I had an eerie experience when reading Collectors, Cats, & Murder, by Kahty Manos Penn. One of the characters collects letters, letters from famous authors. He puts them in archivally safe page protectors and binders. Just before I read that, I, too, was putting letters (although not from famous authors, but rather those written during WWII) in protective pages and binders, too! The collector here was an elderly man, so why was he murdered? And what, if anything, was missing from his 'treasures'? Fortunately he has indexed everything, where he found it, when, what he paid and so on. It is a big task, to check everything, but when Leta and the other members of the Little Old Ladies' Detective Agency do so, they know exactly what is missing ... several letters ... there were many more valuable items, so why just those? There are a few new additions to the LOL Detectives this time, and as always, help from the talking pets (which only Leta can hear). This is the fourth book in the Dickens & Christie Mystery series.

The Dales Detective Series, by Julia Chapman is one of my favorites but I will say this ... Date With Poison was a tough read. The writing was as good as always, I stayed up late one night, and spent the next day doing only the 'doggy' chores, but this was one .... grim (and compelling) read! Lots of sad/bad/nasty stuff going on. The past starts to catch up with Samso, there are some unexpected twists, and a bit of a cliff hanger at the end!

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