Sharing a cosy autumnal vlog/video diary/scrapbook today on YouTube. Expect lots of autumnal colour, favourite books, favourite quotations, & Clark. Come on over, friends. Let’s look for joy together. 🍂📚🐶

"Further proof that Sara Woods is one of the best mystery writers in the field." The Houston Post Antony Maitland returns December 1st in Sara Woods' brilliant classic crime novel, Though I Know She Lies. #Availableforpreorder #bookstoresoftheworld #booksky www.waterstones.com/book/though-...

Many thanks @dchocolatelady.bsky.social for this spellbinding review! 🙏🥰

My thoughts on The Ring of Innocent by #BrianFlynn, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/t...

B is for Borgias: The Borgia Cabinet (1930), by J. S. Fletcher #bookreview #booksky @the-passing-tramp.bsky.social thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2025/11/b-is...

Happy Heavenly Birthday to the stunning Veronica Lake! #BOTD 1922 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/veronica-v...

This portrait (1928) of Geoffrey Rhodes by Charles Moheney was painted when with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, they were working on a mural for Morley College in London. The murals were destroyed by bombing in the 1940 Blitz on London.

This week's forgotten book is atypical in many ways for the Golden Age: it focuses on a poverty-stricken population who survived through petty crime while describing realistic police procedure. I found it compulsive reading. #ffb 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

It seems my world weary soul needs certain kinds of 'nice' books at the moment. Having to try and not just read vintage middlebrow and golden age mystery. I'm craving them. However, I just started The Mingham Air by Elizabeth Fair. The last of her books I had to read. @deanstpress.bsky.social 💙📚

Lovely review on Instagram for Furrowed Middlebrow's The House Opposite by Barbara Noble. #bookreview #booksky www.instagram.com/p/DRAhRtWgaCE/

DSP is republishing Sheridan Morley's biography of Audrey Hepburn in March 2026! 😊

My thoughts on The Fingerprint by #PatriciaWentworth #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/t...

DEATH OF A GAY DOG BY ANNE MORICE by Aubrey | Nov 11, 2025 #bookreview #booksky happinessisabook.com/death-of-a-g...

A novel way to remember. #PoppyDay

Eric Ravilious, was an official war artist in #WW2, one who was killed on Active Service in 1942. In memory of all who fought. #armisticeday

Don Paulsen The Flamingo Club April, 1966 The Flamingo Club was a jazz nightclub in Soho, London, between 1952 and 1969. It was located at 33–37 Wardour Street from 1957 onwards and played an important role in the development of British rhythm and blues and modern jazz.

📚 This week’s free Kindle! #FreeTillFriday The Fledgeling by Frances Faviell  #furrowedmiddlebrow #KindleUK #KindleUS #booksky www.amazon.com/Fledgeling-F...

This week’s #MurderEveryMonday celebrates crime fiction featuring a man or woman in the title - a nod to the genre’s enduring fascination with character and identity. crossexaminingcrime.com/2023/02/05/m...

As a by-product of recent books and discussions on the blog, we are now looking at books with a question mark in the title. Why Didn't they Ask Evans? Are you there God? It's me Margaret. Add some more to our list - or try answering a question.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/what...

Hergé, Novembre,1944. #Tintin

📚 Competition Winner Announcement! 🎉 We’re delighted to announce that Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social is the winner of our advance copy giveaway for Let’s Choose Executors by Sara Woods! Congratulations, Rae - we hope you enjoy this wonderful read ahead of its release. 🥰

It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.

My thoughts on Nursery Tea and Poison, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/n...

Criminally good guest blog post from Nick Halliwell! 🙏🥰 An Enterprising Science Officer Nick Halliwell Published on: 6th November 2025 #FridayVibes #vintagecrimefiction www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/blog_p...

Did you know that Noel Streatfeild once wrote a murder mystery? Murder While You Work is the ninth of twelve novels she published under the name Susan Scarlett–the only true murder mystery Noel Streatfeild ever wrote. #booksky #furrowedmiddlebrow www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-whi... #FridayVibes

"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." Lena Richard Dunham #booksky bookpalooza.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/q...

A Gothic mystery in a Welsh castle, and a look at Undine and Patricia Wentworth. A very obscure crime book from 1931 - by the author of the Jill pony books clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/murd...

Smouldering Fire by D E Stevenson #bonfirenight #reading #bookreview @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/books/review...

My determination to avoid posting Christie for #MurderEveryMonday meant I nearly missed 'the bus' for this week's theme 😆 crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverym... #Mystery #BookSky

This week's free kindle The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven by Sheridan Morley #FreeTillFriday www.amazon.com/Other-Side-M...

"The sensational murder that took place on the 8.33 motor-bus that runs from Esting to Raybourne" #MurderEveryMonday #crimefiction #coverart with a bus. #booksky Not sure what #MurderEveryMonday is? Here's the link: crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...

Let's read! The next two #books by Elizabeth Fair. Loved Fair's first two, and found her because @deanstpress.bsky.social #ReadOnlyDay #BirthdayPresent 💙📚

... and the state of my TBR this month librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Yesterday's launch post for Dean Street December, coming soon! librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/c... #booksky @deanstpress.bsky.social 📚💙 #deanstreetdecember25

Sara Woods’ brilliant whodunnit The Windy Side of the Law  returns this December. Sharp, witty, and steeped in intrigue, it’s a masterclass in classic crime featuring barrister-detective Antony Maitland. 📚 Available 1 December from Dean Street Press #MurderMystery www.amazon.com/Windy-Side-L...

Another Halloween entry - very different book but also Scottish. @catrionamcp.bsky.social Cartiona McPherson's Edinburgh Murders is second in a great new series - and the children's Halloween party is excellent. More apples, and also treacle scones clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/more...

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃 Autumn evenings call for cosy reading with a touch of mystery and plenty of pre-war charm. Best enjoyed with a blanket, a cup of tea, and perhaps a flicking candle… 🕯️📚 #Halloween2025

🎃 Spine-Tingling Reads for #Halloween👻 If the evening calls for flickering candles, a storm outside, and something a little eerie to curl up with, here are a few favourites from DSP: Cold Evil The Condamine Case The Case of the Hanging Rope The Dower House Mystery #classiccrime

A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

📚 #BOOKGIVEAWAY! Win an advance paperback copy of Let's Choose Executors by Sara Woods from our new set of Antony Maitland mysteries. To enter: 1) Follow @deanstpress.bsky.social and 2) Comment, telling us why you’d love to read it! Ends Sunday 9th Nov. Winner announced here. Good luck! ✨

RIP to the wonderful Prunella Scales, beautifully pictured here in February 1968.

📚 This week’s free Kindle! #FreeTillFriday 
The Red Lacquer Case by Patricia Wentworth #classiccrimefiction #murdermystery 🇺🇸 US link: bit.ly/4oy8PQg 🇬🇧 UK link: bit.ly/4oEj59N

📚 This week’s free Kindle! #FreeTillFriday 
The Red Lacquer Case by Patricia Wentworth #classiccrimefiction #murdermystery 🇺🇸 US link: bit.ly/4oy8PQg 🇬🇧 UK link: bit.ly/4oEj59N

For #murdereverymonday with real people, we give you Richard Whittington. It’s curtains in more ways than one. crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverym...

For the #1925Club, I read The Dower House by Patricia Wentworth, one of her early standalones before the creation of Miss Silver perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... #booksky

In today's Bookseller Magazine 😊 #sarawoods #december #neweditions

Nancy Barr Mavity was a well-known journalist who created a crime reporter named Peter Piper for her series of mysteries. In this one an hypnotic and conniving evangelist comes to a bad end. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This Little Measure by Sara Woods reviewed! #classiccrime #bookreview @DailyMail Available 1st December 2025 #ChristmasGiftIdeas www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Like his friend Francis Cadell, John Maclauchlan Milne saw the landscape of Iona in terms of pure colour. His paintings of the island (this is c1937) use a palette of bright greens, pinks, blues and mauve with touches of yellow, to capture the light.

❤ Happy Heavenly Birthday to the wonderful Molly Clavering #BOTD 🎂❤ A writer whose words still shimmer with warmth, wit, humour, and the keen eye for character that made her work so beloved. #republished #FurrowedMiddlebrow www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...