Status Updates From The D'arblay Mystery

I’ll kibosh it shortly. It is funny that part of this one relates to Charles the Second, and I just came from him being an actual character in John Dickson Carr’s novel Most Secret. We’re doing theme-reading here, but I didn’t know it! This has turned out to be a great pick for Halloween season, even though we’re not that close yet. Would have worked for even closer…the fog, the sudden attacks - very suspenseful.

This is the first novel I have ever tackled by this author, though I have read some of his short stories, and thought they were quite good. The first 50 pages have been terrific. This book is part of my ‘Horror and Creepy Mysteries’ reading project and it is fitting well; the cover got it included, and what has happened so far has been creepy, so I was not lead astray by creepy glove and syringe imagery.

"To a man whose mind is working actively, walking is a more acceptable mode of progression than riding in a vehicle. There is a sort of reciprocity between the muscles and the brain – possibly due to the close association of the motor and psychical centres – whereby the activity of the one appears to act as a stimulus to the other...."

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