildings at the time of the writing of the novel. The Middle East as it is described is not recognizable anymore to us today. It's like a romantic fairy tale, but then it was real. What we have now is decades of proxy wars between the superpowers destroying small countries.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Murder Mystery in Kenya
1941, Josslyn Hay, Earl of Errol, was shot dead in Kenya. The death of the debauched jet-setter at the heart of Kenya’s Happy Valley set gave the tabloids a heyday and headlines to spare. Rumors were ripe, contradictory, and mostly completely false. The murderer was never apprehended. A new book tries to pin down a new suspect.
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