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		<title>&#8220;King Solomon&#8217;s Carpet&#8221; by Barbara Vine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;King Solomon&#8217;s Carpet&#8221; is one of the books Ruth Rendell wrote as Barbara Vine. An award-winning book, too, but I didn&#8217;t like it much when I read it for the first time, which must have been about four years ago. I found the book depressing and put it back on the shelf at once.

Now, having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/03/08/king-solomons-carpet-by-barbara-vine/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Cause of Death&#8221; by Patricia Cornwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It happened in the USA, in Virginia, during the last days of 1995 and the first month of 1996. It started when, instead of cooking lasagna for the New Year Eve Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner of Virginia, had to dive into the cold water of the Elizabeth river just so she could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/28/cause-of-death-by-patricia-cornwell/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Hallowe&#8217;en Party&#8221; by Agatha Christie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hallowe&#8217;en party for schoolchildren who are over 11 has been a success. The contests have been finished, the winners defined and the prizes given for everything: bobbing for apples, cutting the flour cake and the best decorated broom. After the Snapdragon everyone should go home &#8211; there is nothing more to do here. Only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/23/halloween-party-by-agatha-christie/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Fleshmarket Close&#8221; by Ian Rankin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another one of the two huge volumes I received as a gift from an English friend &#8211; it&#8217;s obvious that Ian Rankin doesn&#8217;t fancy short novels. Inspector Rebus never investigates one case at a time &#8211; he has to have several, and his friend DS Clarke (Siobhan) usually works on a few more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/22/fleshmarket-close-by-ian-rankin/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Shroud for a Nightingale&#8221; by P.D.James</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young student nurse dies during a demonstration in the Nightingale Training College &#8211; she acts as a patient, and two fellow students demonstrate intra-gastric feeding. The feed that is thought to contain milk turns out to be disinfectant, which makes Nurse Pearce&#8217;s death extremely painful. It happens in the presence of Miss Beale, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/21/shroud-for-a-nightingale-by-p-d-james/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Case of the Perjured Parrot&#8221; by Erle Stanley Gardner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This neat and tidy detective story is part of the author&#8217;s Perry Mason series. Perry Mason is, as we know, a defense attorney who usually makes his stunning discoveries and solves crime mysteries in the courtroom &#8211; usually as soon as at the inquest, without waiting for the trial.

&#8220;The Case of the Perjured Parrot&#8221; tells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/20/the-case-of-the-perjured-parrot-by-erle-stanley-gardner/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Importance of Being Earnest&#8221; by Oscar Wilde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Importance of Being Earnest&#8221; is a light-hearted play &#8211; and like everything written by Oscar Wilde it&#8217;s absolutely perfect. The author has produced the greatest abuse of Victorian morals, but in such a charming way that nobody could possibly be angry with him for this.

At the start of the play we see two young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/05/the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The ABC Murders&#8221; by Agatha Christie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one of Hercule Poirot cases &#8211; this time, his friend Captain Hastings is here too. The setup is a little unusual &#8211; before each murder is committed, Hercule Poirot receives a letter from the murderer, challenging him &#8211; and then, when it&#8217;s actually committed, Poirot can do nothing about it. Not every day we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/03/the-abc-murders-by-agatha-christie/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Swing, Swing Together&#8221; by Peter Lovesey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As three men with a dog travel along the Thames in a boat faithfully following the route taken by the characters of &#8220;Three Men in a Boat&#8221; by Jerome K. Jerome, Sergeant Cribb follows them. They are his chief suspects in the murder of a tramp. Accompanied by Constable Thackeray, Constable Hardy and a young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/02/01/swing-swing-together-by-peter-lovesey/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;A Case of Spirits&#8221; by Peter Lovesey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first encounter with this English author&#8217;s work &#8211; today at the English Speaking Club (hosted in a library in Saratov) I picked two books by him, and started with this particular one. The book, as Wikipedia tells me, was written in 1975, but the events take place approximately 90 years earlier. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foreignreadersays.com/2010/01/30/a-case-of-spirits-by-peter-lovesey/</link>
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