Hi, Agatha -
As I said last time, I read this months ago and am wayyyy behind on my blogging and updating on Goodreads. I don't remember a lot of details, although I do know that I ended up really liking this despite being apprehensive that the solution would be supernatural.
I will do a more proper entry next time, dear Agatha.
Always,
b.
Dear Agatha,
I've gotta be honest. I read this book months ago and don't recall much detail, although the memory of having read it is favorable - hahaha. This book completed my 2021 reading goal on Goodreads - but then with the end of the year, tax season, general kid issues, health issues, life life life - I haven't logged the last number of my reads at all. That said, I unfortunately don't have a lot to say.
I did mark this little gem in "Adventure of the Christmas Pudding":
Mr Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
I did, as I read this short, Google some info on Christmas pudding, and English puddings in general. I think I am glad that it is not a big part of our traditions, as it doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.
"The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" felt familiar - and indeed it seems that it is a reworked version of a previous short story, "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest." "The Under Dog" and "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" I have read before, although I never remember the outcome. And "The Dream" and Greenshaw's Folly" were new and fun.
'Nough said. Thanks always,
b.
