Finished "The Hammersmith Murders" from 1930 by David Frome (pen-name of Zenith Jones Brown, with Leslie Ford and Brenda Conrad being others). It's a cozy, middle class, Scotland Yard mystery.The writing itself was well done, I liked the main character, and it had a great use of tetanus as a murder weapon, but it didn't knock my socks off and one thing that threaded through it was too glib. In part since Rex Stout really liked the series I have the next one, "Two Against Scotland Yard", queued up on my Kindle.
I got the one just finished via interlibrary loan... and have now learned that I am a bit nervous about reading old books in good condition that aren't mine. So I didn't bring it camping, or out with me if the weather threatened, or to read while eating.
To read in those other times I had Nicola Upson's "Two for Sorrow" (her 3rd Josephine Tey mystery) on my Kindle. I thought it was the best of them so far (it builds on the first, the second really isn't needed to get to it) - I like her writing itself and she did a good job with the plot and characters The background on the real life Cowdray Club and Baby Farming were interesting.too. I could have done without the brief sex scene. Will keep reading the series.
