Monday, February 20, 2017

Heavens, Philippa Bevans! The Notorious Landlady (1962)

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The Notorious Landlady is a 1962 romantic comedy thriller starring Kim Novak (she got top billing) and Jack Lemmon , with supporting perfo...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Lipstick Vogue: The Lipstick Killer, The Bloody Spur (1953) and While the City Sleeps (1956)

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"Turn off the television and tell me all about it." "Don't you like this program?" She made a face.  "It s...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

John Marshall O'Connor (1909-1975), Author of Anonymous Footsteps (1932)

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John Marshall O'Connor (1909-1975) published a single known detective novel, Anonymous Footsteps , called " an entertaining and ...

Miscellany at the Passing Tramp: Rumbles, Footsteps, Closets and Elizabeth Gill

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As promised here are some maps and floor plans from The Rumble Murders and Anonymous Footsteps , first the endpaper map of Randall Green ...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Snowbound! Anonymous Footsteps (1932), by John M. O'Connor

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Last week this blog announced the reprinting this month of The Rumble Murders (1932), an energetic, amusing and erudite detective novel b...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Get Ready To Rumble: The Rumble Murders (1932), by Mason Deal (Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.)

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What one does with a dead body has always been a pressing problem for murderers, both in crime fiction and in real life crime.  During the 1...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Coming Out: Murder in the Closet (2017)

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A book I had the privilege of editing and introducing, Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall (M...
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