Recently released are the BBC productions of Dorothy L. Sayers's STRONG POISON, HAVE HIS CARCASE, and GAUDY NIGHT. These are the ones with Edward Pretherbridge...
Greetings I have joined this club a while ago ( Hi Wyatt and Nick), but with many clubs and not much to say, I have been silent. However, at this point I have...
I am now convinced that Reginald Hill is the best mystery novelist now writing in the Golden Age tradition. As a plot technician, he is without equal...
Hi Chrisitan: Just checked your website to see if you had any listing for the above author, and you didn't. Any future plans to include Coxe on the site? I'll...
Dear Wyatt, Yes, Reginald Hill is absolutely superb. The only (post) W.W.II writers I can think of to rival him are Christianna Brand and Michael Gilbert. He...
... Well, I don't see why not. If things go according to plan, I'll be having a little extra free time in July and might be adding new authors to the site....
Dear Wyatt & Nick--- I'm glad to read your thoughts on Reginald Hill; I look forward to reading some of the titles you mention. I just read the first Dalziel &...
Reviews of various Agatha Christie novels:THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE (1930; 4/5): An entertaining detective story, relying heavily upon village life. Miss...
What little I can contribute about Jacques Futrelle (apart from the well-known fact that he went down on the Titanic), is that he was born in the state of...
If you are compulsive (as I am) you really should read all Hill's books in order, although he didn't become 'great' until he'd done five or six. You might also...
Dear Wyatt-- The mortality of his detective--which I first learned from your site, by the way--was exactly the reason why I thought I'd give Freeling's books a...
Do you fellows know of contemporary american writers whose works follow the Golden Age tradition? Nicholas Freeling! So many years since I read his novels....
I know it's completely off-topic, since he's not GAD at all, but I'd like to tell all the bad things I think about Elmore Leonard. "Dutch", as his fans call...
If you're holding to the strict Golden Age apparatus, i.e. England, country houses, you should try Elizabeth George or Martha Grimes. Both are pure American...
Just an aside, but supposedly messages on the forum that you have read are supposed to turn 'blue' as opposed to the ones that are new, which are 'red'. So how...
You are emphasizing my point. The character GREW with his experiences. Hence became more and more interesting. So to kill him off was cruel to the reading fans...
PS. You might want to read one of his earlier books, "The Dresden Green", which is a nice crime novel that is really ruined by his clever alternate ending...
Oh, puh-leeze, don't mention Elizabeth George or Martha Grimes on this site! They write hugely verbose books with ridiculous main characters constantly...
Dear Wyatt-- Points noted; perhaps it is "cruel" and "self-destructive" for an author to eliminate a humane character; it's also in keeping with the tone of...
Good observation. The Leonard books are not worth the effort to read them, except I must say his ear for dialogue within a limited sense is very amusing (maybe...
I have to agree about Grimes - George I have mercifully avoided. I've written before about the gradual inflation in length of detective shows on TV - from...
Hi, everyone! Our very own Anita Hoffman is celebrating a birthday today! I would like to forthwith send all my best wishes! May Anita always be treated like...
Hi fellow mystery fans...having seen Gladys Mitchell's name on here several times, I decided to try one of her books. I'm reading THE DEATH-CAP DANCERS (the...
Richard: That was incredibly sweet, but also incredibly embarrassing. Your poem ws adorable... I can't for the life of me get anything to rhythm. Anita Hi,...
Happy birthday, Anita. SamK ... Richard: That was incredibly sweet, but also incredibly embarrassing. Your poem ws adorable... I can't for the life of me get...
Hello-- If you're new to Gladys Mitchell, I suggest you check my website devoted to her works at www.gladysmitchell.com Nicholas Fuller also has an excellent...
... and hopes for many more to come. Congratulations! Christian Henriksson (christianhenriksson@...) -- The human race, to which so many of my readers...
Ah, a convert! I'm very glad to hear you're enjoying Mitchell--she's an acquired taste, but, like most acquired tastes, a highly addictive one! (The ...
Happy birthday, Anita. Best regards, Nick ===== 'There is no past tense in the conjugation of genius, especially when it has left us whatever of itself can be...
