Quick and quirky mysteries series - fun reads!

If you have read earlier posts on my blog, you have read mentions of my beloved childhood novels: The Outdoor Girls On A Hike. I am 80 years old and I remember those novels and the joy and adventure they brought into my life as though it were yesterday. I devoured them - and I collected them! I have about a dozen. They were published in the 1920's and I got them from the also many times mentioned bookcase in my Grandmother Lavinia Lyon's basement. Well for a couple of years now, I have been reading, with a similar enjoyment, the novels of Vicki Delaney, also writing under the pen name of Eva Gates. It was the Lighthouse Library series by Eva Gates that I first discovered, and having been a library worker once myself, I was immediately charmed. Then I discovered that the author, under the name of Vicki Delaney also wrote a series of mysteries set in a Sherlock Holmes bookshop in Cape Cod! I LOVE Sherlock Holmes and I wasn't disappointed. Notes on the author call her work witty and full of twists and turns and engaging characters - all true! And the settings are marvelous. Delaney is a retired computer programmer and systems analyst who has written over 50 novels in a few different series and she has been awarded for her work. She is is a Canadian, born in 1951 and mother of 3 daughters (who says you can't do it all!)

I have mentioned the Lighthouse Library series set in the Outer Banks, and the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, set in Cape Cod. I have found there are also these:

Tea by the Sea, Constable Molly, A Catskill Summer Resort, and Ashley Grant, and a Klondike Mystery, as well as a few others.

I am so glad there are so many because I can't bear to think of reaching the end!

By the way, a series I enjoyed jsut before I discoverd Eva Gates was The three Pines Mysteries which has become a video series on amazon prime. Those were written by Louise Penny. These writers are in the long tradition of great women mystery writers such as the greatest of all - Agatha Chiristie! And there was P. D. James, and Dorothy Sayers.

Currently, watching streaming on my laptop (I had to give up tv when my eyesight got so bad I couldn't really see at that distance) I am re-watching Hercule Poirot on pbs passport. I have also finished watching Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone, and then those with Jeremy Brett on YouTube. Winter brought me into mystery season, and I am hanging out here for a while to come! Mystery readers - I hope I have introduced you to some new books to enjoy - whether in paper book form, or audio book. I am listening to audio books due to my eye sight problem and the reader of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop novels has a delightful voice and British accent!

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