I love the Golden Age of Crime
No, I don't mean there was a time when everyone was going around killing everyone on a whim (although that sounds a bit like now if you believe everything you see and hear in the media). I mean the Golden Age of Crime novels, written mainly between 1930 and 1960.
When people ask me what I like reading, up crop a few of my old favourites which nestle in the bookcases in my office and are well thumbed indeed.
" The Moving Toyshop" by Edmund Crispin and "The Silk Stocking Murders" by Anthony Berkely are fantastic and fun as well as being good mysteries. Then, of course, there is the great Agatha Christie, and on the American side the wonderful Raymond Chandler. My favourite read is anything that has a puzzle to solve, some interesting characters and a fast-paced dialogue.
Oh, and I love Georges Simenon especially Maigret, you're there right with him. Now that's what I like.
When people ask me what I like reading, up crop a few of my old favourites which nestle in the bookcases in my office and are well thumbed indeed.
" The Moving Toyshop" by Edmund Crispin and "The Silk Stocking Murders" by Anthony Berkely are fantastic and fun as well as being good mysteries. Then, of course, there is the great Agatha Christie, and on the American side the wonderful Raymond Chandler. My favourite read is anything that has a puzzle to solve, some interesting characters and a fast-paced dialogue.
Oh, and I love Georges Simenon especially Maigret, you're there right with him. Now that's what I like.
Comments
As for Simenon, he was the subject of a study, 'The Art of Simenon' by Thomas Narcejac, one half of the Boileau-Narcejac duo who wrote the book on which 'Vertigo' and 'Les Diaboliques' are based. Very good, though very different from Crispin, the wonderful Berkeley, and Penny.
Regards,
John