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Mr Finchley Discovers His England by Victor Canning

Mr Finchley Discovers His England by Victor Canning #ClassicRe-Release @farragobooks #Travelogue

Victor Canning’s books are experiencing a revival, and I have the first of a three part series based on a 45 year old solicitor’s assistant, Edgar Finchley and his first ever ‘holiday’ after years of working. Recently re-released by Farrago Books, please read on for

Mr. Finchley Discovers His England

Set in 1934, Edgar Finchley is a proper and rather single-minded man, at 45 he’s been the chief…

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Charity Ends at Home: Flaxborough Chronicles #5 by Colin Watson

Charity Ends at Home: Flaxborough Chronicles #5 by Colin Watson #ClassicReRelease @FarragoBooks #Flaxborough

The fifth in Colin Watson’s Flaxborough Chronicles series is on the blog today – a re-release of the original published in 1968, this brings another murder and mystery to the little English village. Please read on for my review of

Charity Ends at Home

An anonymous letter in which the writer is in fear for their life arrives on the desk of Constable Chubb, but our intrepid Purbright is inclined to…

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Lonelyheart 4122: Flaxborough Chronicles #4 by Colin Watson

Lonelyheart 4122: Flaxborough Chronicles #4 by Colin Watson #ClassicReRelease @FarragoBooks #Flaxborough

Another in the Flaxborough Chronicles series from Colin Watson, now available in re-release. Please read on for my review of

Lonelyheart 4122

You won’t get much more ‘British’ in the feel of these books, and this one makes a place for itself in a seemingly straight-line path to the suspect. Originally published in 1967, there is a very definite sense of the time in some outmoded beliefs and…

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Hopjoy Was Here: Flaxborough Chronicles #3 by Colin Watson

Hopjoy Was Here: Flaxborough Chronicles #3 by Colin Watson #ClassicReRelease @FarragoBooks #Flaxborough

Originally published in 1962, this rerelease of the third in the Flaxborough Chronicles from Colin Watson is on the blog today – another classic British mystery featuring DI Purbright on yet another case, this one a clever mix of humor and misdirection in

Hopjoy Was Here

Brian Hopjoy and his roommate disappear from their rented lodgings at 14 Beatrice Avenue, and again it is up to DI Purbright…

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