Three or four years ago WGBH and a UK production company signed an agreement to produce JOHN DICKSON CARR: THE SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERIES. Sadly, the idea...
Silly point, but how do I put a 'signature' or quotation at the bottom of these messages? A lot of you have them, but I can't find an area on Yahoo where you...
Well, I suppose it was bound to happen sometime. I have posted many positive reviews of late, especially with the fiction of John Rhode/Miles Burton. I guess...
I think that Peppard died a couple of years ago. I certainly miss him, as he was a fine actor and his low-key charisma was perfect for BANACEK. As to the...
Friends, This may sound funny but I see HM vividly whenever I watch Minnessota Governor Jesse (the Body) Ventura on TV! Enrique F. Bird Picó Business: ...
For those who might be interested, the current issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD includes an article in our subject realm by yours truly, titled "The Bourgeois...
I hope everyone had a very happy new year, and it is filled with much hope and promise. I'm going to be travelling in February... first to Atlanta and then to...
Sorry to the group for this personal message, but I tried to reach Enrique using his personal e-mail and it was bounced back. Enrique, as Richard so graciously...
Does anyone have a copy of the 1936 original Doubleday, Doran publication of Margery Allingham's FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE? I need to know whether it carried the...
Anyone who is described as a contemporary Michael Innes is worth looking into. There are a few Garve books on e-bay... are any of them worth bidding on for a...
One of the joys about reading Golden Age Detective Fiction is discovering new authors and 'new' series from authors you have already tried. This joy I mention...
This is my annual plea for blurbs and jacket copies or descriptions so that I might complete the supplement to Ellen Nehr's DOUBLEDAY CRIME CLUB COMPENDIUM...
This is new, and intrusive. When you log on to Yahoo Groups now and click on a message you get a full-screen ad, with a little hot link below it to actually...
Years ago copyright piracy was often a repugnant and exploitive act. That was when the copyright protection timeframe was relatively short and an author could...
Wyatt >(much like Crippen and Landru, except that you stick mainly to still-living authors -- or recently living, since I was very sad to hear about the...
Can anybody supply me with information about this book (author, for example)? Lost my copy a long time ago, but remember being very impressed 30 years ago by...
The Ka of Gifford Hillary...by Dennis Wheatley -- A hack writer of the 1940s-50s, famous for the great horror novel The Devil Rides Out. This is really an...
Friends, I recently acquired the complete Erler Stanley Gardner hardcover set, in the 2 per volume edition which was printed in the 1970s. A dream come true;...
Thanks for remembering me, Christian. It's been hectic in South Florida.... I got busy at work, having trouble with my allergies, trying to get ready for...
A recently published anthology, edited by Jeffery Deaver, is A CENTURY OF GREAT SUSPENSE STORIES. The authors included in the anthology, which might better be...
I've extracted this from my web site. It is at least five years old, but I still hold by it for the most part. The idea, absurd as it is, is based on the old...
I pointed out in a reply to the Andrew Garve message that I had thrown out (or sent to the Salvation Army or something -- because I would never toss a book in...
Just found out that Andrew Garve died earlier this year. Strictly speaking, he is not really Golden Age, but note the Times obit: "Eventually the traditional...
Hi Richard and Everyone: I am reading all the posts when I have time, but not reading anything else. My mind will not digest anything at the moment. After...
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, here it is! The creme de la creme. The TOP 25 novels on my list of favorites. Many, I suspect, would be on your tops list too....
This is an ancillary subject, but this Group does not show up on my regular Yahoo page -- I have to go to Nicholas Fuller's site to get onto it. Does anybody...
Hello again! I had trouble sending part 1 of my favorites list on Saturday but now it looks like you received it. I wrote this first part of Saturday...
Is Golden Age Detective fiction entertainment for the entire family? This question came to mind recently in two separate incidents that I thought that I'd...
Anita - Sam With no further reply from from Rogers's son, there's no rush in getting the stories to C&L, but we would oike to read through them eventually to ...
