It’s that time of year again - the time for making lists. These were the vintage crime books I most enjoyed during 2020:
Erle Stanley Gardner’s wonderfully plotted 1936 Perry Mason mystery
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
Charles Forsyte’s 1968 tale of murder in the British Embassy in Ankara
Murder with Minarets. It captures the distinctive feel of diplomatic life extremely well.
Bert and Dolores Hitchens’ splendid railway mystery
End of the Line (and you know how much I love railway mysteries).
James O. Causey’s dark paranoid 1957 noir tale
Killer Take All!John McPartland’s 1953 noir pulper
Big Red's Daughter.
And two from Wade Miller (rapidly becoming my favourite noir writer) -
Kitten with a Whip and
Kiss Her Goodbye, both emotional roller coaster rides into nightmare.
