Two Months of Reading
sorry that Lehane's wit does not come through in his writing, although Lehane describes himself as someone who has never bought into the good-will-out theory and his first book in this series won both an Anthony and a Shamus award. I would love to see him do a silly character like Bernie Rhodenbarr or John Dortmunder (author Donald Westlake), but I admit some predjudice of my own on this count. I am not a great fan of the hard boiled genre and truly love the laugh out loud funny mysteries. This probably is in part due to the fact that I am female, a situation which I cannot, unfortunately change, despite the availability of that particular technology. It would not change my taste in reading material.
I read the first and lastest of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series. Crocodile on the Sandbank being the first and The Ape Who Holds the Balance. I confess that the Amelia Peabody series is my favorite reading matter. I enjoy Elizabeth Peters' other two series (Vicky Bliss (my recent reading binge included the first in this series, Borrower of the Night) and Jacqueline Kirby) as well, but Amelia remains my favorite.
In order to keep you, my readers, interested I will tackle Edgar Allen Poe, who is considered the father of the modern mystery, but who's works I detest and Sherlock Holmes, another of my less than favorite characters. I cannot do justice to a page dedicated to mystery genre without including the masters (and the mistresses, Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Dorothy Sayers, all of whom I love their works) of mystery. I will try to look at all of these with an open mind.
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