Dany Ashton is an innocent abroad. Brought up by a very strict, ultra-protective aunt, she has seen very little of the world and this story is about her first excursion alone. And it just might wind up being her last. Dany's mother hasn't been much of one. She has made her way through several...
I have a soft spot in my heart for all things Germany-related, and this 1955 murder mystery, set in post-WWII Berlin, has its charms, but it was kind of like an old-timey train ride (the kind this novel actually starts out with). The train has some reasonably comfortable sleeping compartments, an...
Murder mystery with a dash of romance, written in 1960 and set in the exotic Andaman Islands, a former British penal colony that is now part of Bangladesh. Caroline Randal, known as "Copper," is a young Englishwoman invited to visit her old school chum, Valerie, who now lives on Ross Island in th...
This was a fun, old-fashioned whodunnit, complete with exotic location, intrepid heroine and steely-eyed hero. And now I really want to visit Kashmir.Gulmarg ski resortThey fanned out on the crest of Slalom Hill and each took their own line, swooping down over the crisp shimmering surface like a ...