Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Protege (1970), by Charlotte Armstrong

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Between 1942 and 1970 nearly thirty Charlotte Armstrong (1905-1969) novels were published.  Most of these are categorized as "tales of ...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Tempests: Murder on the Yacht (1932), by Rufus King

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As I write this post Hurricane Isaac is making landfall in Louisiana as a minimal (75 mph) hurricane.  It's much a much weaker storm th...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012

John Dillinger, Cole Porter and Rufus King Walk Into a Bar....

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What connects John Dillinger , renowned gangster, and Cole Porter , renowned songwriter, to Rufus King , once highly esteemed but now mostl...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Maneaters: Murder by Latitude (1930), by Rufus King

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Valcour sat beside Captain Sohme at the forward end of the small lounge.  The leaden sky and air made of it a cubicle of murk which the ceil...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Everything's More Mysterious in Texas: A Mammoth Murder (2006), by Bill Crider

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Visitors to this blog may know I have a certain interest in American regionalist and local color mysteries. I was born in South Dakota and g...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Not with a Bang but a Snicker: Dover The Collected Short Stories (1995), by Joyce Porter

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Dover: The Collected Short Stories (1995)--a volume which collects all the short stories, originally appearing in Ellery Queen's Myster...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

I've Been Flickr'ed! More on Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery (2012)

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An update on  Masters of the 'Humdrum" Mystery before tomorrow's forgotten book piece on the short stories of Joyce Porter (I...