... "Along with Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler was the main proponent of the "hard-boiled" school of fictional detectives." Mmm...not really. Along with...
Half of Linda & Michael wrote... ... There are no Charlie Chan short stories; only novels. But I have my doubts about any list that includes ... 19 and 24 are...
... Mike: You're right: "There are no Charlie Chan short stories; only novels." Elley Queen writes: "We remember corresponding, back in the old 'Mystery...
... I'm hardly fluent in Spanish or Italian, but it seems to me that the English is marred in some places by being a machine translation. I don't know if the...
... Nobody's ever going to mistake Hammer for Hercule Poirot or Ellery Queen, but some of the novels have pretty complicated plots and Hammer has to do a ...
... I tend to give credit to Daly for being the first, but some pulp fans claim that a series of stories about a gambler named Don Everhard, written by Gordon...
Half of Linda & Michael wrote... ... There are no Charlie Chan short stories; only novels. But I have my doubts about any list that includes ... 19 and 24 are...
... If you only know Bond from the movies, you don't really know Bond because only a few of the films are relatively faithful to the Fleming novels....
... I've not heard of either the author or the character. This will require some investigation. (Steve Lewis, if you're reading this, can you ask Bill Pronzini...
Hi- This is Judy, co-owner of the Albert Campion group. Is this just read whatever you want group and post your comments or is there a group read too? And if...
...an all too brief review of the adventures of A. Lupin has appeared in the Classic Corner of the newly uploaded I Love A Mystery Newsletter, see ...
Mary Reed
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Jul 2, 2007 3:22 pm
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Hi- I took the poll and I never heard of ANY of the authors and I did a search at both my library's district computer catalog (meaning that the database lists...
Judy, Gutenberg and sites like Arthur's Classic Books have a *lot* of GAD works, as I found when I began collecting links for a page on our website at ...
Mary Reed
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Jul 2, 2007 3:55 pm
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... Welcome Judy :) - delighted to see you here. There are no group reads but if you are reading a GA book then I think Jon would encourage everyone to do a...
Whilst Simon Templar is not, strictly speaking, a detective, he was perfectly capable of detection. One instance that immediately springs to mind is THE MAN...
Quentin, Patrick - A Puzzle for Pilgrims (1947) aka The Fate of the Immodest Blonde 'Let's have a Mexican holiday and then write a book about it so I can claim...
One which might well benefit from another review/POV :). ... This is a rum 'un! The opening is a delight. This is Marsh at her most Allinghamesque - a curious...
I've just read Allingham's The White Cottage Mystery. It has an intro by Joyce Allingham (daughter?), which says it was Margery's first novel, originally...
We know early on in The Angel of Terror who is out to cause mayhem and why, so the question is can the responsible parties be brought to justice? For the main...
Mary Reed
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Jul 4, 2007 1:49 am
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They're spelt perfectly normally in my edition (Penguin). Carola Dunn <caroladunn@...> wrote: I've just read Allingham's The White Cottage...
A few posts back there was a discussion, more or less, about an apparent "hostility" towards detective fiction among the intelligentsia, that ever-enlarging...
GADers! Michael calls for a comment after quoting Ms McDorman's statement "romance, conjugal felicity, and the joys of parenthood were deemed digressions from ...
Mary Reed
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Jul 4, 2007 10:44 pm
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I really don't believe that the traditional detective novel has anything against "conjugal felicity" and procreation in general. You often see "love interest"...
... I have no problem with a mystery writer extending himself/herself to expand or "transcend" the supposed "limits" of the genre--some outstanding exponents...
Blackstock, Charity - Miss Fenny (1957) aka Woman in the Woods It starts so well. The decayed body of a woman is found in the woods near Braxham Parva in the...
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