Friday, June 24, 2016

Plenty of Pleasing Punshons Are Pedaling Your Way!

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a palpable sense of the sinister This month I haven't been able to blog as much as I had hoped because of various writing jobs, incl...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Forthcoming in 2016: Murder in the Closet

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June was chosen as LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the  Stonewall Riots , a landmark event in LGBT history and sexual and gender liberation....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

The Boost of the Blurb 2: The Case of the Trent's Last Case Reprint (1929)

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Blogger Kate Jackson at Cross Examining Crime , recently asked for the origin of Agatha Christie 's blurbed praise of E. C. Bentley ...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

A Short Take on Coles Shorts, Plus a Bit on Henry Wade and The Spectrum of English Murder

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Among the copious crime fiction penned by GDH and Margaret Cole (to whom I devote a chapter in The Spectrum of English Murder , currently o...
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Anita Boutell Is Back in Print Again: Death Brings a Storke (1938) and Cradled in Fear (1942)

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Back in the late 1930s and early 1940s the American expatriate writer Anita Boutell was hailed as one of the most promising newcomers in En...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Down These Mean Lanes a Librarian Must Go: The Widening Stain (1942), by W. Bolingbroke Johnson

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As my previous post indicated, Cornell University romance literature professor Morris Bishop  (1893-1973) was not a stereotypical "s...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Naked, Save for a Jockstrap, Carrying a Bowl of Goldfish

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To the Editor: In her review of Elspeth Huxley's memoirs, "Love Among the Daughters," (Sept. 22), Anne Fremantle quotes the ...
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