Dolly and the Singing Bird by Dorothy Dunnett

Dolly and the Singing Bird by Dorothy Dunnett

Dorothy Halliday Dunnett (1923-2001) was a Scottish author and portrait painter, known to readers mostly for her historical sagas about a 16th century Scottish lord and a 15th century European financier. A website about her run by a former chair of the Dorothy Dunnett...
The Knavish Crows by Sara Woods

The Knavish Crows by Sara Woods

The Knavish Crows (Collins, 1971) by Sara Woods may be the only Antony Maitland title I have not managed to read and collect over a long period of acquiring worn ex-library and tattered paperback copies of the series. It seems not to have been published in the United...
Death of a Darling by E. X. Giroux

Death of a Darling by E. X. Giroux

I have been looking into mysteries that I missed one way or another when they were new. One series that sailed past me when it was published in the 1980s features London barrister Robert Forsythe and his highly competent secretary Abigail Sanderson in 10 traditional...