I recently read in BARRON'S magazine about a case the U. S. Supreme has agreed to hear. Eric Eldred, who publishes classic books that are in the public domain...
Did anyone notice that Sharon (McCone?) from San Francisco joined our group last month? Maybe Kinsey and V. I. will be next. Welcome Sharon. This is a fun...
This may seem a minor point, but I'd like to correct a mistake in one of Xavier's posts. BLACK MASK, albeit the most well-known and well-regarded, was not the...
The following are replies to some of the comments of others, which are shown below mine. My personal candidate for Chandler's masterpiece is THE LONG GOODBYE....
I AGREE WITH YOUR OPINION OF THE LONG GOODBYE. IT IS AGREAT NOVEL. I REMEMBER THAT A FRIEND ASK ME WHAT SHOULD HE READ IN THE MYSTERY FIELD, AND I SEND HIM TO ...
Barry, you describe Chandler's Marlowe as "a romantic in a more 'realistic' world (the sordid city) than that of the country house and penthouse found in the...
No derogation was intended. I enjoy a good classical country house or penthouse mystery as much I enjoy Chandler, even if for different reasons. As a matter of...
This "country house" business is a bit of a stereotype of the GA British detective novel. Even Chandler afforded some favorable notice to more "realistic"...
BAILEY, H.C. SLIPPERY ANN [1944; Band 4:] The aim of the game, as the title suggests, is “to catch one of the men with the woman who would damn him” on a...
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I swear that I have troubles accessing Yahoo that nobody else seems to have. Has nothing to do with time or day, since it happens...
Sorry, Nick, I tried (see my message above this one). Don't have the energy now to reconstruct what I was saying. But I will put your "Death-Watch" review on...
Even though he occasionally slipped up by having Nero Wolfe employ a phrase Rex Stout's character wouldn't be likely to use, overall Robert Goldsborough did a...
It's not just you. It's Yahoo. Yahoo=the pits. (Are you eavesdropping, Mr Yahoo? If so, take the hint and clean up your act.) ... Yahoo ... day, ... then ... ...
Oh, Allingham ran the same race as Christie, but was a late finisher. Her earlier books were sheer nonsense -- Edgar Wlllace-type spy stuff and melodrama. And...
Well, why not? These are fighting words, but isn't the main appeal of mystery stories, whether inexplicable locked-room, murder at the vicarage, or sleazy...
This raises some interesting points. For example, when a 'pulp' series is continued, such as Cay Van Ash's Fu Manchu's or Coppers's Solar Pons, how can one...
I'll be more provocative than that and say that Kipling, Wells, Orwell, and Christie were the four most important English writers of the 20th Century. Ya wanna...
AND GRAHAM GREENE AND A.J. CRONIN???? ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! ...
While browsing the Internet, I came across the following web-site: Gervase Fen--The Last Great Amateur Detective (http://homepage.eircom.net/~fenpages/),...
... In my view the group has three basic roles to fulfil: 1. Alerting members to books that they might find interesting and entertaining. Speaking for myself,...
Well, I finished this one today, honestly surprised that I steamed through it. It proved an unexpectedly enjoyable read. As I mentioned in an earlier post, my...
Dear Barry & Wyatt, Margery Allingham is one of the most colourful of detective writers. The writing is amusing and stylish, while avoiding the Michael Innes...
Nice web site, but is unfinished: missing or only partial book reviews, and X's along the top where the graphics should be. ... Gervase Fen--The Last Great...
I keep trying to give Allingham the benefit of a doubt by attempting to read one of her books every now and then, but can never get more than 50 pages into...
Amen, Jon. I very much reject the idea that only a dozen or so British GA authors are worth preserving. Rhode, Lorac, the Coles, Connington, Punshon, etc....
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Douglas Greene
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Oct 5, 2002 11:38 am
One thing that a publisher quickly discovers is that the demand for a book on the used-book market has little to do with whether a reprint would be ...
