Category: How’s This Book?

  • Poirot Adventures: The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest

    Poirot Adventures: The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest

    Oh boy, time for another murder! A vicious crime has taken the national spotlight. During a dinner party, a man was brutally murdered and stuffed into the titular Baghdad chest. It seems to be an open and shut case, with the true killer already being captured. However, the wife of the victim believes the killer…

  • Poirot Adventures: Double Sin

    Poirot Adventures: Double Sin

    Time once again to put our little gray cells to work. While on the road, Poirot and Hastings make the acquaintance of a young girl on business for her aunt. When the goods she was planning to sell come up stolen, she naturally comes to Poirot for assistance. The sole suspect: a man with a…

  • The Name of the Wind: Beginning of a Legend

    This one has been sitting on my reading list for a while now. Did I know anything about it? Beyond the title: not a thing. But it seemed pretty popular, so I decided to give it a go… eventually. And now, one book read later, here we are. Did I find another gem? Or did…

  • Poirot Adventures: The Lemesurier Inheritance

    Poirot Adventures: The Lemesurier Inheritance

    Welcome back, Papa Poirot. What thrilling mysteries have you got for us today? A supposed curse has claimed the lives of several members of the Lemesurier family. The next suspected victims: two young boys set to claim the family’s inheritance. Poirot has his doubts about the curse, but he still suspects danger. Can our Hastings…

  • The Call of Cthulhu: Gods Beneath the Tide

    I had pretty high expectations going into this one. Most bits of Lovecraft I’ve seen before reading his work, from board games to TTRPGs to stories penned by other authors, have used this story’s title. Surely this has to be one of Lovecraft’s best, right? Let’s find out. Let’s answer the Call of Cthulhu together.…