What a difference twenty years (or so) make. Coming after historical dreck "Scandal at High Chimneys" this post-war HM entry looks almost refreshing despite...
11384
Ritzner Von Jung
ritznervonjung
Apr 24, 2006 6:08 pm
Just read "Death on Milestone Buttress" and couldn't quite believe how crappy it was: poorly written and plotted and boring to the last degree. Won't read him...
11385
Kurvanas
Apr 25, 2006 2:05 pm
LOL... so that good, eh? Thomas...
11386
Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Apr 26, 2006 9:18 am
![Waugh, Hillary] - The Missing Man (1964) The cover of my copy calls this 'a reissue of his **early** thriller', which is stretching the truth a bit since...
11387
Ronaldo
ref4ust
Apr 26, 2006 12:03 pm
Here is my latest review: A. Fielding – The Upfold Farm Mystery Other reviewers have reflected on Fielding's love of complicated plots, replete with red...
11388
brucknerfan1951
Apr 27, 2006 3:14 am
I recently found a dog-eared paperback copy of Mignon Eberhardt's THE CASES OF SUSAN DARE at a Salvation Army store, and was glad to find it since I had never...
11389
mike5568
Apr 27, 2006 4:06 am
A few months ago I read Last Seen Wearing by Waugh (1952) and it pretty much would be described as you described The Missing Man. Nice writing, kinda bland and...
11390
agh7746
anita7746
Apr 27, 2006 7:45 pm
Hi Warren: I would love to have this book. Pleae let me know if I have responded in time, or did I miss the boat. Thanks Anita ... From: "brucknerfan1951"...
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Warren Malach
brucknerfan1951
Apr 27, 2006 10:16 pm
Anita: You are the only one who has responded, so the book is yours. You can send me your address offline at Brucknerfan1951@... and I will put the...
11392
Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Apr 28, 2006 5:20 am
The latest guest host was Theodora Du Bois - the first one who's not been identified, I believe. There is a new one up now. The Great Wiki Quiz remains...
11393
MG4273@...
nzkpzq
Apr 28, 2006 8:54 pm
Have read some books by Bois - but never seen her photo - just doubled checked, and there were no jacket pictures. She wrote some interesting scientific...
11394
mike5568
Apr 28, 2006 10:22 pm
The 57th annual St. Louis Book Fair started today and runs through next Wednesday. I went today and lasted an hour before the mass of humanity wore me down,...
11395
Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 29, 2006 12:08 pm
BEST NOVEL Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (Regan Books) BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel (St. Martin's Minotaur) BEST...
11396
Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Apr 29, 2006 12:28 pm
Not a mystery but an assemblage of odd tales, centred around the characters of Dyson and Phillips, two idlers who dabble in literature. By a stroke of chance...
11397
Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 29, 2006 1:04 pm
I have always thought Machen might have been a first-rate mystery writer had his interest not been, at least exclusively, in the weird and the bizarre. His...
11398
nick
nickhayuk
Apr 29, 2006 2:30 pm
... I know that we have discussed this one before on-list (and the other collaborative effort - The Scoop?). Judged as a decent mystery it is - IMO - a near...
11399
Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 29, 2006 3:56 pm
... been ... Cyril Hare? Friendly, Xavier...
11400
Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Apr 29, 2006 8:37 pm
Nope.....
11401
Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 29, 2006 9:32 pm
... OK. Give us a clue - only a tiny, little clue. Is he a Brit? An American? An Aussie? Or else? Friendly, Xavier...
11402
Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Apr 29, 2006 11:10 pm
With that lugubrious basset-hound look, what else could he be but British? Jon...
11403
Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Apr 30, 2006 3:14 am
Meynell, Laurence - The Thirteen Trumpeters (1973) When the definitive book is written on the collapse of the British Empire, there should be a chapter on the...
11404
Nicholas Fuller
stoke_moran
Apr 30, 2006 8:48 am
I have to say that I enjoyed it a lot. Given that it's written by thirteen authors without direction, it's surprisingly successful. Unlike Crime on the...
11405
Christian Henriksson
sven_christi...
Apr 30, 2006 4:14 pm
... I was going to guess at Cecil Day-Lewis, and then changed my mind. But now I've changed it back again. So, is it Nicholas Blake? Christian Henriksson ...
11406
Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Apr 30, 2006 5:12 pm
I've seen that face before... Friendly, Xavier...
11407
harry_vincent_31
harry_vincen...
Apr 30, 2006 5:12 pm
A.A. Milne?...
11408
Jeffrmarks@...
cincysingle
Apr 30, 2006 6:04 pm
Hi Does anyone on this list have a copy of Irregular Memories of the 'Thirties, the BSI book? I was hoping to look at the passage about Anthony Boucher, but I...
11409
pugmire1
Apr 30, 2006 10:36 pm
Definitely A.A.Milne....
11410
Douglas G. Greene
dgreene23529
May 1, 2006 12:41 am
I agree; it has to be A.A.Milne. See the description Clarice gave me, and which I quoted in JOHN DICKSON CARR: THE MAN WHO EXPLAIEND MRIALCES, page 201. Doug...
11411
pugmire1
May 1, 2006 12:48 am
There was some correspondence a couple of years ago about real-life impossible crimes (the Porte-Doree Metro murder was on example). It appears that another...
