Project Status Report: 1st April 2025
Fourth Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
As always - the last fortnight entries and The Next Up Reading List in full.
Fortune, Mary
Nothing But Murders and Bloodshed and Hanging, Mary Fortune. Edited Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown
Between 1865 and 1910 Mary Fortune wrote over 500 crime stories, set in the Victorian goldfields, Melbourne and the outback. Published initially in newspapers and the like, they form the first detective fiction series written by a woman, although she was published under a series of pseudonyms hiding both her real identity and her gender from the wider world.Read more
Project Status Report: 28th February 2025
Third Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
Successes
- Read Better Left Dead, Catherine Lea (review to come)
- Read ...Read more
Project Status Report: 3rd February 2025
Second Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL'.
Successes
- Read - Panic, Catherine Jinks (to be reviewed at Newtown Review of Books)
- Read - Cold ...Read more
Project Status Report: Mid January 2025
Think of this, if you will, as a Status Report on the Project 'KEEP THE READING QUEUE UNDER CONTROL' which is officially now a thing around here. You never know, reporting on it like a project might keep the targets clear, and the deliverables.. err ... delivered.
The reader of...Read more
Nothing But Murders and Bloodshed and Hanging
A murderer is identified by a team of oxen. A dead man rises from a watery grave to indict his killer. A phantom hearse gliding through Melbourne’s slums foretells violent death. A seamstress turns detective to avenge her friend’s homicide. A locked-tent mystery. ...Read more