Sunday, October 30, 2016

An Abbott and Costello Comedy Creeper Double Feature: Hold That Ghost (1941) and Who Done It? (1942)

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Being a great fan of Universal classic horror films as a kid in the 1970s, one of my favorite films that was shown regularly on television...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Pump up the Volume! Radioland Murders (1994)

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witnesses to death Scott Michael Campbell and Brian Benben Radioland Murders , a terrifically frenetic yet warmly nostalgic comedy-myst...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Writing Illini, Part 2: More Detail on the College Days of Rudy Kagey, aka Kurt Steel

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Pictured in this 1927 Sigma Alpha Epsilon group photo are Rudolph H. Kagey (second row, fifth from left) and his close college friends C...
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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Writing Illini: Rudy Kagey (aka Kurt Steel) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Although Rudolph Hornaday Kagey (aka mystery writer Kurt Steel ) was born in 1904 in the small Illinois town of Tuscola, sometime around the...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

So You're Going to Write a Mystery? Kurt Steel Has Some Tips For You

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Kurt Steel 's " So You're Going to Write a Mystery ," is, like crime writer Todd Downing 's " Murder Is a Rathe...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

"Oh-So-Irritating Wise Guy Crap": Chandler Melts Steel (But Was Chandler Full of Hot Air?)

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Shot Down Chandler wrote dismissively of Kurt Steel's crime fiction but in earning Chandler's scorn Steel found himself in goo...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

Hard as Steel with a Heart of Gold: The Hank Hyer detective novels of Rudolf Hornaday Kagey (1904-1946), aka "Kurt Steel"

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aka "Kurt Steel" (1904-1946) As " Kurt Steel " New York University college professor Rudolf Hornaday Kagey between ...
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