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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 7d

✨We’re delighted to announce the next five novels in Sara Woods’ classic Antony Maitland mystery series, returning to print this December from Dean Street Press!✨
Sharply plotted, endlessly readable, and perfect for fans of Golden Age-style crime.
#christmascrimefiction #booksky

the next five novels in Sara Woods’ classic Antony Maitland mystery series, returning to print this December from Dean Street Press!

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 12h

“Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.” Oscar Wilde

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 18h

Comfort read: Angela Thirkell's social comedies always entertain, and we get hats again. Before Lunch (she was running out of nice lightweight titles) clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/befo...

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell (and hats again)

Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell published 1939 This was, I believe the last of Thirkell’s books to appear before WW2 broke out: she ...

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Why did I reread Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley? Because Shedunnit were doing an episode with spoiler zones, so I wanted to make the most of it. The mystique surrounding this 1913 book, and its lasting influence, are fascinating.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shed...

Shedunnit, and Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case by EC Bentley published 1913 Caroline Crampton’s Shedunnit podcast is a great favourite round here, and when she ...

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 1d

"The stranger-than-fiction life of Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1938) was packed so full of incident that one can understand why his work as a crime novelist has been rather overlooked." Sir Basil Thomson's Richarson Series by Martin Edwards
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Eight colourful covers of Sir Basil Thomson's golden age murder mysteries. New editions available at Dean Street Press.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 1d

How Lethal is your Library?
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How Lethal is Your Library? Find out with Agatha Christie!

It’s actually harder to come across a body in the library than you might expect. Agatha Christie described this trope as one of the ‘cliches’ of ‘the detective story’. Over the course of her career…

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

This week's free Kindle
A House on the Rhine by Frances Faviell #freetillfriday
US🔗 bit.ly/4n18Rza
UK🔗 bit.ly/3KWDQPd
#furrowedmiddlebrow #booksky

Print of girl's face looking pensive as she clutches an envelope. There is a port with boats and a church behind her.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 2d

Dame Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent Curtis Brown has announced.

Dame Jilly Cooper dies aged 88

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

No city names here - our #MurderEveryMonday titles keep it regional, rural, or national. #crimefiction #coverart #Booksky
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Vintage style cover art for the Sussex Cuckoo by Brian Flynn with a red and yellow lino cut image of a bird and a torn letter.

Vintage style cover of Murder on Paradise Island by Robin Forsythe with a black and white tropical island and sinister octopus beneath.

Vintage style cover of The Orange Axe with a couple dancing in 1930's fancy dress.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! 🥰🥰🥰

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UncleRobin @unclerobin.bsky.social · 3d

No city names in the TITLES of any of my #MurderEveryMonday entries this week, instead a country, a county and a 'region'. One from a specific house, of course. The publishing house of @deanstpress.bsky.social #Mystery #Booksky
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Cover for "Death in a Shetland Lane" by Marsali Taylor, showing an image of a narrow lane between pasture grounds on an island

Cover for "Death in a Strange Country" by Donna Leon, showing a image of Venice

Cover of the Dean Street Press edition of "The Sussex Cuckoo" by Brian Flynn. The central image shows a bird in flight holding a piece of paper with writing on it

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Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social · 13d

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Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social · 5d

What is it about DE Stevenson? Massive bestselling author of the mid 20th Cent, strange structures, page-turners, and excellent details of life - from ironing nylong to hatshops. This one is The Blue Sapphire, early 1960s. clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/iron...

Ironing Nylon & a Hatshop: The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson

The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson published 1963 [ excerpt ] ‘Miss Julia,’ [the housekeeper] said. ‘Are you sure you’d not lik...

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks! 😊

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

Oscar Wilde by award-winning biographer and theatre critic, Sheridan Morley to be republished by Dean Street Press, Spring 2026 #OscarWilde #biography #comingsoon

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 5d

I like it!

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 6d

Agreed. ‘Cosy’ doesn’t mean bloodless. It’s more about tone: small-scale settings, amateur sleuths, and violence kept (mostly) offstage. Murder still very much allowed! What alliterative term would you use instead?

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 6d

How Cosy Murder Mysteries Fight Ageism and Being Underestimated
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How Cosy Murder Mysteries Fight Ageism and Being Underestimated 🔍

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry

1. Impressionism
Roses sway in softened reds,
Violets swim in murky blues,
Sugar sparkles in the light,
Blurring into golden you.

2. Surrealism
Roses are melting,
Violets are too.
Ceci n’est pas le sucre.
Keith is a giant crab

3. Social Realism
Roses are dead,
Violence is rife.
Don’t sugar coat
This bitter life.

4. Abstract Expressionism
Are and.
Violets roses so.
You sweet blue.
Are are red is sugar

5. Pop Art
Roses go BLAM!
Violets go POW!
Sugar is COOL!
You are so WOW!

6. Conceptual Art
Roses are red,
Coated in blood:
A deer’s severed head
Drips from above

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 6d

Who didn’t love Dr Jane Goodall? Nothing to do with this group, but we join the world in mourning the passing of this remarkable woman. #RIP 💔
(Photo from the Jane Goodall Institute UK)

Black and White photo of Dr Jane Goodall, aged 91, with her face resting on her hand.

Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much! 🙏🥰

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Martin Fone @frimleyblogger.bsky.social · 6d

My thoughts on The Case of the Sapphire Brooch, reissued by @deanstpress.bsky.social #CrimeFiction #BookReview #booksky
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The Case Of The Sapphire Brooch

A review of The Case of the Sapphire Brooch by Christopher Bush – 250811 With The Case of the Sapphire Brooch, the fifty-fourth in Bush’s long-running Ludovic Travers series, reissued by Dean Stree…

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 7d

'Street and Railway Bridge.' (1946)
John Minton’s paintings of London during and shortly after the Second World War often include displaced people and the bombed out shells of buildings. A pile of rubble fills the foreground of this picture of a deserted London street.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 7d

There appears to be a growing collection of DSP books on your middle shelf! 😍😍😍

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Liz Dexter / LyzzyBee 📚📚🏃‍♀️ @lyzzybee.bsky.social · 7d

State of the TBR October 2025 - not too bad, actually ... librofulltime.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/s... #booksky 📚💙💡

Three shelves of books with one double-stacked.

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 7d

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