Every year I make a list of classic mysteries to read and I always enjoy it. This year I'm going slightly rogue and mixing in two non-mystery classics as well - though I'm staying on the light side.
1. Midsummer Mysteries: Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie - Several collections of Agatha Christie short stories have been released. Some are rereads for me though some aren't and I will always take an excuse to read Agatha Christie short stories.
2. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers - This isn't the next Lord Peter Wimsey that I have to read but it is the next one that I have on my shelves and I'm looking forward to it.
3. Mr. Zero by Patricia Wentworth - I'm slowly making progress through the non-Miss Silver mysteries from Patricia Wentworth.
4. Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh - This is the next Roderick Alleyn book that's on my shelf though I missing quite a few. If I enjoy this one even close to as much as I enjoyed the Marsh I read in 2024 I have a lot of shopping to do!
5. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart - I have really enjoyed the Mary Stewarts that I have read and this is one I found at the used bookstore this year.
6. Rest You Merry by Charlotte MacLeod - I loved the first book in another series by MacLeod so of course I have to try the first in her Peter Shandy series
7. Parting Breath by Catherine Aird - This is the next in the Inspector Sloan series that I have on my shelf.
8. Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey - This is a non-Inspector Grant book from Tey but is one that I've been wanting to read.
9. Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery - This is a reread of one of my favorite books and I'm so looking forward to it.
10. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - I've read a few Jeeves books but never the first one. Plus, my grandmother was a big fan of the Jeeves books and they remind me of her.
Any classics you're hoping to read this year?
Hope you enjoy Touch Not The Cat. It's one of my favorite Mary Stewart books and I've read it several times.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent classics list. I've read very few classic mysteries. The last few years I've tried to read at least a couple, including my first Agatha Christie a year or so ago!
ReplyDeleteMary Stewart was one of my favorite mystery writers. I mean to go back and revisit her books.
ReplyDeleteI've read Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Charlotte McLeod, I like the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe stories and the Ellery Queen ones too.
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Hope you enjoy them, I keep thinking I must try reading Mary Stewart again after a lot of years.
ReplyDeleteGreat list. I hope you get a chance to read them.
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