Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality, all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, whether physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, eBooks, and audiobooks.

Purchased eBooks

Meet Inspector Shanti de Silva, the new chief of police in Nuala, a sleepy town in the beautiful tea country of colonial Ceylon. He moved from the big city in search of a quiet life, but now that he’s faced with the suspicious death of an arrogant plantation owner, it looks like Nuala won’t be as peaceful as he’d hoped. He’s going to need all his experience to unravel the mystery and prove his worth to his new British boss.
A vintage-style mystery set in the 1930s, spiced with colourful characters and a dash of humour.

“I can imagine sitting out on the veranda sipping iced tea in the sweltering heat but with a constant reminder of the wilder side of Ceylon just over the other side of the high garden fence. Just stunning!” Books from Dusk till Dawn

“Clever plotting, sharply defined characters and luscious description make this a hugely enjoyable read. I look forward to volume 2”. Ros Carne Author of The Pupil and The Stepmother

Amazon

Series: The Inspector de Silva Mysteries.

Publisher: Stane Street Press.

Publication Date: August 10, 2016.

Print Length: 202 pages.

Tricked into delivering a fatal dose of poison to his wealthy aunt, Malcolm Warren, a conservative stockbroker, must solve the mystery of her murder before he becomes the prime suspect…

Amazon

Series: None.

Publisher: eBookit.com

Publication Date: January 27, 2021. Initially published in 1929.

Print length: 159 pages.

Purchased Print Books

A bride is brutally killed in her June wedding. Her town of Bascombe Fells on the verge of being tear apart… Several suspects, and the great detective Alan Ford trying to make sense of a senseless act…

Amazon

Series: Alan Ford.

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing.

Publishing Date: March 15, 2018. Initially published January 1, 1916.

Paperback length: 173 pages.

The lights go out in the studio of wealthy artist Eric Stannard. When they come on a moment later, the artist is dead, his heart pierced by an etching needle. But who is the murderer? The artist’s wife, jealous of her husband’s young model? The model, who felt pressured by the unwanted attentions of the artist? The artist’s son, who was in love with the model? Or the neighbor, who was in love with the artist’s wife? An impossible crime for which Alan Ford must find a solution in Faulkner’s Folly a classic Carolyn Wells mystery.

Amazon

Series: Alan Ford.

Publisher: Independently published.

Publication Date: February 25, 2020. Initially published in 1917.

Paperback length: 146 pages.

Since I’ve heard such good things about her works, I am excited to sink my teeth into the two Carolyn Wells books. I am going to quite a few weddings this summer, but hopefully they won’t take any cues from The Bride of a Moment. What have you added to your shelves this week?