I am sorry to hear about your illness Wyatt,but at least the prognosis is good and I wholeheartedly wish you a complete recovery! If you mail me your adress I...
Bob Adey told me today that Jack Adrian never had Talbot's third novel and referred me to 'Murder Impossible' (Carroll & Graf 1990) edited by himself and Jack...
Loise Welsh "The Cutting Room" -- set in Glasgow, with the 'detective' being the gay auctioneer Rilke, involving 'Snuff' photos. Nasty, but gripping and...
"A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000...
Just a quick message to group members to let y'all know that the May edition of Criminal History (www.criminal-history.co.uk) has been uploaded. Comments and...
I knew the list was a little tamer than usual, and couldn't lay my finger on why... you were missing. I wish you well, and know with your personality, you will...
I just got back from a busy 5 days at the EQ symposium, the MWA Edgars Banquet (where Marcia Muller became Grand Master and Margaret Maron the President -- no...
Thanks, Anita (and to all the rest of you who have 'missed' me). My postings might seem a little tamer than usual because I now have a new antagonist to vent...
We have Edgars, Anthonys, and Creaseys. Perhaps there should be a new award, the Julian, for people like Penzler, just as there should be the Keeler award for...
I learnt quite by accident today that Evelyn Waugh had written a biography of Ronald Knox, who composed the original ten commandments of GAD fiction. A little...
James Joking aside you could call the polyp Otto? Tony ... From: "Wyatt James" <grobius@...> To: <GAdetection@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, April 29,...
The above April 28th event held at Columbia University was a wonderful experience. I arrived early and was lucky enough to snag a seat near the front...
The EQ Symposium sounds fascinating. EQMM has been running good articles all year on EQ, to celebrate the EQ Centenary. The recent study of the EQ novels by...
Hi, Just wanted to remind everyone about June's Mysterical-E Mysterical-E (http://www.mystericale.com) accepts submissions on a rolling basis. However, if you...
Can anyone please recommend the names of a few good bookshops where one can buy good but cheap copies of detective stories (chiefly Carr and Queen)? I'm...
Nick, I use Grave Matters -- they are here in Cincinnati (as am I), but they have a great selection of used mystery books. (They also carry all of the Crippen ...
Nick, Assuming you're interested in reading copies, as opposed to first editions, I don't think you'll do better than ABE. I find if I ask for the requests to...
If you don't "do" Ebay (which can be expensive but a mine of hard-to-gets) or you're not satisfied by Amazon, then you might like to try www.gravematters.com. ...
Alibris.com is pretty good too, similar to ABE but you can buy books directly from them too, and a $50 order gets you free shipping. Pandora`s Books have a...
Disappointing Reads-The Wrong Body by Anthony Gilbert (1950) is cookie-cutter Gilbert at best. Old lady in distress for 125 pages, then Arthur Crook to save...
Grave Matters looks a very good bet - it has several interesting collections of EQ. Many thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Nick MikeBlake@......
... I reviewed it some months ago, and it made my bests-list for 2004. I'm glad you liked it too, but then we seem to have very similar tastes as evidenced by...
Peter Lovesey: "The Vault" and "The House Sitter". The author's early Sgt. Cribb Victorian historicals were very entertaining and broke some new ground, but...
Since getting out of hospital, I have been re-reading the Dorothy Sayers mysteries that I had put off for several years (having recalled them as tediously...
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