I read Greenmantle very early in youth and didn't have much idea of what was really going on, but I always remembered it as the essence of mystery and romance,...
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vegetableduck
Aug 22, 2007 4:51 am
Who killed the wealthy widow with the fatal propensity to hold on to her money instead of handing it out to impecunious relatives? The pampered cat,...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 22, 2007 6:01 am
Langham, James R - Sing a Song of Murder (1942) aka Sing a Song of Homicide Samuel G. Abbott is our narrator, an ex-pug, gun expert and investigator for the...
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vegetableduck
Aug 22, 2007 6:28 am
I've seen some records indicating that this GA mystery author is an American, but that doesn't make sense to me. All his books seem to be set in UK and there...
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Ronaldo
ref4ust
Aug 22, 2007 12:38 pm
Hi Here is the next in my perusal through the 1930's Burtons: Review - Miles Burton 'Death in the Tunnel' Although occasionally erratic in the quality of his...
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mr.molesack
Aug 22, 2007 6:45 pm
It is a splendid book. Although they tend to be lumped together with a sort of two-fisted Boy's Own type of adventure, Buchan's thrillers are really quite...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Aug 22, 2007 11:39 pm
Mr Molesack rightly observes re Buchan that "A lot of his tales have an odd, dream-like (even nightmarish) quality". Agreed! In Greenmantle there's that...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Aug 23, 2007 5:54 pm
This collection of stories appeared in the early l890s and features Miss Loveday Brooke, who works for Ebenezer Dyer, head of a detective agency in Lynch...
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finsbry@...
finsbry
Aug 23, 2007 10:07 pm
... I've read a couple of Francis D. Grierson books-The Mad Hatter Murder being one, and I assumed he was English. The Hatter title was very difficult to ...
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vegetableduck
Aug 23, 2007 11:24 pm
Thanks, Diana, I think his father may have been a British railway engineer, but can not nail down as certain. What did you think of him? I gather he was more...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Aug 24, 2007 12:19 am
William Brenton comes back from death's undiscover'd country, the bourne or destination from which no traveller returns -- at least according to Hamlet -- in...
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Carola Dunn
caroladunn
Aug 24, 2007 1:52 am
I sent that message about Greenmantle on the 17th--it just turned up today. Is Yahoo screwing up (again)? Carola www.geocities.com/CarolaDunn/ Daisy Dalrymple...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 24, 2007 1:53 am
There is what appears to be a complete Grierson bibliography at http://www.xs4all.nl/~embden11/Engels6/grierson.htm . Nothing definite on his nationality,...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 24, 2007 1:58 am
Arthur Upfield has been retired and we have a new mystery host - a rather attractive young lady. Jon....
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 24, 2007 2:03 am
Hi Carola, For some reason your messages are being tagged by Yahoo as spam. That means I have to clear them individually, but I only find out that they're...
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linia_my
Aug 24, 2007 3:55 am
This is the easy one. Helen Mccloy....
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finsbry@...
finsbry
Aug 24, 2007 4:13 pm
... I enjoyed both of the titles I read. Not great literature, but fun. I didn't think of the 2 titles I read as thrillers, especially the Mad Hatter Murder, ...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 25, 2007 12:21 am
Correct! I'll leave her up for a few days, though, as good-looking mystery writers are so few and far between... ;-) Jon....
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Barry Ergang
b_ergang
Aug 25, 2007 9:19 pm
If you haven't already seen it, check out "Fracture"; starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. It's an inverted detective story that contains a seemingly...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Aug 26, 2007 12:52 am
Having recently reread Greenmantle, I'm now rereading some of the other Hannay novels. While some will certainly disagree, I view The Three Hostages as a...
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mr.molesack
Aug 26, 2007 11:03 am
There is far less physical action than in some of the other, and Hannay is put into the position of having to cogitate rather more than usual. Mary is an...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 28, 2007 8:28 pm
Knox, Ronald - The Footsteps at the Lock (1928) Two young cousins go for a canoe trip on the upper reaches of the Thames, staying at inns on the way. Derek...
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Bob Schneider
speedymystery
Aug 29, 2007 1:33 am
I am probably the last person in this group to have read this iconic crime story written by this iconic mystery writer but here is my review anyway: A New York...
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Anita Hoffman
anita7746
Aug 29, 2007 2:15 am
I always considered Woolrich a crime novelist, and the one novel I have by him I consider American Noir. I haven't read the story you are reviewing, but have...
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Michael E. Grost
nzkpzq
Aug 30, 2007 6:20 pm
Woolrich wrote both thrillers without mystery, and real detective stories - including Phantom Lady. Many of the short story genuine mysteries are superb. These...
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Wendy Hess
liseuse_wh
Aug 30, 2007 6:35 pm
Just FYI: The Vintage Mystery group will be reading "Phantom Lady" by Cornell Woolrich/William Irish in September: ...
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RICHARD LIEDHOLM
richardliedholm
Aug 30, 2007 8:59 pm
Bob- Woolrich relies on coincidence a lot in his books but I have never, ever found them far-fetched, especially in this geniune classic. Phantom Lady ranks...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 31, 2007 10:56 pm
Kitchin, CHB - Crime at Christmas (1934) Malcolm Warren is back -- not a suspect this time, as in Death of My Aunt, but as a bystander and discoverer of...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Aug 31, 2007 11:34 pm
Derleth, August - The Casebook of Solar Pons (1965) What are we to make of Solar Pons, the ersatz Sherlock Holmes? Should a conscientious critic deplore this...
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Mary Reed
maywrite@...
Sep 1, 2007 1:00 am
GADers! Jon, not having read the Pons work you review -- yet! -- what I would like to know is are the Whispering Knights those connected with the stone circle...
