Patrick von Stutenzee's Book Blog

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 o...

Corfu has always been the pet theory for Shakespeare aficionados as the setting for the Tempest. There is very little to go by to come up wi...

Two brothers, one young, the other very young, get stranded on Crete after a meeting with the wrong kind of Cretans. Their boating companion...

As with all of Mary Stewart's mystery novels, the setting is as important as the protagonists. The story she spins this time is perfectl...

For once, this mystery book by Mary Stewart doesn't act as a travel guide extraordinaire at the same time. The story is too contained wi...