Herring on the Nile

A popular cliché about a football match is that it was a game of two halves; well, it could be said of 'Herring on the Nile' that it was a book of two halves, or more correctly a book of two-thirds a...

easy going read in the series this time based on a boat cruising the nile, based loosely on the christie novel but not as good though ...

In an effort to rejuvenate his flagging career, crime novelist Ethelred Tressider decides to set his new book in Egypt and embarks on a ‘research trip’ with his literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle, i...

In this, the fourth, Herring novel, Ethelred and Elsie take a trip down the Nile as research for Ethelred's next novel. It's got some lovely touches reminiscent of Agatha Christies novel which make yo...

Another great addition to the Ethelred and Elsie series. Elsie, in particular, cracks me up with how she perceives herself versus how others see her. The book made me want to reread Agatha Christie's ...

This is a further episode in the adventures of Ethelred and Elsie. Not that it is absolutely necessary to have read the previous novels to enjoy this book; it is a standalone “story of murder, espio...

2 stars out of 5 - I finished it, for what that's worth. The author has a pleasant enough writing style, and I get that he intended the novel as a bit of a tribute to Agatha Christi, or was at least i...

The ending was a little convoluted but I overall enjoyed the story.After the last story, Ethelred has decided that he needs a trip to Egypt. Maybe it will help him with his next story (though the only...

I've now read five of L.C Tyler's Ethelred and Elsie books and enjoyed the humour and the interaction between the two key characters. This book, however, had the feeling of it having been written by s...

A bit of slapstick, a bit of farce, never too broad to be un-enjoyable. The device of the multitudinous sets of interview questions, which Ethelred fills in with increasing pathos as the book goes on,...