On the Criminal Brief blog, Steven Steinbock references a faultline in mystery/detective story writing that has been a commonplace for eight or nine decades;...
I'd love to read the actual Penzler article, but the New York Sun archive doesn't seem to extend back that far. Seems to me it continues the traditional male...
Hitchcock films predominate on the 6th, Mildred gets fierce on the 8th, a 'toon gets framed on the 9th, and Agatha Christie gets the deluxe treatment on the...
I hope that my Criminal Brief column didn't give anyone the wrong impression. No one should be drawing up the battle lines. The Mystery/Crime genre is a big...
In a message dated 2/1/2008 1:08:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, stevo1@... writes: I hope that my Criminal Brief column didn't give anyone the wrong ...
I'd like to think that my two series, set in Liverpool and the Lake District respectively, are traditional mysteries updated to reflect contemporary society....
I didn't read much this past month...I don't really know why. Most of what I read was for group reads. Looking forward to doing more reading in February. ...
Christy Britain "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to Sabbath-breaking, ...
Hi, Steve, my comments were just in reference to the Penzler article. It seemed from the excepts gven to go out of its way to set up this battle of the sexes...
... Presumably they are also not hardboiled (like eggs) and then set under the tea cosy to keep warm? These quarrels about definitions remind me of the title...
In the light of Microsoft's bid for Yahoo let me remind group members of what to do if Yahoo should suddenly go under without warning: 1) Check the Wiki at...
The latest issue of Geoff Bradley's magazine CADS reveals a new pseudonym for Philip Macdonald! Er, revealed by me ... ... From: RICHARD LIEDHOLM To:...
I have it on very good authority that, prior to the casting of the appalling Geraldine McEwan, serious consideration was being given to relocating Miss Marple...
There's an even more recent article by Tony in the new issue of CADS, which I received today. It's about a series of newspaper 'solutions' by authors...
Terminology of mystery fiction has become a morass. I tend to avoid using words like "traditional", or "cozy" to describe mysteries - because they are not...
Good day, This was posted on the Murder Most Cozy list: An FYI. Pat H. DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES OF MYSTERIES-HARPER COLLINS (their exp books are published by...
It would seem to me that a "cozy" would be a book where the main interest lies in something other than detection, some quality that gives readers a "cozy"...
Lament for a Maker, Michael Innes' 3rd mystery, was published in 1938. The edition I got from the library has an intro by Michael Gilbert, in which he appears...
... under the tea cosy to keep warm?>> no no no we have egg-cosies for that. Carola www.geocities.com/CarolaDunn/ Daisy Dalrymple mysteries-England 1920s-IMBA...
The news that they wanted to relocate and drastically alter Marple makes my blood boil then chill in turn. It explains why they took so many liberties with...
In a message dated 02/02/2008 10:14:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Whew! That was a close one. I'm glad saner minds prevailed. [Non-text portions of this...
Orient Express - The mother poisoned the victim before the shenanigans started ... Ackroyd - Japp, because he had to persuade Poirot out of retirement or risk...
![Upfield, Arthur] - The Bachelors of Broken Hill (1950) This is about as close to a police procedural as the Upfield books ever get. Bony is called in on a...
![Upfield, Arthur] - The Bachelors of Broken Hill (1950) This is about as close to a police procedural as the Upfield books ever get. Bony is called in on a...
They started showing the new series on Australian television last night. I thought Nemesis was pretty good, although more "suggested by Agatha Christie's...
Was Speedy Death the only Bradley they didn't radically change (though apparently she sleeps with her chauffeur now!)? Curt ... night. I thought Nemesis was...
... I think the changes they made to Mrs Bradley made them easier to produce and made Adela Bradley infinitely more likeable. As an aside, I've just updated my...
In GAdetection@yahoogroups.com, Jon Jermey <jonjermey@...> wrote: Trivia: Bony quotes J.I.M Stewart's (Michael Innes') book 'Character and Motive in...
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