hahaha, okay, I can deal with addled brains in wuv :)
Oooo, do not know anything about Martinelli. Will try post-haste.
Thanks muchly for telling me about the Russell books! :) I haven't gotten so excited about a book in a while :) Russell, for no reason I can clearly articulate, basically captured my heart, in a way that Harriet Vane (though I think the Sayers novels are really really really good) never quite did (though I feel like an utter cad for saying so, and Gaudy Night is still my favorite mystery of all time) (actually... you were asking about this, and there is NO murder in Gaudy Night, although I dunno, it is steeped in human evil and misery for all of that, so it may not meet your criteria really). And I myself have a huge crush on Holmes dating back to, oh, junior high or so, so...
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Oooo, do not know anything about Martinelli. Will try post-haste.
Thanks muchly for telling me about the Russell books! :) I haven't gotten so excited about a book in a while :) Russell, for no reason I can clearly articulate, basically captured my heart, in a way that Harriet Vane (though I think the Sayers novels are really really really good) never quite did (though I feel like an utter cad for saying so, and Gaudy Night is still my favorite mystery of all time) (actually... you were asking about this, and there is NO murder in Gaudy Night, although I dunno, it is steeped in human evil and misery for all of that, so it may not meet your criteria really). And I myself have a huge crush on Holmes dating back to, oh, junior high or so, so...