The Invisible Event
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The Invisible Event is my attempt at compiling all that i have to say about Crime Fiction books and authors. Hi, I'm Jim Noy and I love to read classic crime fiction. I'll usually try most things from the Agatha Christie era and will commit to definitely reading something if it features an impossible crime.
The Invisible Event
2d ago
I’ve read a lot of middle-of-the-road books lately, so thought I’d take away the pressure of expecting something to be good and read an author who is, at the very least, usually entertaining if nothing else. And so The Nameless Crime (1932), the next Walter S. Masterman title on my TBR, comes into its own ..read more
The Invisible Event
4d ago
Is the the best title in the Sherlock Holmes canon? I don’t mean the best story, but rather the most intriguing combination of words put together to entice you in. If so, prepare to be slightly disappointed by… ‘The Musgrave Ritual’ (1893) The Case To get out of tidying his flat, Sherlock Holmes pulls out ..read more
The Invisible Event
6d ago
Thirty stories from the pen of Cyril Hare, an author whose legal-themed novels leave me rather cold, but whose scattered short fiction I have encountered is typically very positive. So a chance to dig deeper into that his miniature plots is to be seized. The opening tranche, sectioned off in the contents under the title ..read more
The Invisible Event
1w ago
Having researched and written a book in which a woman poisons several people, Victoria Hime inevitably ends up as the prime suspect when someone close to her is poisoned by the same means. The fact that several people came and went from the Himes’ house on the day of the poisoning is the only light ..read more
The Invisible Event
1w ago
Many authors and film-makers would seek to overturn this in the years ahead, but as far as the canon goes we find ourselves visiting Sherlock Holmes’ first ever case. Avast ye! It’s time for… ‘The “Gloria Scott”‘ (1893) The Case Holmes relates the story of a visit to the home of his friend Victor Trevor ..read more
The Invisible Event
2w ago
Another month, another Sherlock Holmes pastiche, this time from the very enjoyable US TV series Elementary (2012-19). My belated discovery of two novelisations in that universe was a source of immediate interest, and so The Ghost Line (2015) by Adam Christopher found its way onto my TBR. Before even opening the book, I had reason ..read more
The Invisible Event
2w ago
Following the revelation at the end of my recent review of Case for Three Detectives (1936) by Leo Bruce that I had not read three of sometime-Sergeant William Beef’s later cases, a friend has staged an intervention and leant me Case with Ropes and Rings (1940), Neck and Neck (1951), and Cold Blood (1952). So ..read more
The Invisible Event
2w ago
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes, solidly 15 of which must be among the most prized creations in the genre. The other 41, then, vary somewhat. Today, easily forgotten amidst far more accomplished fare, we have… ‘The Stockbroker’s Clerk’ (1893) The Case After unsuccessfully seeking work for some time, clerk Hall ..read more
The Invisible Event
3w ago
Having recently read the twentieth novel in the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series, and the tenth to be written by someone other than series creator Robert Arthur, my mind turns to how Jupe, Pete, and Bob have fared with multiple hands now directing their fates. I’ve read these ten books over the course ..read more
The Invisible Event
3w ago
On the day when the United States of American celebrates its independence, let’s turn our eye upon American author Erle Stanley Gardner, here publishing the ninth novel to feature Bertha Cool and (the triumphant return of) Donald Lam, Give ‘Em the Ax, a.k.a. An Axe to Grind (1944). Having been invalided out of the Navy ..read more