Experiment in Crime (proper title Nothing but the Truth) is widely supposed to be one of Rhode's worst books. Walling is a much-maligned author; while he...
TCOT SECOND CHANCE is quite a mediocre one. Bush's books are startlingly symptomatic of the decline of the Golden Age detective story: instead of the ...
Some time ago I read Nancy Barr Mavity's "The Tule Marsh Murder" (1928-1929). The book is full of Freudian psychology - one of my aversions. Thought it was ...
I read 'Sidetracked' a couple of months back and have borrowed 'One Step Behind' but not yet read it. 'Sidetracked' is a very well written procedural with a...
... Cecil ... bibliography ... to 1960. Most ... England. He does ... mail ... date. ... disappeared from ... Gregg has a brief notice in Jacques Baudou's and...
Interesting English-speaking website on Swedish mysteries, sadly focused on contemporary authors and marred by "mystery correctness". I am curious to know what...
Keith Miles on John Creasey Kings and Queens of Crime Essays on major Crime Writers Keith Miles on John Creasey (1908-73) Having read only a hundred of John...
Mike- If you paid a dollar for Rhode's Experiment in Crime you paid too much. I read (and actually finished) Experiment about eight years ago and I cannot...
Mike, As always, mostly right on the mark and thought provoking. I also note the prominence of Jon L. Breen and Marcia Muller/Bill Pronzini. Well deserved...
... I agree with you. Too much focus on contemporary authors. At least the editor says so in her editorial as well. From the authors mentioned, I think Håkan...
Last night on the "When Radio Was" program, they featured a show called Murder By Experts. It was hosted and narrated by John Dickson Carr. Can`t remenber...
Thanks for the kind words about the list of Best Detective Short Stories! I agree with the admiration expressed for Marcia Muller's "The Broken Men" (1985). If...
Nick Fuller writes: I've heard worrying things about the first episode of THE NINE TAILORS, though; what did you think? I last saw these shows around 1975 -...
One of our local AM stations gets the show you mention. I'll have to watch for when it is run. I listened to another Sam Spade story with Howard Duff....
Thanks for the warnings on Experiment In Crime. That one will go in my pile of books to not bother to read. Got a phone call from the Book Fair this morning...
Henning Mankell -- Firewall Some of his books are available in the US as trade paperbacks, so I picked this one up. A suberb thriller as it turned out. It is a...
This reminds me of a real-life Race Williams, who has now thankfully gone to oblivion -- he really did fancy himself as that sort of character, and if he came...
PS. To hook this with the GAD era, wasn't Raffles just as incompetent as G. Gordon Liddy? For some reason GAD detective stories normally show the cops as...
Cornell Woolrich/William Irish is always a lot of fun to read...and read about. ; mike5568 <mike5568@...> wrote: Thanks for the warnings on Experiment In...
CUE FOR MURDER is one of Helen McCloy's finest books -- chosen by Anthony Boucher for one of his Great Mystery series. I have been trying to get someone to...
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I read it, but couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Fairly badly written (veers between flatness and ham); a rather preposterous plot, with nothing to...
Crime at Guildford is fairly average for Crofts: the plot is clever, but the execution is fairly poor--the reader is simply handed the solution on a plate,...
... badly written (veers between flatness and ham); a rather preposterous plot, with nothing to engage the reader; little characterisation; and not much...
My favorite Hammett works are the Continental Op short stories. They are found in the collections "The Big Knockover", "The Continental Op", the recent omnibus...
... in ... for ... My own reading of Helen McCloy was heavily damaged by an awful translation I assume to be an abridged one. How long is your copy? A good...
Nick All I can say is "opinions differ." THE MALTESE FALCON is, to my mind, an extraordinary work. As a fairplay detective novel it works very well--we get...
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Hello, Doug - I too questioned Nick Fuller's approach to The Maltese Falcon - with a certain astonishment. But you seemed to have expressed my own opinion of...
