The family of writer Jenkins is temporarily out of town. On a blistering hot night he is dozing in a hammock on the fire escape when a nocturnal visitor climbs...
Mary Reed
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Aug 1, 2007 3:01 pm
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When you have a chance, peruse the chart at the page below. For you long-time readers of hardboiled as well as GAMs: Is this academician accurate? If not, ...
I'm not sure if Patricia Wentworth is considered on topic. But I love Miss Silver and just reread The Benevent Treasure (1953) and Vanishing Point (1955). They...
Did you know Christie's Miss Marple stories could be broken down into seven types? Me neither: http://www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies/Engl383/Marplestories.htm...
Here's an enthusiastic review of a book that Agatha Christie fans might not be so enthusiastic about. If you have read it (I haven't), you might want to...
Didbury Toke collects and deals in antiques and works of art. Alas, he's also a fence and not always scrupulous in his dealings with non experts. It is this...
Mary Reed
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Aug 2, 2007 3:04 am
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Carola wrote... ... Very definitely on-topic Carola :) - as I had lots and lots of problems with understanding what was on-topic here at first, till Jon...
... I'm pretty sure that we could find loads of exceptions. What about the London based detective novels of Margery Allingham. What about the Wimsey/Vane love...
... Exactly! Really the question becomes: Is it possible to characterize GA mysteries as neatly as the chart would imply? Exceptions abound everywhere, in...
Very enjoyable locked room mystery. This was my first Sir Henry Merrivale book, as well as my first by John Dickson Carr (or under the pseudonym Carter...
As soon as someone tries to limit the genre to a set of rules, I want to write something that disproves it. How about a hardboiled private eye story set in a...
Which book was it?! Don't leave us in suspense! ... Merrivale book, as well as my first by John Dickson Carr (or under the pseudonym Carter Dickson). ... ...
Curt wrote.. ... Michael answered... ... possible to characterize GA mysteries as neatly as the chart would imply? Exceptions abound everywhere, in every area...
Oh sorry, it was the first book in the series...The Plague Court Murders. Christy Britain www.geocities.com/murdermostbritish "Friends help you move;real...
On his way back from New Zealand, where he has been solving the case of Vintage Murder, Alleyn meets the artist Agatha Troy (hereafter always known as Troy) on...
Broad distinctions like these may serve an academic context, but they're nonsense in reality. We can all find cogent examples to the contrary in each category....
By, "sex," I wonder if the description of actual sex is meant, or at least the description of, say, ladies' bazooms (to use period idiom!). There certainly is...
On a sleety December night taxi-driver Spike Walters picks up a fare at Union Station. The well-dressed, veiled woman instructs Walters to drive to a poorer...
Mary Reed
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Aug 3, 2007 7:23 pm
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TCM "MYSTERIES" FOR AUGUST 2007 Some mysteries (see August 9th for the Thin Man marathon), but mostly crime dramas, with an occasional spy, pirate, or cowboy...
Those of us who would like to see more contemporary authors writing GAD fiction can take some heart from Paul Halter's inclusion in the 2007 award nominations:...
Great! Now let's see more translated into English for those of us who do not read French. Anita ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
That's great John, my congratulations, for if I'm not mistaken, you are one of the few who are working to bring Halter's writing to an American public, so this...
GADers! An exchange on the list: How about a hardboiled private eye story set in a small village? I'm game....but wouldn't that mean the last soul left...
Fletcher, JS - The Safety Pin (1924) An old man is murdered in an English town. Inspector Mellapont thinks it's a simple robbery, but others disagree, and his...
Fletcher, JS - The Safety Pin (1924) An old man is murdered in an English town. Inspector Mellapont thinks it's a simple robbery, but others disagree, and his...
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