<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Various reviews of various detective stories by sundry hands. I have...
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Various reviews of various detective stories by sundry hands. I have...
Jon L. Breen's comments before reviewing Reginald Hill's DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: "The detective story in its finest...
Dear Bill, Thank you for this review. I am planning to buy DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD this week, and I am glad to see that it ranks with the finest Golden Age...
Nick, As I guess you have discovered by now, you can't use HTML in Yahoo groups. A nuisance, since it's almost impossible to format messages otherwise, but...
In comparison with modern ones, GAD writers were very little present in their books. In the beginnings, all mystery stories were told in first-person mode. The...
Well, you are not obliged to read the Thank-you page (I always avoid them). Technically, what you call an epigraph is not that thank-you- mum and my editor and...
saturday i received THE MAMMOTH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN CRIME FICTION by MIKE ASHLEY, from Amazon, and I recomended it. It has a great list of authors (some ...
there are several books by him on amazon.com. take a look! ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial -...
Does anyone have read Helen Reilly's "The Velvet Hand"? What is it about? What does it worth? I have an old coupon from my bookseller and I'll use it to buy...
Xavier: I haven't read this particular Reilly, but I started collecting her a few months ago and have all but 6 or 7 that she's written. Everyone I have read...
Julian Symons was prodigiously open-minded in comparison with his self-designed successor, Maxim Jakubowski. A sci-fi transfuge, Jakubowski is the leader of...
What do you think of Val McDermid as a writer? I've read some of her reviews at Tangled Web, found her rather sympathetic (not as biased as other English...
Hello all-- A friend who's not terribly interested in the mystery genre, classic or contemporary, in any way told me to check out the Nero Wolfe series, as he...
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Douglas Greene
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Jul 17, 2002 5:54 pm
Maxim Jakubowski founded the first mystery bookstore in the UK, Murder One on Charing CVross in London, and many UK writers--whether cozy or hardboiled, GA or...
Wyattjames: Sorry for these sad news, but it actually seems that you have one of his anthologies on your shelves! He edited "100 Great Detectives" an anthology...
Someone should write an essay on why mystery fiction regularily is visited by totalitarian people who are obsessed with laying down their own writing rules to...
... It has? Where's it found now? (I'm going to London this autumn, so I'd like to know beforehand in order to plan my different shopping walks...) Christian...
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Douglas Greene
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Jul 17, 2002 8:32 pm
Christian: Crime in Store Store Street London WC1E 7BS Both Thalia (at Crime in Store) and Maxim (at Murder One) are good people. Doug Douglas G. Greene ...
... Thanks a lot, Doug! I do remember the people working in these shops (I've been there a couple of times before) as being very eager to help and very...
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Douglas Greene
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Jul 17, 2002 9:01 pm
Christian The address I gave is incomplete--32 Store Street. Gived both Maxim and Thalia my regards when you see them. Doug Douglas G. Greene Professor of...
... I'll certainly do that - if I can see who's who there! Do they have name tags? :) Christian Henriksson (christianhenriksson@...) -- The human race,...
Dear Mr. Greene, My charge on Jakubowski undoubtedly was a little unilateral. His off-critical work actually deserves praise. Furthermore, ideas he expresses...
I've been a little disappointed to see this year's Grandmaster award going to Robert B. Parker. It's not that I have something against him, although I agree...
Ah, I remember that bookstore (which is no longer there, but I don't think Foyle's is either any more). Gentrification has driven most of the bookstores away...
Yes, you're right, but he only edited it. The entries were written by established mystery authors, describing OTHER established mystery detectives of their own...
SF: well, John W. Campbell as a science-fiction editor had some very strong prejudices and rejected a lot of works that later became classics from his...
John Mortimer, hands down. And with a new Rumpole on the way, the timing couldn't be better! Richard ... From: Xavier Lechard Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002...
