Thursday, September 24, 2020

Making America Grim Again: Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales (2017)

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"Well," he said again.  "Never been summer people before, at the lake after Labor Day." --" The Summer People ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2020

Copper Mines and Soap Kettles: Money and the Making of Mystery Writer Margaret Erskine (1901-1984)

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Landed wealth was such a common feature of between-the-wars British mystery that ever since, despite periodic efforts to delimit this formal...
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Saturday, September 5, 2020

How Fell of Bell to Blue the Jews: The China Roundabout (1956), by Josephine Bell

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How odd of God/To choose the Jews -- William Norman Ewer (attributed) The presence of antisemitism in the Golden Age British detective nove...
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Friday, September 4, 2020

The Merape Papers: The Crippled Muse (1951), by Hugh Wheeler

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After his 1951 publication, under his own name, of The Crippled Muse , a novel about a "poetess" (as many reviewers insisted on ca...
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Monday, August 31, 2020

I'm Afraid I Don't See It! The Seeing Eye (1958), by Josephine Bell

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Pity the poor mystery writer, expected to grind out her (or his) annual thriller (sometimes two) for her (or his) insatiable audience, wheth...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Circling Back: Jonathan Stagge's The Scarlet Circle (1936 and 1943)

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Jonathan Stagge 's Dr. Hugh Westlake detective novel The Scarlet Circle (1943), in which the good doctor and his daughter Dawn encounte...
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