Spy-murder mashup ‘The Clocks’ (1963) is worth your time
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie’s playfulness is on display in “The Clocks,” where she gets amusingly cynical about the spy state.
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Spy-murder mashup ‘The Clocks’ (1963) is worth your time
Christie, Marple still sharp in ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ (1962)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): The author and her detective lament the new Development near St. Mary Mead, but crime-solving principles remain unchanged.
‘Ordeal by Innocence’ (1958) badgers the bystanders
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie shows that when everyone is a suspect, the guilty person catches a break, and the innocent suffer.
King poetically chronicles dying small town in ‘’Salem’s Lot’ (1975)
Stephen King flashback (Book review): King’s definitive vampire novel is about more than vampires as it chronicles a crumbling Maine township in the 1970s.
Crichton explores ‘Five Patients’ (1970), ‘Electronic Life’ (1983)
Michael Crichton Monday (Book reviews): Crichton makes health care understandable and eases people into the early days of home computers.
Blake stakes out next gen in ‘Buffy: In Every Generation’
Book review: This alternate-timeline novel introduces us to Willow’s daughter and new Scoobies while dodging the nostalgia trap.
PKD makes a cinematic bid with ‘Ubik’ screenplay (1985)
PKD flashback (Book review): Although the novel remains superior, the “Ubik” screenplay has breathing room for a deft filmmaker to make a stylized movie.
‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ (2007) shows Hughes’ lasting impression
Hughes Day Tuesday (Book review): In this bonus installment of HDT, I look back at the 2007 essay collection about Hughes’ six 1980s teen films.
Crichton, Preston present big adventure in ‘Micro’ (2011)
Michael Crichton Monday (Book review): It’s a shame Crichton died before his time. But Preston ably finishes his final novel, an adventure in miniature.
King’s career starts with bloody bang in ‘Carrie’ (1974)
Stephen King flashback (Book review): King’s novel-writing career starts with a timeless classic of the teen-outsider genre.