My thoughts on the first six chapters: CHAPTER ONE A good introduction, if slightly pretentious - "Weltanschauung! they cried. The old oblate spheroid was...
... women unmarried, 3) pink silk for a woman, blue for a man (tick) and 4) all had telephones (something that passed me by as these days most people have at...
I WAS ALSO GIVEN THOSE 5 EQ BOOKS! AND I ALSO READ ALL THE S.S.VAN DINE BOOKS WHEN I WAS 13 BECAUSE MY BROTHER HAD*STILL HAS(THEM, IN POCKET BOOK EDITONS ... ...
I just finished reading it and though a lifelong EQ aficionado, I have very mixed feelings about this book. The setting is great, the plot is as clever as...
WARNING! SPOILERS! Like Xavier, I finished Cat yesterday and had mixed feelings. Although it's often been called a masterpiece, I thought it was quite flawed...
Pretentious writing has always been Ellery Queen's worst flaw as a writer, no matter how clever his plots. (That's why I say you have to take it as written...
I just finished reading "Death from a Top Hat" this evening and have a question regarding the "Great Bullet Catching Trick" scene. Spolier! Spoiler! Spoiler! ...
I too thought the book quite fun though overblown and adolescent at times. The mob riot scene is excellent and quite memorable. I don't think it's correct to...
Frances Crane - "The Buttercup Case" Len Deighton - "Funeral in Berlin" Georgette Heyer - "Behold Here's Poison" Richard and Frances Lockridge - "The Long...
Rex Stout - "A Right To Die" This is really Grade A. It has a fascinating mix of politics (a look at the Civil Rights era in the US), plus inventive plotting....
Just a 'quickie' to let board members know that the June 'issue' of Criminal History has been uploaded. This includes an article about collecting crime...
... Courtesy of http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Michael_Underwood.htm Michael Underwood (John Michael Evelyn) (1916 - 1992) Novels Murder on Trial...
If you'll forgive a commercial plug, the second edition of my NOVEL VERDICTS: A GUIDE TO COURTROOM FICTION (Scarecrow Press, 1999, and still in print) includes...
... I realize now why I thought I'd read something by him. I actually read the mystery of the same name by Roy H. Lewis, an Arnold Landon book. --Mike Blake...
The Great Portrait Mystery and other stories--Text--ZIP [Non-Thorndyke] The Jacob Street Mystery--Text--ZIP The Shadow of the Wolf--Text--ZIP When Rogues Fall...
Right-o! I've downloaded them all, and several other mysteries. l think I asked in an earlier posting what is a good, relatively cheap, hand-held e-book...
Hi Wyatt, Don't buy an ebook reader - buy a PDA and then you can use it for other things as well. Cheap and cheerful - from the Web PALM zire 21 8mb palm os...
Is it really practical to read e-books on such a small screen? Seems decidedly unpleasant and exhausting to me. Sam Karnick S. T. Karnick Senior Editor,...
This is a police procedural set in the Golden Age: one of a series of historical mysteries wherein Mr. Collins (the author of graphic novel and noir film 'Road...
I'm far from a technophobe and appreciate the storage benefit ... but I can't get my mind away from the concept of the 'feel' or the possession of a 'real'...
I have up to now resisted getting into this prolific author -- yet another strain on budget and storage space. But somebody lent me "No Graves As Yet" (part...
Very interesting article. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. (It may be off-theme, but that does not make it irrelevant.) ... Palmreader. ... done ... ...
He probably threw each suit away afterwards...In another incident, he turned up for an exhumation in the inevitable suit plus a top hat. When the coffin was...
I've not read her yet either, Wyatt -- for mostly the same reasons as you. But a couple of weeks ago my sister gave me her copy of The Face of a Stranger, the...
Hand of Fate is excellent. A clever courtroom tale in the tradition of Witness for the Prosecution (most of Underwood's books have law settings, I believe)....
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