COME AND BE HANGED! By Agatha Christie. Dodd, Mead. 1944. $2.00 [a.k.a. TOWARDS ZERO] "The misdirection is superb . . ." - Nick Fuller - GAD Wiki " 'Towards...
31962
miketooney49
May 17, 2013 12:37 am
Excerpts: "The Chinese have no detective fiction. Neither, for that matter, have many non-Anglo-Saxon people. The French have some, but Southern Europe and...
31963
Monte Herridge
monteherridge
May 17, 2013 2:07 am
The Japanese have detective fiction and seem to enjoy it. The Judge Dee stories that Van Gulik wrote, were the earliest ones based on real stories? Monte...
31964
Allan Griffith
dfordoom2
May 17, 2013 2:29 am
... As I understand it his first book, CELEBRATED CASES OF JUDGE DEE, was a translation of the 18th-century Chinese novel DEE GOONG AN. That novel was itself...
31965
Allan Griffith
dfordoom2
May 17, 2013 2:42 am
... My understanding is that Chinese detective stories often involve supernatural elements. So a case might be solved by testimony from the murdered man's...
31966
Douglas G.
dgreene23529
May 17, 2013 5:24 pm
The Chinese have a long tradition of detective fiction, primarily centering around heroic magistrates utilizing the supernatural. Vincent Starrett wrote an...
31967
Last Century Detective
lastcenturyd...
May 17, 2013 6:56 pm
I finally return to regular reviews with a look at a short story collection by Vincent Cornier. Full review:...
31968
miketooney49
May 17, 2013 7:53 pm
THE DUEL OF SHADOWS: THE EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF BARNABAS HILDRETH. Crippen & Landru. 2011. 163 pages. ". . . for me, 'The Duel of Shadows' was a mixed bag of...
31969
Douglas G.
dgreene23529
May 17, 2013 8:59 pm
Judge Bao was not the only magistrate in Chinese detective stories. Nor was Judge Dee. Following are other examples. Most important is the following book,...
31970
vegetableduck
May 17, 2013 9:26 pm
I enjoyed this one: http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2013/05/murder-at-bermuda-1933-by-willoughby.html Curt...
31971
Douglas G.
dgreene23529
May 18, 2013 3:36 am
Yahoo did odd things with my posting -- the most grievous changes were a bunch of incomprehensible symbols in PARALLEL CASES FROM UNDER THE PEAR TREE. Here (I...
31972
miketooney49
May 18, 2013 7:17 pm
Two thrillers that, in this reviewer's opinion, don't quite make the cut. - Arthur Knight - "Ghouls Rush In" - THE SATURDAY REVIEW - January 23, 1965 -...
31973
Patrick O
go_leafs_nation
May 19, 2013 9:18 pm
So... how about that Josephine Tey? Is "The Daughter of Time" really as good as it's supposed to be? I personally don't think so. I think this book has some...
Yes, it is a murder mystery. Images: - http://tinyurl.com/bgs5gc7 - http://tinyurl.com/9wzwljs - http://tinyurl.com/bfut4oe - http://tinyurl.com/b8nuzod -...
31976
Allan Griffith
dfordoom2
May 20, 2013 2:09 am
I'm afraid that "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" was a movie I really hated with a passion. But then I;ve always had very mixed feelings about Billy...
31977
miketooney49
May 20, 2013 4:59 pm
MURDER IN BERMUDA. By Willoughby Sharp. Claude Kendall. 1933. $2.00 ". . . represents a class of Golden Age detective novel largely forgotten today, because it...
31978
miketooney49
May 20, 2013 6:13 pm
FATAL DESCENT. By Carter Dickson & John Rhode. Dodd, Mead. 1939. $2.00 [a.k.a. DROP TO HIS DEATH] "Readers who enjoy a good impossible crime story really...
31979
miketooney49
May 20, 2013 6:44 pm
High-tech safe cracking, 19th century-style (with pictures). "It is quite evident that the ordinary precautions are quite insufficient to guard against such...
31980
curt evans
vegetableduck
May 20, 2013 7:13 pm
That second Saturday Review “review” as I mentioned on the blog is a real piece o’ crap, to be blunt! The New York Times Book Review notices were much...
31981
miketooney49
May 20, 2013 7:42 pm
Excerpts: "It is a curious and instructive study, full of interest to the metaphysician, the philosopher, or the scientist." "The slang of the criminal is not...
31982
miketooney49
May 20, 2013 9:42 pm
For Holmes, it would be elementary. Full article: " 'A curious use of the microscope,' says 'The British and Colonial Druggist', 'was lately made in Prussia. A...
31983
vegetableduck
May 21, 2013 12:09 am
Now we know what he looked like. I think this is the first one on the net, though there are tons of photos of his son. ...
31984
jmelsna
May 21, 2013 10:07 am
The late lamented BOOK AND MAGAZINE COLLECTOR devoted much of its final issue to the supernatural, and featured a story by Richard Dalby on the "top 25" occult...
31985
Monte Herridge
monteherridge
May 21, 2013 10:07 pm
Thanks for the review of - Ann Margaret Lewis, author of Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes. The book sounds very interesting, and...
31986
Patrick O
go_leafs_nation
May 22, 2013 8:33 am
A fascinating crime novel by Leonard Holton in which a woman's severed head is discovered in a church: ...
31987
Last Century Detective
lastcenturyd...
May 22, 2013 8:55 pm
I read my second book from the 87th Precinct series and feel like real convert now. Full review:...
31988
miketooney49
May 22, 2013 11:17 pm
Several GAD sleuths encountered this particular method of dispatching someone. Full article: " 'The executions in Paris during recent years have revived the...
31989
miketooney49
May 22, 2013 11:33 pm
Can, or can't, someone be hypnotized into committing a crime? Excerpt: "THE assertion that crime may be committed by proxy, by means of hypnotic control, which...
31990
miketooney49
May 23, 2013 12:04 am
Excerpt: "IT is astonishing how little of the powerful and delicate mechanism of modern science has been perverted to the uses of criminals. It was recently...
