all right

Occasionally adding corroborative details to add verisimilitude to otherwise bald and unconvincing,
but veridicous accounts
with careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination.

Some Books Bought in 2020

Leo Bruce, Crack of Doom.
Lee Child, Die Trying;
 ———, Killing Floor.
Gary Corby,  Death on Delos;
 ———, The Singer from Memphis.
Rupert Croft-Cooke, Fall of Man;
 ———, Night Out;
 ———, Picaro;
 ———, The World Is Young.
Lindsey Davis, A Dying Light in Corduba;
 ———, The Accusers;
 ———, Alexandria;
 ———, A Body in the Bath House;
 ———, The Graveyard of the Hesperides;
 ———, The Ides of April;
 ———, The Iron Hand of Mars;  
 ———, The Jupiter Myth;
 ———, Last Act in Palmyra;
 ———, Master and God;
 ———, Nemesis;
 ———, Ode to a Banker;
 ———, One Virgin Too Many;
 ———, Pandora’s Boy;
 ———, Poseidon’s Gold;
 ———, Saturnalia;
 ———, Scandal Takes a Holiday;
 ———, Shadows in Bronze;
 ———, The Third Nero;
 ———, Three Hands in the Fountain;
 ———, Time to Depart;
 ———, Two for the Lions;
 ———, Venus in Copper.
Lord Alfred Douglas, The Rhyme of F Double E.
Lauren Elliott, Murder in the First Edition.
Robert Fabbri, Tribune of Rome.
Alan Dean Foster, Impossible Places;
 ———, Relic;
 ———, Strange Music.
Dick Francis, In the Frame;
 ———, Knockdown.
Felix Francis, Refusal.
Erle Stanley Gardner, The D.A. Goes to Trial.
Ann Granger, Beneath These Stones;
 ———, A Better Quality of Murder;
 ———, Bricks and Mortality;
 ———, Call the Dead Again;
 ———, Dead in the Water;
 ———, The Dead Woman of Deptford;
 ———, A Fine Place for Death;
 ———, Keeping Bad Company;
 ———, Murder among Us;
 ———, The Murderer’s Apprentice;
 ———, Rack, Ruin and Murder;
 ———, Rooted in Evil;
 ———, Running Scared;
  ———, Shades of Murder;
 ———, The Testimony of the Hanged Man;

 ———, A Touch of Mortality;
———, That Way Murder Lies;
 ———, An Unfinished Murder.
Robert Harris, Dictator;
 ———, An Officer and a Spy.
Douglas Jackson, Caligula;
 ———, Claudius.
Diane Kelly, Dead as a Door Knocker;
 ———, Dead in the Doorway.
Mercedes Lackey, Spy, Spy Again.
John Lennon, In His Own Write.
Barbara Levick, Claudius.
Alistair MacLean, Seawitch.
Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head.
J.E. Macdonnell, Alarm—E-Boats!;
 ———, Coffin Island;
 ———, Command;
 ———, Enemy in Sight;
 ———, The Hammer of God;
 ———, Northwest by North;
 ———, The Power and the Privilege;
 ———, Object: Destruction;
 ———, Strike Force;
 ———, This Ship Is Mine;
 ———, Target Unidentified;
 ———, The Unforgiving Sea;
 ———, The Weak Link;
 ———, Wrong Diagnosis.
Giles Milton, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day.
James Patterson & Howard Roughan, You’ve Been Warned.
Barbara Paul, Prima Donna at Large;
 ———, The Renewable Virgin.
Plato, Crito.
Barry B. Powell, Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet.
Luciamo Rebay, Introduction to Italian Poetry.
John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt, 1746-1813: Architect to George III.
Steven Saylor, Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome.
George Bernard Shaw, Love among the Artists.
Nevil Shute, The Chequer Board.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, We Never Make Mistakes.
Rex Stout, Over My Dead Body.
Arthur W. Upfield, Bony and the Black Virgin;
 ———, The Mountains Have a Secret;
 ———, Murder Down Under;
 ———, No Footprints in the Bush.
Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth.
Hywel Williams, Emperor of the West. 105

some books bought in 2019;

some books bought in 2018;
some books bought in 2017;
some books bought in 2016;
some books bought in 2015;
some books bought in 2014;
some books bought in 2013;

some books bought in 2012.

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