Mmmm... While he surely was not a pioneering Women's Lib writer, Carr created some interesting female characters, alike Fay Seton in "He Who Whispers". His...
Hi, everyone! I wanted to share a few thoughts on some recent books I've read. A REDHEAD FOR MICHAEL SHAYNE was written by Brett Halliday in 1964. Actually,...
Dear Richard, Thank you for mentioning my review! Since then, my opinion of the book has changed: it is the most disappointing Burton I have read so far....
My point is that often people seem to think sex means more realistic treatment of character, whereas it often just leads to a different kind of stereotype....
... No, they didn't. Take a look at, for instance, the two first pages of "The King Is Dead", where there are references to "Inspector Queen's bedroom" and...
I agree that there are problems with the ending of Devil's Reckoning, but it does have some compensating qualities. Burtons often have some nice atmospheric...
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Sep 2, 2002 2:28 pm
Wyatt Stribling wrote 3 series of poggioli stories: The first, ca. 1925 - 1926 ends with Poggioli himself being hanged for murder.The stories were collected in...
Once a month, I go to Paris rifle used-book stores. Here is my latest (red?) harvest: - "The Case of Naomi Clynes" (a.k.a. "Richardson Scores Again" or...
Paris obviously has better used-book stores than New York (which had several dozen 30 years ago but practically none now). The only one of these books I've...
Ah, so 1/3 of the third series will not be collected (at least in the near future -- if they are any good anyway). Yes, I remember Dr. P's being hanged, but...
Not quite a death, but Baroness Orczy's Old Man In The Corner disappears after his final story - having been caught out as the murderer by his protégé in a...
Yes, good point about the Old Man. This is the sort of thing I'm looking for in this informal question poll. Clinton-Baddeley's Dr. Davie died when the author...
Apart from pastiches and derivatives while an author is still writing, there has always been a tendency in detective fiction for additional material after an...
Wyatt and other friends: 1. We know about "Drury Lane's Last Case", 2. William Campbell Gault, a 1950-1960s and later private eye writer, did a unique thing:...
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Douglas Greene
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Sep 3, 2002 2:25 pm
Wyatt The 3d series consisted of about 24-25 stories, of which 8 or 9 weren't included in BEST DR. POGGIOLI DETECTIVE STORIES. I am sorry that we are...
I HAD READ THAT THAT STORY WAS NOT THE FINAL ONE, THAT SHE CROTE MORE STORIES! ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
if you want the other volumes, try amazon.com or ebay.com or abebooks.com. I got the other 2 volumes that way ... ...
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Douglas Greene
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Sep 3, 2002 5:11 pm
Yes, the Old Man in the Corner continues long after being semi-found out as a murderer. These are the books in my collection: Baroness Orczy. The Case of...
... Michael Harrison with C. Auguste Dupin? Really, aside from their historical value Poe's stories aren't all that good when read nowadays - I mean, in one,...
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Douglas Greene
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Sep 3, 2002 7:41 pm
Christian All the published Dupin pastiches by Michael Harrison are collected in MURDER IN THE RUE ROYALE (the earlier EXPLOTIS OF THE CHEVALIER DUPIN is not...
Two examples come to mind: Raffles and Dupin. Raffles, created by Conan Doyle's brother-in-law E.W. Hornung, was continued by Barry Perowne. According to...
It depends what you mean by 'detective' - if you want to include pulp material like the Bulldog Drummond stories then I think there would be quite a few. Jon....
Yes, I think I mentioned Nick Carter, for example. That sort of thing is like the newspaper comic strips that get continued by somebody else because they are...
Oh, I don't mind if you don't reprint the whole opus. If Sherlock Holmes weren't sacrosanct, one could omit a lot of his stories, consign them to library stack...
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore." That's all it could say, but the result was influential however you look at it. ... other ... that good when read ... another,...
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Douglas Greene
dgreene@...
Sep 6, 2002 4:08 pm
Just a ntoe that published today is Stuart Palmer's HILDEGARDE WITHERS: UNCOLLECTED RIDDLES, with previously uncollected stories about the schoolmarm detective...
BEST NEWS OF THE DAY. Ill look for it on the mail. Have a nice weekend! ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance -...
I think there's no way a really good author can be continued by someone else. It would need a similar author and which good author would not follow his own...
