Many photos, interesting text. The overlapping story of gas and electric was well laid out. My quibble is it only briefly mentions the glass lamp bases made in the depression--which was a significant change from the metal bases common since oil was replaced with gas and electric--and shows none of them. That is, of course, the time frame and type I am most interested in! Ah well.
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kayote finished reading The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman

The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman
The Fallen Man is the twelfth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series …
kayote rated Something in the air: 4 stars
kayote finished reading Something in the air by Emma Lathen
kayote finished reading Dr. Sam. Johnson, detector by Lillian De La Torre (IPL library of crime classics)

Lillian De La Torre: Dr. Sam. Johnson, detector (1983, International Polygonics, Distributed by Academy Chicago)
Dr. Sam. Johnson, detector by Lillian De La Torre (IPL library of crime classics)
In eighteenth-century England, Dr. Johnson and his biographer, James Boswell, investigate nine mysteries which involve highwaymen, hidden treasure, and murder
kayote finished reading Got Time by Shirley McCann
kayote reviewed American Lighting - 1840-1940 by Nadja Maril
kayote reviewed THREE (3) DOORS TO DEATH by Rex Stout
Repetative, and shouldn't be
All three are good on their own, but they should not have been put together. The method used by Wolfe in two of them is way too close to be in the same set (and it's a method that smells slightly of author not having a good solution anyway). This is the second set of three I've read recently and they both would have been better had they swapped a story.
kayote finished reading Complete & utter failure by Neil Steinberg
kayote finished reading Asimov's Mysteries by Isaac Asimov (Panther science fiction)

Asimov's Mysteries by Isaac Asimov (Panther science fiction)
A collection of hybrid science-fiction/mystery stories. The mysteries usually turn on a point of science, but the author plays fair …
kayote finished reading The Moth Keeper by K. O'Neill

The Moth Keeper by K. O'Neill
Being a Moth Keeper is a huge responsibility and a great honor, but what happens when the new Moth Keeper …
kayote finished reading Food play by Joost Elffers

Food play by Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann
1v. (unpaged) : 18 cm
kayote finished reading Three at Wolfe's door by Rex Stout

Three at Wolfe's door by Rex Stout
In Three at Wolfe's Door, death comes a-calling not once but three times in this murderous collection of cases from …