Reviews

Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays by Cecily Gayford, Julian Symons, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellis Peters, Margery Allingham, Michael Innes, Ruth Rendell

lucyfionabooks's review

3.0

Actual Rating: 3.25/5 stars

I was really looking forward to reading this but unfortunately, I wasn't very interested in quite a few of the mysteries and a few weeks on from reading it I can barely remember most of them!

jensreadinglife's review

4.0

I enjoyed this collection of short stories all set in summer or on holidays. As always with collections like these, some stories are better than others but I enjoyed all of them. This is the perfect summer read for classic mystery lovers.

knightleyreads's review

5.0

I really love detective fiction - particularly British detective fiction so I loved this - some of my favourites were here - Father Brown, Inspector Wexford to name a couple. I discovered new detectives that I had not met yet and so I now own books that star these characters to see how we get on. I liked the short story format for introducing me to people I wanted to read more about.
Highly recommend!

brian's review

3.0

So-so collection of murder mystery stories. The title seems to be trying to get people who like "Midsomer Murders" type mysteries to pick it up.

Featuring some well known characters (Holmes, Father Brown, Wexford etc) as well as some one-shots from authors like Ellis Peters (not Cadfael, unfortunately).

Being a collection, there's a mix of good and not so good stories set in different locations and at different times.
There's nothing unexpected, making this a good holiday read and will possibly get picked up again when I need a quick time filler.