"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." The quote is from Samuel Johnson and I don't really think that he believed it either. Anyone who writes...
Welcome to the blogosphere, Arun! ;) My detective-related resolutions for 2012 are quite simple: 1) explore the impossible crime sub-genre even further with...
I'm not telling this to brag, but when I first read the book, I knew what had to have happened (trying not to give spoilers here) based on the cluing in the...
How fun. I believe that Queen's collection of short story anthologies is at the HRC at the University of Texas. If for some reason, you cannot get a particular...
I will continue to read (if possible) all the wonderfull sugestions that the group has on GA mysteries, read the C&L books in my subscription, and reread the...
Yes, Jeff, how dare he call you names! I saw the Albert Finney film first so never had a shot at deducing the book. The film totally fooled me, though I was...
I'd love to read Cobb's whole letter. The part quoted does sound distressingly banal. And the truth is I think Cobb's earlier books contribute somethign...
GADers A Happy New Year to you all! Are you aware of any publishing ventures in the UK like the Harper Sealed Mysteries in the US? Or can you point me in the...
... My opinion exactly, Curt, and I suspect that Chandler dismissed the book based on style rather than on content. Besides, I never understood why hardboiled...
Totally agree -- nobody is going to be very entertained by a short story about me going to the grocery store and buying a quart of milk and a loaf of bread....
No, I'll not be going after all 125 of them. I've just read 12 so far. At the end of the year, I will be very happy if I'm able to take that figure to 40 out...
I know what Chandler means, of course. Letting more explicit sex and violence into the mystery, for example, simply is letting in part of reality. But...
I enjoy Chandler most when he is least pretentious-- when he realizes his stories are no more realistic than Christie's and just goes with it. Also it helps...
Hello everyone! I've returned from my vacation and realized that not all the articles I wrote on my blog were published as scheduled. I've fixed this and for...
... Well, there's been a Superman musical & there's the Spider-Man musical, so that should give you some idea . (Shudder!) Have there been any musicals based...
Happy New Year, one and all! Mike sez: << 'Sherlock Holmes Volume 1' (which I don't own at the moment) seems to be an original self-contained and complete...
Patrick - You probably still had your posts stuck in the "Drafts" section instead of the "Scheduled" section. You need to set the future date and time and then...
Curt - Let's not forget one other important component that might have figured into Chandler's thinking: money. Hardboiled stories had lapped classic detective...
Musicals based on mystery writer's work or an existing book: THE WOMAN IN WHITE - Andrew Lloyd Webber's attempt to translate Collin's masterpiece to the stage....
  I certainly agree that Chandler is no more realistic than Christie in that all books are works of sustained artistic imagination. His are simply a...
Well, I have now read the final installment of the Alexander and Norma Gold series, THE GOLD GAMBLE, which is set against the production of the musical GUYS...
Mike Tooney wrote: "For Chandler -- and for too many today -- the idea of a peaceful coexistence between hardboiled and GAD seemed somehow unthinkable. They...
I think it's worth noting that Val McDermid is an admirer of Christie - in fact, she says it was reading her first Miss Marple novel that convinced McDermid...
Wow, in looking at the list again, I've only read about 20 of the titles. I would have thought it more! Apparently I have some reading to do as well. Jeff ...
