tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post5568585416451471221..comments2024-03-28T09:33:29.705+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: What’s on the Christmas TreeClothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-5859381710655209392017-08-28T07:47:59.504+01:002017-08-28T07:47:59.504+01:00Very good and very thriller story which revolves a...Very good and very thriller story which revolves around the murder. However I love your blog and real all those articles which I have read till. Keep posting.Medina Bazarhttps://www.medinabazar.com/clothing/abayas.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-58304528735612337772016-12-27T11:59:47.737+00:002016-12-27T11:59:47.737+00:00Thanks for the info, and yes indeed. She wasn'...Thanks for the info, and yes indeed. She wasn't just phoning it in, was she? I did always feel her characters had lives of their own. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-32811252789396431152016-12-27T11:59:04.389+00:002016-12-27T11:59:04.389+00:00I'm not a big short story fan, but I think I D...I'm not a big short story fan, but I think I DO like seasonal ones. (I asked for the PD James collection for Xmas, and look forward to reading it). I don't know if I've read The Case is Altered - what is it about?<br />I'm suggesting to Margot that Bill may know what a spray-flecked seal looks like. He probably has a picture.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-13174698154330957282016-12-27T11:57:43.197+00:002016-12-27T11:57:43.197+00:00'Rich' is such a good word for her writing...'Rich' is such a good word for her writing Margot, and yes, she was very witty. The spray-flecked seal is excellent. I wonder if Bill would be able to tell us more...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-34089507797358887752016-12-27T00:56:05.576+00:002016-12-27T00:56:05.576+00:00December 24th 1961 in The Sunday Telegraph. Alling...December 24th 1961 in The Sunday Telegraph. Allingham wrote more than one Xmas story (I can think of THE CASE IS ALTERED from the 1930s)but this one is especially interesting due to how late it was in her career. She had three novels left at this point, and was not in the best of health, so the feeling of nostalgia is rather similar to that of Christie in the Christmas Pudding story that you were talking about a few days ago. Of all the 'Crime Queens' I've always felt that Allingham's stories had the richest backgrounds. It's like she is tapping into a real world that is going on all the time behind her fiction. There is the character Thomas Knapp, who first appears back in the second novel from the early '30s, turns up now and again, and suddenly reappears in the penultimate novel in 1965. You feel that he's there all the time, living out his life just out of sight of the series.<br /><br />Alligham had very high standards, and it feels as if she put the same amount of effort into the short pieces as she did into the long pieces. She couldn't just throw off the shorts in ten minutes. She really did work at them.<br /><br />GgaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-66693570302696630712016-12-26T21:14:50.801+00:002016-12-26T21:14:50.801+00:00This is not the story I read last year in Martin E...This is not the story I read last year in Martin Edwards' collection, Silent Nights. That one was titled The Case is Altered. Maybe I wasn't in the mood at the time, the description I have read sounds like it should be good. Maybe puzzle type mysteries don't suit me in short stories. <br /><br />This one sounds interesting with a "residential hotel full of aged toffs." But I want to know what a "spray-flecked seal" looks like.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-78061909313147068962016-12-26T12:30:48.633+00:002016-12-26T12:30:48.633+00:00I don't know how Allingham managed, either, Mo...I don't know how Allingham managed, either, Moira. That sounds like quite a rich story, especially for such a short one. And I like that wit woven through the story, too: <i>...exactly like a spray-flecked seal...</i> - priceless! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com