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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: Shadows over Baker Street. A Sherlock Holmes/Cthulu Mythos crossover anthology of short stories by various authors.
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Which was slow going. I definitely prefer novels to short stories.
It was, of course, a mixed bag. Some were poor. Some were excellent.
Next up:
Odds Against by Dick Francis. His first book featuring Sid Halley.
Written exactly 60 years ago, it's a fascinating look at 1964, as well as a very good thriller.
The office boy, for example, "His hair grew robustly nearly down to his shoulders, wavy and fanatically clean, dipping slightly in an expensive styling at the back. From behind he looked like a girl, which never disconcerted him. From in front his bony, acned face proclaimed him unprepossessingly male. He spent half his pay packet and his Sundays in Carnaby Street and the other half on week nights chasing girls. According to him, he caught them. No girls had so far appeared in the office to corroborate his story."