Thursday, June 1, 2017

Petrella Perfect: Blood and Judgment (1959), by Michael Gilbert

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oh, let's just say "a classic" with no qualifiers "In books of course it is quite simple. I believe that private det...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Passing Glances from the Passing Tramp: Garve, Gilbert, Bell and Blochman Part One: Garve

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My posting on this blog ground to a virtual halt this Spring after my father was hospitalized with COPD and pneumonia.  He was in hospital...
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Sunday, May 28, 2017

It Takes a Village? The Case of the Unfortunate Village (1932), by Christopher Bush

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"Another accident in the unfortunate village of Bableigh...."                       -- The Case of the Unfortunate Village (193...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Peter Drax's Golden Age Crime Fiction

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This month Dean Street Press has reprinted six of the seven Golden Age crime novels of Peter Drax  (Eric Elrington Addis), one of the gre...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Worth Fifty Years of Late Fees? The Shocking Tale of William Faulkner and Marion Mainwaring's Murder in Pastiche (1954)

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William Faulkner, like his mother, was a great reader of detective fiction....The classic cases and sleuths are there in hardcover and paper...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Academic Annihilation: Murder at Midyears (1953), by Marion Mainwaring

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"This room--it's nothing but prufrock on the surface.  But one of these nice cultured people sipping tea killed a man three days ag...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

The Owner Lies Dead (1930) and Johnny on the Spot (1943): Two More Vintage Mystery Reissues

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Tyline Perry 's The Owner Lies Dead was one of the most praised detective novels of 1930, in both Great Britain and the United St...
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