These are the books that I added to my library in October 2023. I bought all of these off Amazon, some for the challenges that I’m participating in, and the …

THE DEVIL AND THE C.I.D. is a very hard-to-find treasure from 1938 by Edith Caroline Rivett, who wrote under the pseudonym E.C.R. Lorac. It features her series character, the Scot Inspector Macdonald, and involves a body left in the boot of the Inspector’s car.

Craving Tim Ho Wan’s steamed chicken? I was too—until I made my own version! This Steamed Chicken with Jujubes and Cordyceps Flowers is flavorful, hearty, and easy to recreate at home.

In celebration of Agatha Christie’s birthday and this month’s BCCC theme (and my entry for the BCCC Bingo), I’ll be going through my top 5 novels featuring one of my favorite detectives of all time – Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christie’s most famous detectives. The Belgian detective was introduced to the world in 1920 and has since appeared in 33 novels, 51 short stories, and 2 plays.

This month’s book that I’m reading for the #readchristie2023 challenge is Easy To Kill, also known by its original British title, Murder is Easy. In this post, I’ll be listing some of the tropes/plot devices that Christie uses in this book