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Just finished "The Act of Roger Murgatroyd" by Gilbert Adair - a pastiche of Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" - very entertaining, clever and with a lot of wit. The denouement is funny, but not entirely convincing. This is the first of the "Evadne Mount" stories - another is "A Myterious Affair of Style" which I shall look out for after reading the original, which is this month's MR bookclub choice.

Now reading "The Man in the Picture: a ghost story" by Susan Hill. So far it's been cozily spooky, in the tradition of late 19th and early 20th century English ghost stories.