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#DeanStreetDecember24 Round-up! 🎉
A huge thank you to everyone who joined in! 💖 Special shoutout to @unclerobin.bsky.social for leading with the most reviews - legend! 🏆🙌
Can’t wait to do it all again in 2025! 📚💫
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Thank you again and again, Liz! What a super review to finish this (now) traditional yearly blogging event!🥰🙏 #DeanStreetDecember24

Book review – Elizabeth Fair – “The Mingham Air” #DeanStreetDecember24 I opened up Dean Street December to accept reviews up until the end of this Sunday, 05 January, which has also meant I can fit this review in myself. I finished reading this book at 11.20 pm on New Year's Eve, having (wickedly) included it in my stats (making them ever so neat at 99 fiction / 99 nonfiction) assuming I was going to finish it. This is my eighth review for Dean Street December 2024, so I've completely outdone my own total last year, and bringing the total up to 49 reviews so far!

Book review - Elizabeth Fair - "The Mingham Air" #DeanStreetDecember24

Book review - E. R. Punshon - "There's a Reason for Everything" #DeanStreetDecember24 Dean Street Press, Golden Age Crime fiction, detectives, 1945 novels

"We’re reading books published by Dean Street Press, the indie publisher devoted to finding and republishing good fiction and non-fiction this month."
E R Punshon – “There’s a Reason for Everything"
#bookreview #DeanStreetDecember24
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Book review – E. R. Punshon – “There’s a Reason for Everything” #DeanStreetDecember24 This is my seventh review for Dean Street December 2024, which means I've very much outdone my own total last year, and we're up to a total of over 40 reviews now! This Golden Age Crime novel was offered as a free ebook earlier in the month so I thought I'd give it a go (I do read the odd old crime novel and have done a DSP one before, though not by this author). We're reading books published by Dean Street Press, the indie publisher devoted to finding and republishing good fiction and non-fiction this month.

Book review - E. R. Punshon - "There's a Reason for Everything" #DeanStreetDecember24

Table Two by Marjorie Wilenski Every December for the past few years, fellow blogger Liz Dexter has shone a spotlight on books published by Dean Street Press (DSP), an independent publisher specialising in reissuing golden age c…

"Table Two is a very enjoyable novel, especially for readers interested in the social history of the period"
Table Two by Marjorie Wilenski #bookreview #DeanStreetDecember24 @lyzzybee.bsky.social
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Dean Street December Drei It's December 2024 and Dean Street Press have once again given me something to celebrate. The wonderful Liz Dexter's   hosting a third De...

My #DeanStreetDecember24 is done - many thanks to @lyzzybee.bsky.social for again organising and hosting, and to @deanstpress.bsky.social for the hours of great reading. A link to my 15th and final review, for Harlequin House, can be found here:
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Review by robinwalter - Bloody Instructions Before Dean Street Press announced that they would be publishing the first five of her Antony...

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#NotJustCovers

#MyTopReadsOf2024 @thestorygraph.com

#AmReading #Mystery #ebook #DeanStreetDecember24

ANOTHER new-to-me (and to many) author whose debut was a smash hit (for me)

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Terrific review - many thanks indeed for sharing! #DeanStreetDecember24 @lyzzybee.bsky.social

Kobo Sage ereader with the following text highlighted: She did not stop to enquire why her fiancé had not let her know of his return, it was enough that he was there, at hand, obviously willing and competent to take all responsibility from her shoulders. It was an attitude which Mr. Partridge highly approved: he liked women to be feminine, and it pleased him to discover that Miss Campion’s true character, now revealed, was that of a clinging vine.

Intent is everything: Reading "Harlequin House" for #DeanStreetDecember24 I came across the attached passage. I've read the very same sentiment expressed IN EARNEST, in other #middlebrow books and raged at it. Because I know Ms Sharp definitely did NOT mean it, I laughed at this

Review by robinwalter - Information Received Information Received is the first in E. R. Punshon's  Bobby Owen mystery series. The Dean Str...

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#NotJustCovers

#MyTopReadsOf2024 @thestorygraph.com
#Mystery #ebook

A new-to-me author whose debut was a smash hit (for me) and kicked off #DeanStreetDecember24 on a winning note.

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text from an ebook, as follows: The refining influence of natural beauty, particularly upon members of the Anglo-Saxon race, is a fact universally admitted, particularly by Anglo-Saxons.

The fact that I very literally laughed out loud at the opening SENTENCE of "Harlequin House", my 15th and final book for #DeanStreetDecember24 , fills me with hope & dread:

Hope that the book stays this funny, dread that it might not.
#middlebrow #humour

Review by robinwalter - Mystery Villa When it comes to that exalted icon of golden age mystery fiction, Dorothy Sayers, I may well b...

5/5 @thestorygraph.com for "Mystery Villa" book 14 for my #DeanStreetDecember24 A superb story, this one achieved a difficult feat - making me think well of Dorothy Sayers!

Also: spellcheckers be damned, if I wanna spell it "eery" I will! 😂
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Kobo Sage ereader with the following text highlighted: It's simply got to go on - like day and night, or a broadcast talk, or the traffic down the Strand, or one of Noël Coward's plays.

TFW your 14th #DeanStreetDecember24 book reminds you of your 12th. Punshon once again displaying his own "talent to amuse" (me, at least)

Many thanks for this wonderful submission for the #DeanStreetDecember24 reviews! 🥰🙏 #NoelCoward

Book review - Molly Clavering - "Because of Sam" #DeanStreetDecember24 Furrowed Middlebrow, Dean Street Press, Dean Street December, Scottish novels, 1954 novels

Book review – Molly Clavering – “Because of Sam” #DeanStreetDecember24
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Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett Dean Street December is hosted by Liz at Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home. You can find her main post here. I read Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett for Dean Street December last year...

MURDER WHILE YOU WORK BY SUSAN SCARLETT #bookreview #DeanStreetDecember24

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Book Review: Begin Again (1936) by Ursula Orange #DeanStreetDecember24
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A radical change in genre as I start book 11 of #DeanStreetDecember24 - after giving Punshon's "Crossword Mystery" 4.75/5 @thestorygraph.com it seems this @deanstpress.bsky.social reissue is SF! It must be, because having it within touching distance makes it a

Close Encounter of the Third Kind 🤣

Review 2515: Dean Street December! The Late Mrs. Prioleau Here’s another one for Dean Street December! Because of the war, Susan Prioleau never meets her mother-in-law before she dies. Mrs. Prioleau seems to have kept an unhappy home, with children …

"It’s a pity Monica Tindall only wrote one novel, because this is a good one."
Review 2515: Dean Street December! The Late Mrs. Prioleau
#bookreview #deanstreetdecember24 @lyzzybee.bsky.social
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"IT'S A CHARMING, COMFORTING, HEARTWARMING STORY - THE QUALITY YOU EXPECT FROM MOLLY CLAVERING."

BECAUSE OF SAM (1954) BY MOLLY CLAVERING #DEANSTREETDECEMBER24

#bookreview #bookchallenge #christmas2024
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Review by robinwalter - Crossword Mystery In his introduction to this third book in the Bobby Owen series Curtis Evans cites several rev...

4.75/5 @thestorygraph.com for "Crossword Mystery" by E.R. Punshon, book 10 of my #DeanStreetDecember24 A fun story with lots of Macbeth allusions, and a crossword that stumped me. Also lots of gold, Nazis on the periphery, and an utter meltdown at the end.

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I've been reading "The Crossword Mystery" really slowly, since Curtis Evans intro to the @deanstpress.bsky.social edition I'm reading called it fair play. I've just found out he lied. It's a locked room, and I ain't @tommeadauthor.bsky.social so that's UNfair play 🙂 #DeanStreetDecember24

Book review – Margery Sharp – “Harlequin House” #DeanStreetDecember24 My fifth review for Dean Street December 2024 and I've equalled my total for last year with several books outstanding and time to read and review them, and almost 30 reviews linked on the main post! We're reading books published by Dean Street Press, the indie publisher devoted to finding and republishing good fiction and non-fiction this month. See this post for all the detail on what to do, and the Main Post for links to everyone's reviews. I requested DSP books for Christmas 2023 and my birthday 2024 from my best friend Emma and this is my second birthday one from her; out of the seven books…

Book review - Margery Sharp - "Harlequin House" #DeanStreetDecember24

An unfilled crossword puzzle.

Looking forward to seeing if I can fill any of this in - a VERY unexpected feature of #DeanStreetDecember24. As to which of the @deanstpress.bsky.social books I'm reading features an actual crossword? It's a mystery! (to me, the game commences)

Wow! Curtis Evans intro for @deanstpress.bsky.social "Crossword Mystery", the third Bobby Owen and my tenth #DeanStreetDecember24 book, was SO VERY GOOD that it stopped me from starting the book!

(It's 23:37 here and the intro persuaded me to wait until both neurons are at least half awake) 😴😁

Kate Hardy (1947) by D.E. Stevenson #DeanStreetDecember 💚 When a lady bought the Dower House which Mr. Richard Morven from the Manor House had put for sale, it piqued the curiosity of the whole v...

"Kate Hardy is a comforting, witty, and funny story, sprinkled with a bit of mystery, superstition, and romance. Oh, and a glimpse of daily life of an author."
Kate Hardy by D E Stevenson #DeanStreetDecember24 #bookreview #FurrowedMiddlebrow
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Book review - Ursula Orange - "Tom Tiddler's Ground" #DeanStreetDecember24 1941 novels, country and town, Second World War novels, evacuees

"A really good read and I will be on the lookout for the author’s other works." Book review – Ursula Orange – “Tom Tiddler’s Ground” #DeanStreetDecember24 @lyzzybee.bsky.social
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Book review – Ursula Orange – “Tom Tiddler’s Ground” #DeanStreetDecember24 Well, here's my fourth review for Dean Street December 2024 and it's all going very well, with over 25 reviews linked on the main post! We're reading books published by Dean Street Press, the indie publisher devoted to finding and republishing good fiction and non-fiction this month. See this post for all the detail on what to do, and the Main Post for links to everyone's reviews. I requested DSP books for Christmas 2023 and my birthday 2024 from my best friend Emma and here's the second Christmas one from her (therefore fittings into my…

Book review - Ursula Orange - "Tom Tiddler's Ground" #DeanStreetDecember24

A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell – #DeanStreetDecember24 My previous experience with Frances Faviell has been limited to her Second World War memoir, A Chelsea Concerto, so I was curious to see what her novels were like. There are several currently avail…

I read A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell for #DeanStreetDecember24 - an excellent, but surprisingly dark read. My review is here:
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