tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post625795047221169002..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Gilt-y Parties: The Annulet of Gilt (1938), by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Tuesday Night Bloggers: Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Week 3)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-80240563154932320222016-04-21T15:12:02.812-07:002016-04-21T15:12:02.812-07:00Supposed Edgar Wallace could write a novel over a ...Supposed Edgar Wallace could write a novel over a weekend! Of course the heroine's name would change over the course of the book....<br /><br />Have you looked at Taylor's Alice Tilton series? It's less local color and more screwball.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-58122052631994255242016-04-20T20:28:44.274-07:002016-04-20T20:28:44.274-07:00I have to confess that, when I read Taylor's T...I have to confess that, when I read Taylor's <i>The Cape Cod Mystery</i> a few years ago, I really didn't enjoy it. I've never tried her work since, which I accept is probably a failing of mine own. Clearly you and the others rate her far more highly!<br /><br /><i>As I recollect, the cheeky Taylor claimed that she wrote her mysteries in about three weeks</i><br /><br />I don't find that improbable at all. I've written a full-length novel in under three weeks at least three times (a couple of times in a fortnight). Yes, yes, I know, I'm open to all the "and they read like it" jokes. A while ago I was briefly in touch with a writer who'd done a full-length (70,000+ words) novel between the Friday and the Monday of a single weekend; he told me it wasn't the only time he'd done this. Me, since, I type essentially with one fnger, I reckon his feat is beyond me!noirencyclopediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02843963811822980754noreply@blogger.com