Margaret Erskine - Besides the Wench is Dead Cyril Hare - An English Murder Georgette Heyer - Detection Unlimited James Sherburne - Death's Pale Horse Van...
I've just learned that T. H. White (known to me as an author Arthurian saga - The Sword in the Stone etc) also had written detective novel in 1932. I've...
I had a copy of this, as published by reprint publisher Dover. It had a nice atmospheric setting, making it a bit spookier than most of the Carr works. The...
Friends: I recently wrote the following personal information for my LibraryThing profile and thought that it could be shared with the group. "About me Born in...
The March edition of the Criminal History web site (www.criminal-history.co.uk) is now uploaded. As well as an entirely new look, it includes an overview of...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Mar 1, 2007 9:15 pm
...towards the end of last year I read a dozen or so of his works on the trot, and probably because of that was struck by the number of times his hero or...
I read this about a year and a half ago and enjoyed it. Nice atmosphere and quite a change of pace while maintaining a good GAD structure. Too bad he didn`t...
Hi Mary, I've reviewed a number of Wallace books and would be happy to send you the reviews by email if you can't get into the Wiki ...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Mar 2, 2007 4:23 pm
GADers! Jon, I shall trundle over to the reviews and cast a eye over them. If I can't browse them, I'll write offlist to take up your offer, but I've read a ...
I've read it and agree with the critics. Bob Adey, in "Locked Room Murders' writes: 'A superb combination of thriller and detective novel, with perhaps the...
Crofts, Freeman Wills - The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express and other stories (1956) A disappointingly short collection of stories (191 pages), but all of ...
Blake, Nicholas - The Worm of Death (1961) None of the Loudron family are particularly balanced, but which of them or their hangers-on was loony enough to...
I neglected to mention that another famous writer of children's books, none other than Christopher Robin himself (A.A.Milne of 'Winnie-the-Pooh' fame), wrote a...
I'm reading MURDER! MURDER!! MURDER!!! A overenthusiatically-named omnibus of the first three Mr. & Mrs. North mysteries by Richard & Frances Lockridge. I just...
... You know, when I glance at the topic name too quickly, I read it as "Philo Vance & CS Lewis." Now =there's= an odd pairing. "The Lion, the Witch and the...
Still catching up with some old digests... ... Of course, I know who he is (I say, as if you have any way of knowing what I know and don't know, so thank you...
... I read one of the Mr. and Mrs. North books many years ago. I no longer have it so I don't recall which one it was. The only thing that's stayed with me is...
In a message dated 3/3/2007 7:56:14 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, MJB@... writes: You know, when I glance at the topic name too quickly, I read it as ...
S.S. Van Dyne is quoted in this month's edition of "Now Playing",the Turner Classic Movies' magazine-"The detective story is a kind of intellectual ...
Bellairs, George - Death of a Tin God (1961) Superintendent Littlejohn is back in the Isle of Man, on holiday this time, when he runs into a murder case. Hal...
Our last host was the late lamented Richard Prather. We now have a new host - rather hard to identify, I think, though someone may surprise me. Jon....
I've just posted online my review of Requiem for Rogues, by David Hume, at http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=87 . Not knowing anything about the author, I...
... That hasn't started yet--POV changes between chapters or scenes, yes, but not that I've noticed within a scene yet. One thing they do with POV that others...
Steve, My survey of Turner did not indicate to me that he was a lost great. The Hume books seemed beat 'em up thrillers. The Turner and Brady books are more...
I read a Bellairs a few months ago (Corpse at the Carnival) but I had no idea he was as prolific as the Wiki shows him to have been. The main things which...
Barry wrote: => the authors had the habit of switching viewpoints => constantly within scenes, moving from the mind => of Jerry North to that of Pam North to...
Some of his earlier work from the forties was quite praised. But, like a lot of our authors here, he may have written too much for his own good, artistically...
