"The Youth Hostel Murders"

I am not now and never will be a mountain climber. I have considerable difficulty getting up on a ladder to change a lightbulb. The prospect of clinging to a mountainside on a six-inch ledge, with the next step down several thousand feed below me, horrifies me. That said, I find myself really enjoying a series of British mountain-climbing mysteries written by Glyn Carr half a century ago. That includes "The Youth Hostel Murders," which is the subject of this week's review on my "Classic Mysteries" podcast.

"The Youth Hostel Murders" is a good read, with murder and a dash of witchcraft, and a great deal of detail about mountain climbing as well. Listen to the podcast to learn more about the book and how to find it - and why I think that, if you enjoy classic mysteries, you would enjoy it.