Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Auction!

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  Some auctions  by me in which you might be interested.  Check out the listings, vintage mystery fans.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Back to Eden: Will the Crime Fiction of Eden Phillpotts Ever Really Be Revived?

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When he was forty-six years old Eden Phillpotts advised his  nineteen-year-old Torquay neighbor Agatha Miller to stick with the writing thin...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Bringing Coles to New Readers: Shedunnit and Me and Douglas and Margaret Cole

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I was pleased to participate in a Shedunnit   podcast this month on the spousal mystery writing team of GDH (Douglas) and Margaret Cole , w...
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Sunday, June 25, 2023

From Stage to Page: Milton Herbert Gropper's and Edna Sherry's Inspector Kennedy/Homicide and Is No One Innocent? (with a tease on Edna Sherry's Sudden Fear)

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The Bijou Theater, where Inspector Kennedy played,  adjacent to the Morosco, where the Bat started it all In December 1929, Inspector Kenned...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Children's Hour--Lady Bountiful in a Red Roadster: The Hidden Staircase (1930) and The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1931), by "Carolyn Keene"

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My sister's bedroom in our ranch house in Northport, Alabama back in the 1970s was decorated in colors of pale yellow and blue.  In the ...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Prince Albert in a Can: Out of the Dark/Child's Play (1964), by Ursula Curtiss and its film adaptation I Saw What You Did (1965)

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To a great extent, children were neither seen nor heard in Golden Age detective fiction, though they certainly pop up in Dorothy L. Sayers ...
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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Cozy Sundays: "Fee Fie Ho Hum!" The Blood of an Englishman (2014), by MC Beaton

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At the time of its publication, The Blood of an Englishman (2014) was advertised as something of an "event" in crime writer MC Be...
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