Saturday, October 31, 2015

Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

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The lurid fright film  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  (1962), starring film legends  Bette Davis and Joan Crawford , proved such a h...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Tuesday Night Bloggers: Agatha Christie, Week #5

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Links to our last group posting on Agatha Christie for now. Quite a company of bloggers this week!  Next week, as I understand it, we will ...

Murder as a Fine Art: Tom Adams and Agatha Christie

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Illustrator Tom Adams seems to be everyone's favorite Agatha Christie paperback cover artist. Certainly he is mine--in part, I'll ...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

The Return of Harriet Rutland: Knock, Murderer, Knock! (1938), Bleeding Hooks (1940) and Blue Murder (1942) reissued by Dean Street Press

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Under the pseudonym " Harriet Rutland ," Olive Maude (Seers) Shimwell (1901-1962) published three detective novels around the...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The Labours of Hercules (1947), by Agatha Christie, Part Two; Plus a Few Words on the Film Version (2013)

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Picking up where I left off last week , Hercule Poirot has now begun his seventh labor in Agatha Christie 's the short collection The La...
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Tuesday Night Bloggers: Agatha Christie, Week 4

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Here are the links to this week's Tuesday Night Bloggers Agatha Christie posts. This week we introduce a new Tuesday Nighter, Kate J...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Down These Dysfunctional Drawing Rooms a Man Must Go: Ross Macdonald's Black Money (1966) and The Instant Enemy (1968)

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Black Money (1966) is my favorite Ross Macdonald novel from the 1960s, in part because it steers away from the intricate, indeed dizzying, ...
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