2004 mystery, twenty-second in Muller's series about Sharon McCone, private investigator in San Francisco. Sharon's newest employee, Julia Rafael, is arrested for credit card fraud. Did she do it, and if not, who's got it in for her?
1969 crime, dir. Peter Collinson, Michael Caine, Noel Coward: IMDb / allmovie. You wouldn't hit a man with no trousers on, would you?
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array sums and differences. (Note that this ends today.)
2023 Victorian romance. Naomi Kwan is registering for an "ambulance" (first aid) class, and finds she needs a fiancé to be taken seriously. Liu Ji Kai turns up at just the right moment, and is prepared to go along with a fake engagement. But he's the son of a confidence trickster who made himself deeply unwelcome in Wedgeford, and now he's come back… to make pottery?
2010 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, first in the Jack Logan series. Fifteen years ago the murderer the press called Mister Whisper kidnapped and killed three children; Jack Logan arrested him. Now another child has gone missing and the exact same trappings are showing up; did Logan get the wrong man?
Back to one of my favourite conventions, still at the Royal Highland Centre next to Edinburgh airport.
1976 science fiction, dir. Michael Anderson, Michael York, Jenny Agutter: IMDb / allmovie. In the city, everyone accepts that they will die at age 30; or they run, and are hunted down and killed. But the central computer is determined to find and destroy the Sanctuary that they're running to.
2023 non-fiction, astronomy and autobiography. Mike Brown recounts his role in the discovery of Quaoar, Eris, Sedna, Haumea, and other minor planets. And how Pluto got demoted.
1973 science fiction, dir. Richard Fleischer, Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson: IMDb / allmovie. A routine murder investigation will lead to a terrible secret. (Spoilers for a fifty-year-old film.)
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and matrix incrementing. (Note that this ends today.)