bookshelf

Grasshopper by Barbara Vine

15 tapes / 21 hours, Narrated by  Jenny Sterlin
Recorded Books, (c) 2000, Read: 04/09/09, Blog: 04/20/09

This tale of suspense concerns an international assortment of young people crashing in a top floor apartment and their adventures-some criminal, some not-on the roofs of London.

Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin

An Inspector Rebus Mystery Narrated by Samuel Gillies
7 tapes, 9 hours
(c)1992 Ian Rankin, 2001 W.E. Howes Ltd Read: 03/27/09

Inspector Rebus is called "south of the border" to London (disappointingly, there are no sombreros at all).

Gravewriter by Mark Arsenault

272 pgs (c) 2006, New York: Thomas Dunne Books
Broward Library Read: 12/03/07

A strong middle-of-the-pack mystery that introduces the amateur sleuth Billy Povich. 

Ethiopian Murder Mystery by George S. Schuyler

Serialized novel published 1931
Ethiopian Stories © Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1994,
The Northeastern library of Black literature
Broward Library, Read: 02.02.08, Blog: 03/18//09

Wandering the stack, I found this volume of two serialized novellas by Schuyler, an early twentieth century African-American journalist. This story is a masculine detective story where a newspaperman solves the murder of an Ethiopian in NYC.

The Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill

A Dr. Siri Investigation set in Laos
240 pgs (c) 2008, Soho Press
Broward Library, read 09/05/08

A body, booby-trapped to kill, arrives when the coroner is away.