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Reading The Four Just Men. Edgar Wallace. And dipping into Literary Tastes,by Arnold Bennett.

Just started Edgar Wallace's The Four Just Men.His first of 200 thrillers written in 1920. Great success. Got two books from the library today Bullitt. by Robert L. Pike. Made into a film staring, Steve McQueen. And CSI Miami. Jeff Mariotte. The basis for a TV thriller series.

Thanks Toadal for the list. I shall have to look out for him. He is one I have never read.

I have re-read 1984 three times. Scary, but great writing. Sir Walter Scott's books several times. Terrific adventure. And I have just finished re-reading a whole shelf of Black Dagger crime novels and a shelf of Library of crime books.Just great thrillers. I also re-read all of Terry...

I would like to recommend crime lovers try reading the novels of John Creasey, who sometimes wrote under the name of J.J. Marric. The novels I refer to are the Gideon series.No other author since Dickens has done more to show London in all its many aspects. The books are more than than just...

Just finished "The Anatomy of Crime." by Joseph F. Dinneen. This book is a honey,a reconstruction of the Brinks robbery in America which netted $2,500,000. Not to be mistaken with the Matt Brinks robbery in england.

I have just finished reading "Good Evans". by Edgar Wallace. He usually wrote thrillers, but this is a humourous book about a racing tipster. Remonisant of Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls. He calls himself "Educated Evans." But he is far from being so. He is for ever rattling off facts and...

Recently sent for "The Ringer." By EdgarWallace. Remember reading it when I was about 11. Loved it. Still waiting for it to arrive. About to start another E.Wallace today. "Good Evans" published in 1930. Probably send for "The Four Just Men." Also by him.

Terry Pratchett's Diskworld novels are very humorous. I have 8 of his books and several that I have read from the library. to discover him for the first time is like finding gold.

Started reading Ian Rankin's "Strip Jack." This is my first Rankin novel. I enjoy the TV series, so hoping I will enjoy the book.

Modern classics. would like to enter a few what I would call, modern classics. Jack Kerouac's Desolation Mountain, The Vanity of Delouz, On the Road, Visions of Cody Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage.Catalina...

Litany! I agree with you one hundred pecent. Alexandre Dumas is a great adventure writer. Along with Sir Walter Scott and Daniel Defoe, you can't beat them for high adventure. I fear that the younger generation miss out on reading these great literary giants.

Listening to Sam Weller talking in Mr Pickwick's parlour.

I have this book, it is great. Been years since I have read it, but anything of Mark Twain is terrific reading. This is a book you can dip into though, rather than read it right through.

Trying to read a Dalziel and Pascoe thriller but going to sleep and I am not 200 pages into it. I usually love these books, but this one is just boring. Readers Digest would have condensed it to 200 pages and made it interesting. But as it is,it just sends you to sleep. It is On Beulah Hights.

MMYAP. Let me know how you like the book

Yes. That was one of his most famous ones. Made into a film.

Reginald Hill's "On Beulah Hight." a Dalziel and Pascoe novel. Library book.

Axisage. I'm sure you will enjoy all of Ed Mc Bain's 87th precinct novels. There used to be a tv series based on his novels which was great also. Like an early, Homicide life on the Streets.

Reading "The Watchman," by Chris Ryan. And picked up two books from the library,Reginald Hill's "On Beulah Height." and H.R.F. Keating's "A Detective Under Fire."