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What score, out of 10, would you give 'The Monogram Murders' by Sophie Hannah?

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forgottengenres

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci (via thatlitsite)

forgottengenres

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Clive Barker (via thatlitsite)

Join us on Facebook and Twitter on November 1st where we'll be discussing 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' by Agatha Christie as part of the After Dark Book Club!

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forgottengenres

There’s a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called ‘fan fiction’.

Joss Whedon (via thatlitsite)

forgottengenres

For as long as I can remember I’ve always had a fascination with horror. Perhaps it began with a particularly jarring moment when I was five years old, when my mother, searching for something to watch, settled upon a made-for-TV movie that happened to be airing on the Lifetime network. I ...

thepoisonedmartini

It’s interesting to witness the progression of this cover. It shares the same background color as a previously posted edition, but here the cover image has changed.

The old woman is more prominently visible. Creepily, one side of her face reveals the fractured skull. And a golf club—the possible murder weapon—is in the foreground.

This image would continued to be used in subsequent editions, but the background cover is changed.

This is the 26th printing of the Pocket Books paperback, first issued in January 1947. The previously posted 23rd printing was put out in December 1976, so this edition would likely have appeared a couple years later.

Signed copy of 'The Monogram Murders' by Sophie Hannah - looking forward to reading this one.

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thepoisonedmartini

A captain’s hat, darts, a glass of wine, the Queen of Hearts, a gun and a mirror with a bullet hole allude to the nine short stories within this fine collection. Such an array of objects works perfectly for such short story collections.

This cover appears on the second printing of the New Dell Edition paperback released in September 1976. The first New Dell edition appeared in June 1976. The stories in this collection date to 1939 and earlier.