Well, folks, the October edition of the web site has now been uploaded. As well as reviews of Agatha Christie, Lee Jackson and Lindsey Davis there is another...
... Congratulations, and (looking at the rest of the site) maybe he can get you a big fat advance for a screenplay or two. Though I must say, when you mention...
I have to record my appreciation to John Pugmire for his message of 24 September 2007 on this subject and for the wonderful article and illustrated list made...
Alastair McLean said: This brings me to the one piece of additional information known to me, ie. that 'L' Ingenieur aimait trop les chiffres...' by Boileau and...
First of all, thank you for your kind words about the article, which I shall pass on to Steve Lewis and Roland Lacourbe who organized the exercise. I was most...
The US copyright office has been persuaded to release its historical copyright records for free, which should make it easier for potential publishers to...
John Pugmire asks whether there is any attribution to 'Boileau & Narcejac' as the authors of 'The Tube' in the Hamish Hamilton translated edition of 'L'...
It was a silly mistake on my part: I didn't read your message carefully enough. It was a very helpful point however and I did appreciate your comments. John...
Richard, Barzun and Taylor damn Wentworth with that dread word in the Catalog of Crime "feminine"! I have to admit never having gotten around to reading a...
This tale takes place after Bobby Owen switches from policing London to policing rural Wychshire. It offers a highly traidtional puzzle with a returned...
I seemed to have missed all these Wentowrth messages from summer. Do you have any non-Miss Silvers you recommend, Jett? Are those all thrillers? Is Miss...
Has anyone read anything by this author? He was a thriller writer from the twenties and early thirties, seems also to have written about Asian travels. Curt...
Customarily presented as a member of the Iles School of crime writers, which is fair enough based on his fame for The Murder of My Aunt, it seems like some of...
Friends, I have always thought that Hull's "My Own Murderer" is the definite masterpice of the Iles' school, not "Before the Fact" or "The Murder of My Aunt"....
... Last year I read his "The Phantom Tourer" which concerns the hit-and- run death of a professor of psychic phenomena along a supposedly haunted road. I...
I read the messages about Danger Next Door with interest because I recenty found an old library copy of the book I thought I had mislaid. I am surprised that...
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Mary Reed
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Oct 7, 2007 5:56 pm
It has been about l2 years since Tobias Greene died and under his will, if his children do not continue to live in the family mansion for 25 years after his...
Book: THE SPOTTED CAT (2002) Christianna Brand's Inspector Cockrill appeared in almost a score of novels, short stories, and even a play, most of which were...
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Mary Reed
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Oct 8, 2007 1:18 am
The Bishop Murder Case is a mystery that grabs the reader by the lapels and drags them into the story, for it's hard to resist narrator Van's statement the...
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Mary Reed
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Oct 8, 2007 1:28 am
If only Sir Charles Abingdon had confided in Paul Harley right away instead of deciding to reveal the full extent of his fears over dinner the following ...
I`m glad to see Richard Hull`s name come up here because I have long felt he is the most under appreciated GAD writer. Murder Of My Aunt and Keep It Quiet are...
Mike, I listed a copy of Invitation to an Inquest a few years ago and sold it for over $100, so maybe there is hope! It had the dust jacket, however. I agree...
Dear Tony and Alastair, how extraordinarily kind of you both! Tony, thanks but I don't think you need make the trip on my behalf. The point was really to see...
... Usually in this group when someone brings up MURDER OF MY AUNT I come back with "And I liked THE MURDER OF HIS UNCLE, too!" But I won't be confusing...
Mike, a few more similar titles: Christopher St. John Sprigg, Fatality in Fleet Street (1933) R. C. Woodthorpe, A Dagger in Fleet Street (1934) E. R. Punshon,...
... Or you could just take my word for it, since I've read "Danger Next Door" and already written two posts where I assured you that it's a separate book from...
Thank you, Christian Henriksson, for your posts, which I did not see during my recent bout with ill health. I'm sorry if I have slighted you in some way as...
Is there any relation between Christianna Brand (born Mary Christianna Milne exactly one years ago this December) and Alan Alexander Milne (aka A.A.)?...
