I'm going to be signing The Bloody Tower (England 1925), an IMBA bestseller, at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego on Friday Nov 2nd at 7. Would be happy to see...
Broadway beauty Margaret Odell, dubbed The Canary after her rise to fame playing that yellow avian at the Follies, is found murdered in her flat. The only way...
Mary Reed
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Nov 1, 2007 11:25 pm
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Hi GAdetection, Your friend, Xavier Lechard, has recommended this article entitled 'Book of Hours' to you. Here is his/her remarks: N/A Book of Hours Posted By...
Who Didn't Do It? Posted By Jem Bloomfeld On July 31, 2007 @ 12:23 pm In Mystery, Essays | No Comments The whodunnit is, amongst other things, a novel about...
Jon Bloomfield's essays are interesting and well written. But his view that British GA fiction simply set forth a pastoral fantasy version of rural England has...
In "My Autobiography", Mary Roberts Rinehart tells how she interrupted the rehearsal of her mystery play "The Bat" (1920) (destined to be an enormous hit)....
Our Genre Has No Clothes This is a long one. As noted in my previous post, it arose partly out of Steve's comments on Sandra's site, and partly out of things...
More from Robin W. Winks's DETECTIVE FICTION: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS (1980). ********************************* PART TWO: "A History of the Type" 6....
... This, of course, should read as follows: "It is FORTUNATE for the mystery-monger that, whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting...
GAders! I have to say I find the article unconvincing. Do the opinions of us hoi polloi not count? We must have some relaxation after a hard day wielding...
Mary Reed
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Nov 3, 2007 2:36 am
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A little late in responding to this post, but to confirm what Curt and Mike B said. The Martineau Murders was his last book published in 1953. I have a Crime...
"One does not have to be a full-blown Marxist to realise that the classic whodunnit exercises a kind of moral paternalism over the working classes by keeping...
I know, Mike G., and if they had done the latter more, people would be criticizing them for portraying poorer people as criminals! You can't win with these...
There have been insane and sympathetic murderers within the genre in the GA. And I get tired of the "Mayhem Parva" stereotype. Readers considered the country...
I'm betting his notion of Miss Lemon is drawn mostly from the TV series? By the way, I wonder what Jem would think of the argument that I believe P. D. James...
What many critical readers overlook from the 'classic' mysteries of Christie is that while she sets many stories in enclosed situations (the family manor, the...
... relaxation ... I think John Rickards' diagnosis - that most of contemporary crime writing is formulaic, pandering to dusty conventions while at the same ...
Curt wrote: <<By the way, I wonder what Jem would think of the argument that I believe P. D. James made a few years ago, that British mystery novels have...
You can find these currently at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/ Jon. The Mind of Mr J G Reeder New to BBC 7. A series of four enthralling mysteries by...
For those of you in the U.S. who have access to Turner Classic Movies on cable, this is a particularly good week for mystery films. There's a Whistler marathon...
It seems to me as if many of the critics of mystery fiction (especially recently) are those who don't seem to like the genre in the first place, and all they...
... (especially recently) are those who don't seem to like the genre in the first place, and all they do is go out of their way to nitpick. While the essay...
Xavier Lechard spotted this on the The Observer site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the The Observer site, go to...
Mike, if you are thinking of present day writers Ruth Dudley Edwards' work is often outspoken indeed on matters political as well as with regard to that...
Mary Reed
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Nov 5, 2007 7:41 pm
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Evening Standard Detective Book (1950) How pleasant -- and how rare -- to find a book which calls itself an anthology of detective stories and actually is one....
Readers must have been surprised to learn Philo Vance bred Scottish terriers, but it was as well for the forces of law and order he did, for it was this...
Mary Reed
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Nov 5, 2007 8:42 pm
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Depending on how you define "political," Stephen Greenleaf took on some issues in his John Marshall Tanner novels....
A lot of critics do make a big issue out of the increasing social diversity of the genre. Here's one book on the subject: CHAPTER 8: Diversifying the...
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