Live Flesh by ruth Rendell is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, but it is only ranked 6409th on the Greatest Books of All Time, it has just 134 reviews on Goodreads and more importantly for this obscure corner, it was not enjoyable for the under signed – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant

 

Live Flesh by ruth Rendell is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, but it is only ranked 6409th on the Greatest Books of All Time, it has just 134 reviews on Goodreads and more importantly for this obscure corner, it was not enjoyable for the under signed – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant

 

6 out of 10

 

Malice Aforethought https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/malice-aforethought-by-anthony-berkeley.html is such a mesmerizing mystery novel that I have problems in accepting other works, such as Live Flesh…"It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Doctor Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter." These are the first words in Malice Aforethought and think how valiant this is

 

You know that Doctor Bickleigh wants to kill his wife, though it is not yet decided if he would do it, but then you are told he did take steps in the matter, therefore you have a whole book to see if he executed the plan – this is number four, or near that place, on the list of Best Mystery Novels, complied by the British authors

I did not find the excitement of Malice Aforethought in Live Flesh – which could be my fault, although this is only 6409th according to the algorithm of The Greatest Books of All Time site, then few people bothered with it on Goodreads, where it has only 134 reviews (135 now), nevertheless, it was adapted by Pedro Almodovar

 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-murder-of-roger-ackroyd-by-agatha.html by Agatha Christie is yet another exceptional crime story, also in the top five of the Best 100 Detective Novels, as compiled by British Authors – I guess it is also appreciated by the Americans, on their own list

We have the doctor telling us what happened, how he knew Roger Ackroyd, found the body, elements of the narrative, only to see at the end (a spoiler alert will not be needed, I have no idea how Live Flesh ends, I abandoned it early on, this is about another, better book) that the doctor was also the…murderer, now that is a surprise

 

Crime and Punishment https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor.html is the nec plus ultra, indeed, it should be number one, the Best Mystery Novel Ever, because the murder is not the point, this is a chef d’oeuvre which goes beyond the detective aspects, it is more philosophical.

The reader is not so much captivated by the killing, he has much more to think about, Raskolnikov is debating whether he will become Napoleon, somebody important, or he will forever live in misery, at least this is how I remember it, I have read it as a teenager, for the first time, and it was transformational, it had a strong impact

 

These were days when I took the book in the balcony, then climbed into the kitchen and read using candles, we were four living in two rooms, so I needed to let my father sleep, these were the days of the Ceausescu regime http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html described in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm

 

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