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Robin Agnew

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Love golden age, traditional & historical mysteries. Reviewer, reader. History mystery column in Deadly Pleasures. Love figure skating. Visit me at auntagathas.com

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Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 12h

Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1919. This series (Gaston Max) had a shorter run than Rohmer's Fu Manchu books.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 19h

"She often wondered why there weren't more physicist-detectives in mystery novels. After all, she'd always found Albert Einstein and Hercule Poirot to be astonishingly similar. Hadn't both mustached men retreated to the laboratories in their own minds?" -- THE STARS TURNED INSIDE OUT, Nova Jacobs

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 1d

While little read (or even remembered) today, Knight was a prolific writer of detective fiction, with a writing career that lasted from the 30's to the early 60's. This is a kick ass cover.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 1d

"She was not a dog person. She was not a cat person, fish person, or horse person. On bad days, she was barely a people person. She ate meat, wore leather, and secretly coveted her mother's old mink." -- CHARM CITY, Laura Lippman

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 2d

Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1947.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 3d

Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1945. "Latch" is the US title; "Door" is the UK title.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 3d

"An elderly housekeeper, an aging academic. Who's next? The ghost of Agatha Christie?"
"Why not, if she can help? This case has roots in the past." -- THE ART OF BETRAYAL, Connie Berry

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 4d

Popular Library, 1964

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 4d

'Denial isn't a comfortable state in which to live. The taxes are high." -- SAME DIFFERENCE, E.J.Copperman

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Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Birthday Helen MacInnes, 1907, Glasgow. The beloved spy novelist, accompanying her husband, an MI6 agent, through 1930's Europe, was horrified by Hitler, and her husband later encouraged her to begin to write using her experiences. Reader, she did! She wrote over 20 novels.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 5d

auntagathas.com/aa/charles-t... A new Rutledge novella from Charles Todd, out next week! Will whet your appetite for his full length novel due in July. Review by Cathy Akers-Jordan.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 6d

Boardman Bloodhound Mystery, 1951 (UK). Cover art by Denis McLoughlin.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 6d

It's banned book week...incredibly, these titles have all been banned in different places and for different reasons. My suggestion: read one.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 7d

Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1955. Poirot no. 30.

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Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 7d

“Maybe a stranger who listens is the best audience. People close to you are judgmental.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 8d

Three wildly different covers for this 1930 title by Carr.

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 8d

“Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 9d

Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1968. Scary book!!

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 9d

“Home should be like a soft cushion to fall upon at the end of a hard day.”
― Carlene O'Connor, Murder at an Irish Wedding

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 10d

Grosset & Dunlap, 1959. Cherry offers advice on how to make a first aid kit and how to treat minor injuries at home! Great advice for babysitters (according to the publisher).

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 10d

auntagathas.com/aa/beth-lewi... Wonderfully epic look at the women of the Klondike, circa 1898. Out next week!

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 10d

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 11d

Cover contrast dept. Original pub date 1941. Originally published as "Alphabet Hicks" the title was later changed to the now more familiar "The Sound of Murder."

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 11d

WELCOME OCTOBER: "Another fall, another turned page..." -- Wallace Stegner

Robin Agnew @robinagnew.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Birthday J.I.M. Stewart, better known to lovers of crime fiction's golden age as Michael Innes, 1906, Edinburgh. An Oxford professor, between 1936-1986, he also wrote crime fiction, featuring his creation Sir John Appleby. The books are witty and often offer a lesson in vocabulary.