Wednesday, June 29, 2022

The Adventures of Rufus King: The Making of a Major Vintage Mystery Writer

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What to do after college is a perennial question for graduates.  Some gets jobs.  Some go to grad school.  Some take a gap year.   The ...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

Rufus King: American Crime Queen

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This photo was taken in 1920 when Rufus King was 27 and serving as senior wireless operator on the steamship Annetta , licensed to the Atlan...
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Sunday, June 26, 2022

How Queer Is Classic Mystery? Perhaps It's a Question of Suspense!

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Was there a "queer influence" in classic mystery and, if so, how significant was it?  And what was it?  I have identified over for...
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Nobody Likes a Critic? Julian Symons Versus His Crime Writing Colleagues

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" The fact is that ninety per cent of crime stories, mystery stories, thrillers, are written by people with no feeling for language, pl...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories Revisited

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Here is a  link  to Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories, from William Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794) to Quiet Horror by Stanley ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

The Progress of a Crime Writer: Julian Symons's Crime Fiction, 1945 to 1996

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Although he only published his first crime novel at the age of 32, Julian Symons lived to enjoy a crime writing career of nearly half-a-ce...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Talking About Detective Fiction--Out of Both Sides of His Mouth? Julian Symons' Evolution as a Crime Fiction Critic

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He said what?   British crime writer and critic  Julian Symons (1912-1994) Most of the generation of writers that produced the Golden Age of...
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