Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Occupations in the Title

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog

The topic today is Books With Occupations in the Title  (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life). Mine are all fiction.

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers – a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery

The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin by Georges Simenon – one of the early Maigret books

The Librarian by Salley Vickers – set in the 1950s about a Children’s Librarian

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris – the Dreyfus affair, 1890s

The Accordionist by Fred Vargas – quirky crime fiction, set in Paris

The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton – creepy crime fiction about a coffin-maker

The Sea Detective by Mark Douglas-Home  – oceanographer, Cal McGill, more of an investigative story than crime fiction

The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald – the third Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh, crime fiction with elements of the supernatural  and parapsychology thrown in

The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge – a wartime tale of life in Liverpool in 1944, with an under current of psychological suspense.

The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton – historical fiction set in the summer of 1862, a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss

15 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Occupations in the Title

  1. You’ve got some great choices here, Margaret, as always. So many authors whose work I like, and you’ve reminded me that I haven’t yet read An Officer and a Spy and have meant to. Isn’t that the way, though? There are always so m any books that catch your interest but that you haven’t got to…

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