Back to the Masonic Hall for a damp and muggy weekend.
2025 romantic fantasy, first of a new series. Felix is the young, widowed Archduke, cowed by his family and waiting to be murdered in the pursuit of power, until he suddenly realises that there's nobody left that he cares about to be hurt if he runs away. Meanwhile, the villainous Queen Saskia seems to have the one kingdom where his family can't reach him…
1939 poetry, descriptions of various cats-about-town.
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, eighth in the Logan McRae series. A man turns up burned to death, gangland style; someone's beating up Asian drug dealers; oh, and two teenage lovers haven't been seen for a few days. Logan McRae will, ultimately, solve all of these cases…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string replacements. (Note that this ends today.)
1948 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, James Stewart; IMDb / allmovie. Two students commit the perfect murder, and to prove it host a dinner parry over the corpse.
2024 romance. Cole James was the bad boy on a soap opera, bought into the image a bit too much, and has being trying to rehabilitate his life and career ever since. Maggie Niven was a school drama teacher forced out by a parental complaint, now starting a new career as an intimacy coordinator. They're both working on the Bridgerton-esque TV adaptation of The Heart of Midlothian.
1951 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, Robert Walker; IMDb / allmovie. Tennis star and political wannaba Guy Haines meets a strange man on a train, who seems to know too much about his private life and proposes that they each commit the murder that the other would find convenient. The price of fame. Then Guy's estranged wife is killed…
2025 horror-romance-fantasy. The town of Lake Argen, deep in rural Ontario, seems quiet and boring. They work hard to keep it that way…
1965 Shakespearean adaptation, dir. and starring Orson Welles: IMDb / allmovie. Falstaff!