Monday, March 20, 2017

Brown's "Leaves of an Hour" exhibition.

Richard Kiley in "The Holy
Ground—The Killing, Pt 1," Judd
for the Defense
(dir. Leo Penn,
writ. William Kelley, 1969)
Brown University Library's "Leaves of an Hour" online exhibition includes the following items of mystery-related interest: 
  • Title page from Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (1930)
  • Mention of author, screenwriter, and Brown alum William P. Kelley (Judd for the Defense; Oscar winner for Witness. Clip from Kelley's acceptance speech at the 1986 Oscars; he's the white-haired fellow.)
  • Mention of the library's collection of spy fiction by Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt
  • Discussion of the library's H. P. Lovecraft collections

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