... Contrariwise from you, I'd say that late Queen is, but Dashiell Hammett is not. ... Do post reviews. They're always welcome, and may get other people here...
as someone else (? Nick) has recently posted a review of this, I thought you might like to have another view. I'd had it in TBR for ages without reading it and...
Alternate title - "A Dog in the Daytime" Published in book form in THREE WITNESSES in 1956 Novella, @ 20,000 words This story was written in 1954 but the...
I think a lot of the members of the GAD group also belong to this forum at http://www.jdcarr.com -- if not, it's well worth checking out. The format is quite a...
Additional EQ Detective: Drury Lane (under the author name Barnaby Ross). There are only four books in this series, all written before 1933. The titles are...
I agree with Nick that X is one of Queen's best; don't have any problem at all with murder method no. 1, as I don't think it matters a whit just what was used...
... problem at all with murder method no. 1, as I don't think it matters a whit just what was used to kill victim no. 1 but how it was used. I think Y is just...
I thought the disease in Tragedy of Y was meant to be syphilis. Regards, Nick Fuller 'There is no past tense in the conjugation of genius, especially when it...
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett, (1929) B- / 2.5 I believe this is the first Continental Op novel, and this very early Hammett reads like an overlong story...
The Franchise Affair, Josephine Tey (1948) A- / 4.0 This fascinating novel tells the story of the kidnaping of a sweet young girl, two strange women accused of...
The Broken O, Carolyn Wells (1933) B / 3.0 One of the later Fleming Stone novels, this is a solid and decent classical style mystery about a wealthy bridegroom...
I just read a novel I found to be excellent, "Murder On Safari" by an author named Elspeth Huxley. Sadly, it's her apparently only novel ever published in...
I think there were two more by Huxley set in Africa, but am not sure since my copies are packed away in the cellar (my 30 feet of bookshelves are not enough to...
... From what I've read, she wrote a handful of mysteries that take place in Africa. The first is "Murder at Government House", which was followed by "Muder on...
Carolyn Wells rated discussion in Pronzini's "Gun and Cheek" -- his hilarious book about 'alternative classics' in the mystery field. As he remarks about Mary...
His "Gun in Cheek" and the sequel "Son of..." is an analysis of detective novels that are so bad that they are fun to read and can be defined as 'alternative...
A friend of mine sent me a copy of Pronzini's article on Mitchell--and I certainly don't agree with Pronzini's belief that Mitchell is dull and arch in a...
"you say potayto and I say potahto, you say tomayto and I say tomahto...." We're each entitled to our own opinion, although some of us might be a bit noisier...
Nick- Would the Walling title you're looking for be MURDER AT THE KEYHOLE? I'm staring at my hard cover copy that sits right above my computer. Haven't read...
Spoiler from here to my signature: I think the Sayers title was Unnatural Death. And I also think Sayers later admitted somewhere that it would be a very...
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh) The Franchise Affair – I have rather liked it. It is based (general idea) on Elizabeth Canning case. It is interesting...
The improbable murder method was used in Dorothy L. Sayers' Unnatural Death (1927)--six years before Wells's novel. I've read somewhere (Keating?) that the...
Yes, that's the one. Many thanks. Nick RICHARD LIEDHOLM <jandrliedholm@...> wrote: Nick- Would the Walling title you're looking for be MURDER AT THE...
Dear Adrienne, I have sent you an invitation to a Gladys Mitchell Club in Yahoo, to which both Jason & I belong (I am the founder, by the way). Although...
Could everybody please ignore my previous message--please delete without reading. Regards, Nick Fuller 'There is no past tense in the conjugation of genius,...
