Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Exit to Death: So Many Doors (1949), by E. R. Punshon

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Crime detection at its exciting best! This fascinating tapestry of murder and superior detection is a prime example of the classic type ...
Monday, November 28, 2016

In with the New: Five Years of Blogging and A Plenitude of Punshons, A Lone Lingo and Murder in the Closet

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It's been just over five years since my  premier blog post on November 22, 2011, on the mystery genre's "passing tramp" a...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Beware the Bushmaster! She Walks Alone (1948), by Helen McCloy

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"Tony, did you ever hear of the Emperor Yao?" "What on earth...?" "He ruled China in its Golden Age.  There is a ...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Outer Genre Limits, Part One: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

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Science fiction was of course around before the explosion of sci-fi films in the 1950s.  Even Golden Age mystery writers, like J. J. Conning...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

More Than "A Slight Case of Murder" (1938 and 1999), Part One

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How many mystery novel titles have been repeated over the decades?  Surely a great number of them.  Both " Murder is Easy " and ...
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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