Well there has to be somebody then who disagrees. It is very fashionable these days to complain about governments,the EU particularly,how better things were in...
The new EU Constitution, which Tony Blair just signed, is some 300 pages of fine print. The British will be having a referendum in 2006 as to whether to...
Brown is a wonderful writer of both detective and science fiction. Too bad he's out of print for the most part and used versions of his books so expensive (not...
... 2006 ... and ... I didn't only refer to that bloody Union but to a general state of mind when I said the English syndrom was actually an European one. The...
Along with an article that's scheduled to appear in the next issue of Mystery*File, I'm working on a bibliography for Jonathan Latimer. In the FictionMags...
... From: grobius@... To: GAdetection@yahoogroups.com ... Dennis McMillan published quite a few volumes of his short work (19, I think). Monte Herridge...
... As a Latimer fan who's never heard of QUEEN'S RANSOM, your post intrigued me. I did a Google search--which you no doubt did yourself- -but came up empty....
See http://ebooks.nypl.org for details. As far as I can tell the scheme is open to anyone, but non-NY residents pay $US100 per year. There are 188 ebooks...
For anyone whose interested, my website (www.criminal-history.co.uk) has been recently updated, with additional links and (another) message board. Oh ... and...
... Good article, but I don't recall the Hardy Boys' mother figuring in any of the books, and I read the originals: my mother bought me THE TOWER TREASURE and...
For those of you who might be interested, Applewood Books has reprinted the first dozen or so of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books in original facsimile...
Golden agers (and those of you not as old as the rest of us, should look for the latest issue of EQMM (January) for two excellent articles on Manfred Lee -- by...
I hope my listmates will forgive a slightly "commercial message," which I'll be putting on some other lists many here belong to, but I wanted to let everyone...
Thanks for the plug, Bill. The year 2005 marks the centenary of the birth of the Ellery Queen team, and there will be special articles in issues of EQMM...
Since Inspector Queen was finally retired from the police force by the time of INSPECTOR QUEEN'S OWN CASE in the 1950s at the mandatory age of retirement, how...
Am looking forward very much to the Ellery Queen Celebration articles in EQMM. Hope there are some EQ pastiches coming up, too, in 2005 (hint, hint!). Ellery...
Am really sorry to hear of the end of Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine. The natural length of the mystery is the short story or novella, IMHO. It allows one...
That's what I recall too, Barry. "Aunt Gertrude" even made the television transition when The Hardy Boys first appeared (on The Mickey Mouse Club). ; ... Good...
I read "Dissolution" (the author's name is C.J.Sansom) while rain-bound on my recent trip to England. It is quite good as a historical mystery, and got good...
PS. That's why Eco's "Name of the Rose" is such a classic. If you want a background full of period attitudes, all those heresies etc. that are so meaningless...
Mike Grost & Doug Greene might be interested in this. While attending the NY Book Festival this year and two years ago I got a similar response from two...
There are other puzzles here, about reader attitudes. Apparently single author books of short stories were not especially popular in the 1930's, either. What...
... tales. Many ... plot as a ... tales, you ... rich with ... short - more ... be 150 pages ... real plot. By ... Quite true, but the problem is that modern...
... I haven't read it yet, but it's been topping French lists for months. Is it really THAT bad? Friends of mine rank it from average to great. Friendly, ...
You are so right. A short story is not usually satisfying except in rare cases like "The Nine Mile Walk" or "Who Killed Baker?" because they usually are based...
I have to say that "The Da Vinci Code" was a good read. It moves fast as a thriller, has lots of twists and turns. Very much like the early James Bond books....
Taking another tack on this topic, I'd like to mention that from the standpoint of pure craftmanship, short stories are harder to write than novels. (The...
It has been many years since I read Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys, but my recollection is that, while there may have been an Aunt Gertrude (I remember her only ...
