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Pit of Screams by Garnett Radcliffe – a colonial tale. A Rajah keeps a pit of vipers where he sentences criminals to die. There is a pole in the pit where the condemned person can hang above the vipers until their strength gives way and they fall to their doom. It’s a spectator sport! Our narrator tells of one man, unfairly sentenced, and builds some great tension as the man hangs over the pit. The story is complete tosh and has some unfortunate outdated racial stuff, but it’s well written and very entertaining and has a delicious sting in the tail which genuinely took me by surprise. Another anthology of vintage mystery stories from the British Library and Martin Edwards, this time themed around animals, birds and insects but happily they are all in the nature of clues rather than victims! There are fourteen stories in total, as usual including some very well known authors, such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and Edgar Wallace, some that were new to me, such as Garnett Radcliffe and Clifford Witting, and some that have become stalwarts of this series, such as HC Bailey and F Tennyson Jesse. I'm thankful to Netgalley for the chance to review this collection. Any fan of mysteries from this period, and any animal lovers, are in for an absolute treat! This was a delightful collection of mysteries in a variety of styles, all sharing the common theme of animals. I enjoyed the forwards that talk more in depth about the role of animals in mysteries. I would have eagerly read the whole book on that topic alone. because I don’t like spiders, ants, etc. and i don’t want any insects in my bedroom. If there is a bug in my room i’m gonna panic and kill it especially if its a spider because i am afraid kill. Plus if we kill these bugs it can mess up the food chain and then there would be more bugs. I don’t think we should kill rats or mice because they don’t really do anything, but if they try

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Never lose your spark. Never lose who you are. Continue to create. Continue to build. Continue to learn and challenge yourself. Continue to foster your identity. Because, that’s the most important thing. Who you are. This is a proper police procedural, with the entire family being introduced before dinner. Then a death occurs, and there are more suspects than the investigating officer (who was also present at the scene) would care for. the possibilities keep changing, to the point that I almost saw the ending coming, but the author sifted through all possibilities anyway so my guess had to be there somewhere!(4 stars) The story here moves through several years before reaching a conclusion but going from start to finish felt engaging. A man loses jewellery stolen by an insect, or so he claims. These claims almost ruin his life, but he keeps moving on. I found the explanation more plausible than I would have imagined given how things had happened.(3 stars)

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The Man Who Hated Earthworms” by Edgar Wallace (Pamela’s pa) is awful, Garnett Radcliffe’s 1938 “Pit of Screams” was simply unreadable, and the rest forgettable. That includes G.K. Chesterton’s “The Oracle of the Dog” (1923) and “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” (1926), which is not up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s usual standard (as is true of many of Conan Doyle’s later stories). As ever with these anthologies, part of the joy of reading them comes from the mix of authors included, ranging from the well-known (Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton and Edgar Wallace) to the somewhat less familiar (Christianna Brand, Mary Fitt and Clifford Witting). Also of note is the seam of darkness running through this collection, with several of the stories channelling a rather sinister vibe not always associated with ‘cosy crime’ fiction from this era. It’s something that gives this anthology an interesting edge, very much in line with the predatory characteristics one might observe within the animal kingdom itself. On that ominous note, I’ll start with some of the gentler stories here and work my way up to the more ruthless end of the spectrum… Welcome to Creatures of Sonaria Wiki! This Wiki is based on the ROBLOX game, Creatures of Sonaria (a.k.a CoS), This is an RPG fantasy creature survival game, with varieties of different and unique creatures to play. The game is being developed by the ROBLOX Group, Sonar Studios.

Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries, ed. by Martin

Ham. I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted; or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleas'd not the million, 'twas caviary to the general; but it was (as I receiv'd it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine) an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation; but call'd it an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. One speech in't I chiefly lov'd. 'Twas Aeneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line- let me see, let me see:Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. leave it alone like Tim the writer. But otherwise i’ll kill it because i don’t want bug’s in my house. But in the other hand i don’t feel guilty about killing ants, spider, and the Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. I absolutely loved this one. So bizarre and quirky, just the kind of tone I like in a classic. I really enjoyed the personalities of these characters, and the criminal that they manage to thwart was just hilarious.

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So some excellent and varied stories and, as always, despite the varying quality in these anthologies, they are a great way of being introduced to new authors to look out for. This long scene contains some of the more famous passages from the play, including the “What a piece of work is a man” speech and the “O! What a rogue and peasant slave am I” soliloquy, as well as the comic first confrontation between Hamlet and Polonius.Solving the death depends on interpreting the actions of the family dog. Father Brown likes dogs, but refuses to believe in the mutt as an omniscient being who sees into the souls of men. He scorns this as a reversion to paganism with its mystical gods who take the forms of animals. I love his sweeping statement, "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense and can't see things as they are." That's telling 'em, Father. This was not a mystery. I did not see the ending coming, mostly because I kept waiting for something else to happen. The story is set in India with a crazy ruler behaving even crazier with his courtiers.The snakes are not as important as I would have otherwise thought (2 stars) Well in my opinion, i think that we should feel guilty because Ants did nothing to you. I mean how would you feel iif you were just walking minding your own biussnes and then your dead. Yea doesnt sound so good

Guilty Creatures (2020) directed by Dacre Montgomery ‎Guilty Creatures (2020) directed by Dacre Montgomery

I think it does matter if the bugs are in your house or out in nature. If I see a bug outside I would not kill it because bugs live in nature we can’t just go around killing all the bugs we see. However, Classical Monologues for Men• Classical Monologues for Women• Monologues for Seniors• Monologues for Children Thanks, Lesa. My library has one e-book available (though someone just beat me to it!) so it is on my hold list. Reply It’s a rare anthology that isn’t hit and miss; however, unlike Martin’s usual fare, Guilty Creatures contains as many duds and mehs as gems. I blame the paucity of detective/mystery stories with beasts rather than Edwards, an English solicitor and a mystery writer in his own right. However, I’m afraid most of the tales left me cold. The Man who Hated Earthworms; Pit of Screams; and The Man Who Loved Animals are not mysteries at all and one wonders why they were included. Bailey’s The Yellow Slugs was disappointing. Reggie Fortune is hard going and this tale just wasn’t worth the effort.Ironically, the first story in the first collection of Martin Hewitt stories is "The Lenton Croft Robberies" - a delightful illustration of our fascination with animals and how they become involved in all aspects of our lives, including crimes. It's a far more interesting story than "Janissary" and shows Martin Hewitt's common sense and knowledge of human nature at its very best. I honestly think that bugs are disgusting. If they are in your house then you should kill them. But if they are outside in nature then you should leave them alone because they are not harming you. They probaly are where they should be not in are homes.I think it is but i also think you shouldent kill to much of them of it’ll harm the population mut if you have a big bug is your house and you dont want them to be It’s always a joy to receive one of the latest British Library Crime Classics releases through the post, and this clever anthology of short stories, Guilty Creatures – a Menagerie of Mysteries, is no exception to the rule. (My thanks to the publishers for kindly providing a review copy.) Included here are fourteen vintage mysteries, each featuring an animal, bird or invertebrate of some description as an integral component in the case. As Martin Edwards notes in his introduction: Got this out the library! Yay libraries. And what an interesting variety of mysteries. Using the theme of animals in mysteries really conjured up stories that pushed the envelop and really brought in some different emotions and situations in each story. Also reminded me of how much we dismiss animals and nature around us in general.

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