-
Recent Posts
== Currently off the shelf ==
Categories
Archives
Top Posts & Pages
- Top 20 Amnesia Mystery Movies
- John Dickson Carr top 10 poll
- THE TAMARIND SEED (1971) by Evelyn Anthony
- The Perry Mason movies (1934-37)
- Top 20: Private Eye movies
- Tequila Sunrise (1988) - Tuesday's Forgotten Film
- 9 of the Best by Ellery Queen
- Ten Little Indians (1965) - Tuesday's Overlooked Film
- Maniac (1963) - Tuesday's Forgotten Film
- Top 100 Mysteries
Blogroll
- Aficionado
- At the Scene of the Crime
- Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased
- Beneath the Stains of Time (aka Detection by Moonlight)
- Bitter Tea and Mystery
- Book Dirt
- Chess, Comics, Crosswords, Books, Music, Cinema
- Classic Mysteries
- Clothes in Books
- Confessions of a Mystery Novelist….
- Death Can Read
- Do You Write Under Your Own Name
- Existential Ennui
- Film Dirt
- Films on the Box
- Howdunit
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
- In so many words …
- Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
- La morte sa leggere
- Mike Ripley's getting away with murder
- Mrs. Peabody Investigates
- My Reader's Block
- Mystery File
- Noir of the Week
- Noirish
- Novels by Candlelight
- Past Offences
- pattinase
- Paul D Brazill
- Pretty Sinister Books
- Riding the High Country
- Sheldon Times – Sheldon Hall on Films and TV
- Sweet Freedom
- The Dark Time
- The Invisible Event
- The Locked Room
- The Passing Tramp
- The Rap Sheet
- The Stalking Moon
- Tip the Wink
- Vanished Into Thin Air
- West 1 Girl
Category Archives: Somerset Maugham
CAKES AND ALE (1930) by W. Somerset Maugham
Late in life, Somerset Maugham claimed that this was the favourite among his novels and it is easy to see why, with its wit and provocative themes handled with consummate skill. It is certainly among his most autobiographical, resurrecting the … Continue reading
Posted in Five Star review, Kent, London, Somerset Maugham
42 Comments
THE LETTER (1927) by Somerset Maugham
At night on a Malaya rubber plantation a gunshot rings out. A man stumbles out of a bungalow, pursued by a woman, who empties all the chambers of her revolver into him. The moonlight reveals a distraught, gun-toting Bette Davis … Continue reading