Tri-City Literary Reviews

Book Review: The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

“The Gangs of New York” is a book penned by renowned American novelist and journalist Herbert Asbury. The book focuses on the historical developments of New York Underworld. As a reader you might find that the book only gives a rather ramshackle description of New York, which lurks with corrupt policemen, thugs and other gangsters. The story is based in the year 1928 and gives a glimpse of New York filled with robbery, murder, corruption, arson and other similar misdeeds. More

You’re A Bad Man, Mr Gum!

I should not be reading Mr Gum. There, I said it, I admitted it, and now hopefully I can have myself some peace! Mr Gum is a children-scaring, horrible old man who loves nothing better than sliming things just because he can, and being utterly, dreadfully miserable. If he could eat children and get away with it he would, I bet. But alas I do, despite him being obnoxious to a fault and thoroughly miserable to the core! Andy Stanton More

Book Review: Molly Carr’s The Sign of Fear

The Sign of Fear is Molly Carr’s first book. A crime novel based on a fictional detective, it is published by MX Publishing and comprises 314 pages.

The story has two heroines – Mrs Watson and her assistant Emily Fanshaw. Mrs Watson is married to Dr Watson who is a friend of and assistant to Sherlock More

Book Review: “The Invention of Murder” by Judith Flanders

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