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Found the black bird at the Sacramento Airport!

#maltesefalcon #hammett #crimefiction #noir #photography

Mosaic of a falcon perched on a post on the floor of the Sacramento Airport.

#MurderEveryMonday “the man” or “the woman” in the title

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday theme is “the men” or “the woman” in the title. I went through the Portuguese collection Vampiro to find all the titles. We have more men than women. I’m considering the titles in Portuguese, and when different I will write the original title. Also all the titles in Portuguese have “the man” (o homem) or “the woman” (a mulher) as you can see from the photos, but when translating the Portuguese titles into English we must change the order of the words, so it makes sense.

The powerful man – Michael Spillane (original title: The Deep)
The man in the bed number 10 – Mary R. Rinehart (original title: The man in lower 10) – read it and liked it
The sinister man – Edgar Wallace – read and liked it
Maigret and the man from the bench – Georges Simenon (Maigret et L’Homme du banc) – favourite cover by the artist Lima de Freitas, not sure if I read this one, but usually like Simenon and recommend
The shadow man – Dashiell Hammett (original title: The thin man)
Maigret and the man with two women – Georges Simenon (original title: Liberty Bar)
Maigret and the solitary men – Georges Simenon (original title: Maigret et L’Homme tout seul)

The man in the brown suit and The man in lower 10 were the first titles I remember could do for today’s hashtag. This book by Agatha Christie is not her usually murder mystery, but it is more on the side of adventure novels and I also like she borrowed from her trip with the British Empire Expedition.

There is less “the woman” in the collection.

Maigret and the vanished woman – Georges Simenon (original title: Chez les flamands)
The quiet woman – Harry Carmichael (I have read this author as Hartley Howard and liked it, I’m curious about this one. Real name: Leopold Ognall)
The phantom woman – William Irish (original title: The phantom lady. Read this one a long time ago and liked it)
The woman that was not missed – Dorothy Simpson (original title: Dead and gone. Can’t remember if I ever read Simpson, although the name rings a bell).

Back to your covers. If you want to participate in #MurderEveryMonday check Kate’s post here.

#AgathaChristie #BookLook #books #classicCrime #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #GeorgesSimenon #MurderEveryMonday #readings

The seven books listed next to a plant vase and a green candle over a wooden table.

The Agatha Christie books in a facsimile edition and a Portuguese edition in the same table.

The four books listed in the post next to a plant vase.

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Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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I am enjoying Maigret (ABC), and realise the similarities with Wallender. But of course the original Maigret came well before Wallender. The detective with.a social conscience is a powerful meme. I cannot recall any fictional Australian detectives similar. The closest is perhaps some of Peter Corris #fiction #crimefiction #abctv

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Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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Huge thanks to @wordhorde.emporium for stocking our #crimefiction anthology #DeathComesatChristmas - much appreciated!

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Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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📚 The El by: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. But Teddy has thrived in the Simon City Royals, and today, he'll be helping to lead a posse of the group's younger members south across the city...

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An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. But Teddy has thrived in the Simon City Royals, and today, he'll be helping to lead a posse of the group's younger members south across the city to Roosevelt High School to attend a gathering of gangs forming “the Nation”—a bold new attempt at joining forces across racial lines. This holds particular importance for Teddy, as his branch’s only Indigenous member.

But when the meeting breaks up in gunshots and police sirens, Teddy must guide the Royals back across hostile territory, along secret routes and back alleys, and stop by stop on the thundering tracks of the El. In the face of violence from rival gangs and a secret Judas in the Royals’ ranks, Teddy is armed only with a potent combination of book smarts and street smarts, and by the guiding spirit of Coyote, who has granted him the power to glimpse a future only he may survive to see.

Immersed in the sights, sounds, and smells of the author’s beloved city, The El will transport you to that singular sun- and blood-soaked day in Chicago. It is a love letter to another time, to a city, and to a group of friends trying to find their place and make their way in a world that doesn’t want them.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHIRBY AWARD IN FICTION - From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical nov

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Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKGJPT58?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#COLDJUSTICE #BookRecommendations #BuckTaylorMystery #ReadingList #Thriller #CrimeFiction #MysteryNovel #DarkSecrets #Suspense #MustRead

COLD JUSTICE, A BUCK TAYLOR MYSTERY
Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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COLD JUSTICE, A BUCK TAYLOR MYSTERY
Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKGJPT58?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Non-fiction November: choosing non-fiction

I just found out about #NonFictionNovember through Liz Dexter from Libro Full Time, hosted by Frances Spurrier at Volatile Rune. Each week has a theme to encourage you to read more non-fiction and this one is “choosing non-fiction”.

I realised that when I choose non-fiction to read (that is not for work), I usually tied it up to my fiction favourite readings. The picture above is a good example of this:

Books about books, libraries, booksellers, and the history of the book and reading;
Books about specific books or characters. Besides Aldridge’s Marple and Poirot, I could add Osborne’s The Life and Times of Agatha Christie, Poirot and Marple biographies of Anne Hart, companions, etc.;
Books about genres or subgenres, either as history or as a collection of essays. To Murder for Pleasure and The Golden Age of Murder, I could add HowDunnit, essays by The Detection Club members, Bloody Murder by Julian Symons, The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards, and others;
Autobiographies and biographies, to which I could add other authors like Austen, the Brontes, and Trollope;
More recently, I’ve been adding nature writing books to my TBR, of which The Wild Isles is a good example (it’s an anthology), but I could also add Angela Harding’s A Year Unfolding or A Nature Diary by Richard Adams.

This November, I’m reading Murder Will Out by T. J. Binyon. The book goes through several detectives, dividing its chapters through the different types of detectives: the professional amateur, the amateur amateur, the police, etc.. Binyon describes the differences between these characters when they belong to the same category and talks about the books and their creators so one can get an historical perspective or even see the evolution of the detective.

Now, back to you, do you read non-fiction by choice? And do you choose it?

#books #BooksAboutBooks #ClassicMystery #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #livros #NatureWriting #NonFictionNovember #NonFictionNovember #readings

Several of the books mentioned over a wooden desk with a red notebook and a closed laptop full of stickers

A book over a writing desk, left between an old lamp a mug, a vase and a picture frame.

COLD JUSTICE, A BUCK TAYLOR MYSTERY
Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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Spotlight Review: HER ONE REGRET by Donna Freitas, this emotionally charged feminist thriller holds up a mirror reflecting the impossible expectations placed on women @donnafreitas.writer @soho_crime @soho_press #feministthriller #bookdiscussion #bookstagram #booksky #mustread #crimefiction

http://stacyalesi.com/2025/11/04/spotlight-review-her-one-regret-by-donna-freitas/

COLD JUSTICE, A BUCK TAYLOR MYSTERY
Unlock the mystery behind a snowy resort where dark secrets lurk beneath serene surfaces. This thriller is packed with conspiracies and unexpected twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. /#thriller /#mustread /#pageTurner
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