Featuring History of Mystery/Detective Fiction and Other Literary Ramblings of Elizabeth Foxwell
Monday, December 31, 2012
Dick Francis on BBC's Great Lives.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Fri Forgotten Books:
Crime Hound, by Mary Semple Scott (1940).
I'm just an ordinary fellow with sharp ears and eyes who can sometimes do a problem in mental arithmetic.
—Mary Semple Scott, Crime Hound 50
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Jacket by Carl Cobbledick |
Mary Semple Scott (1873–1968) was a granddaughter of Illinois senator James Semple; her brothers Ashley and Semple Scott made the first electric bus in St. Louis. She was active in the woman's suffrage movement, was the editor of the suffrage magazine The Missouri Woman, and was a friend of American novelist Winston Churchill (not to be confused with the British prime minister of the same name). Crime Hound was her only mystery novel.
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Mary Semple Scott, from Mar 1904 St. Louis Republic |
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Mary Semple Scott, at left, plays the Democratic donkey in a skit at the 1920 Nat Amer Woman Suffrage Assn meeting. Library of Congress, Prints and Photos Division. |
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The Miracle on 34th Street (1955).
Monday, December 24, 2012
From OSS to a winery.
Update. Part 2 of the discussion with Sichel here.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Ardai on rediscovered Cain, From the Bookshelf.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
MacDonald on McBain/Hunter, David's Bk Talk.
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Evan Hunter, NYPL |
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Please Murder Me (1956).
Monday, December 17, 2012
Chester Himes this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
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Clues 28.1, 2010 (theme issue on Chester Himes) |
Monday, December 10, 2012
A vicar detects this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Today in 1963: Sinatra Jr kidnapping.
FBI CRACKS SINATRA KIDNAPPING CASE
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Spies in fiction on SpyCast.
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William Le Queux, NYPL |
Monday, December 03, 2012
Edwardian sleuth Thorpe Hazell this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Happy centenary, Gordon Parks.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Censoring Evan Hunter.
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Evan Hunter, NYPL |
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Household's Deadly Harvest (1972).
Monday, November 26, 2012
Haycraft-Queen: More titles back in print.
• Arcturus Crime Classics has reprinted Helen McCloy's Through a Glass, Darkly and Francis Iles's Before the Fact
• Bello (an imprint of Macmillan) has reissued Roy Vickers's The Department of Dead Ends
• Felony & Mayhem has reprinted Edmund Crispin's The Moving Toyshop
• Ramble House has an edition of Harvey J. O'Higgins's Detective Duff Unravels It
• Titan Books has reissued Sax Rohmer's The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu
• There are new ebook versions of Charlotte Armstrong's The Unsuspected (1947 film available on DVD as well) and Clayton Rawson's Death from a Top Hat
Note that there was a 2011 edition of Helen Eustis's The Horizontal Man in ImPress's Best Mysteries of All Time series, but this is an abridged version, and I believe this series is available only by subscription.
And to recap previous HQ reissues:
• Rue Morgue Press's new editions of Manning Coles's Pray Silence (US title: A Toast to Tomorrow) and John Dickson Carr's The Judas Window and The Crooked Hinge
• Blue Dolphin Publishing's reissue of H. F. Heard's A Taste for Honey
Haycraft-Queen Out-of-Print Titles in the United States (compiled and revised by Elizabeth Foxwell)
Anderson Frederick Irving - The Book of Murder - 1930
Bailey H. C. - The Red Castle - 1932
Benson G. R. - Tracks in the Snow - 1906
Charteris Leslie [Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin] - Meet the Tiger - 1928
Coates Robert M. - Wisteria Cottage - 1948
Cole G. D. H. [G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole] - The Brooklyn Murders - 1923
Dane Clemence [Winifred Ashton] and Helen Simpson - Re-enter Sir John - 1932
Davis Dorothy Salisbury - A Gentle Murderer - 1951
De la Torre Lillian [Lillian McCue] - Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector - 1946
Dickson Carter [John Dickson Carr] - Lord of the Sorcerers - 1946
Dunsany Lord - The Little Tales of Smethers - 1952
Eberhart Mignon G. - The Patient in Room 18 - 1929
Ellin Stanley - Dreadful Summit - 1948
Eustis Helen - The Horizontal Man - 1946
Frome David [Zenith Jones Brown] - The Hammersmith Murders - 1930
Gardner Erle Stanley - The Case of the Sulky Girl - 1933
Halsey Harlan Page - Old Sleuth, the Detective - 1872
Hammett Dashiell - The Adventures of Sam Spade - 1944
Hart Frances Noyes - The Bellamy Trial - 1927
Hughes Dorothy B. - The So Blue Marble - 1940
King Rufus - Murder by the Clock - 1929
Lawrence Hilda - Blood Upon the Snow - 1944
Lipsky Eleazar - The People Against O’Hara - 1950
Lockridge Frances and Richard Lockridge - The Norths Meet Murder - 1940
Lustgarten Edgar - A Case to Answer - 1947
MacDonald Philip - The Rasp - 1924
MacDonald Philip - The Nursemaid Who Disappeared [aka Warrant for X] - 1938
MacHarg William and Edwin Balmer - The Achievements of Luther Trant - 1910
Marquand John P. - No Hero - 1935
Paul Elliot - The Mysterious Mickey Finn - 1939
Piper Evelyn [Merriam Modell] - The Motive - 1950
Rhode John - The Murders in Praed Street - 1928
Rhode John - The Paddington Mystery - 1925
Rice Craig - Trial by Fury - 1941
Ross Barnaby [Ellery Queen] - The Tragedy of Y - 1932
Seeley Mabel - The Listening House - 1938
Stribling T. S. - Clues of the Caribbees - 1929
Trevor Glen [James Hilton] - Murder at School [aka Was It Murder?] - 1931
Van Dine S. S. [Willard Huntington Wright] - The Benson Murder Case - 1926
Walling R. A. J. - The Fatal Five Minutes - 1932
Walsh Thomas - Nightmare in Manhattan - 1950
Waters [William Russell] - Recollections of a Detective Police Officer - 1856
Wells Carolyn - The Clue - 1909
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Popeye, PI.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Winifred Holtby's "Why Herbert Killed His Mother."
. . . among the things a Fella does, correct grammar is not necessarily included.Winifred Holtby is probably best known for South Riding (recently shown on PBS) and as the subject of her best friend Vera Brittain's book Testament of Friendship, but for one more week you can listen online to her sly short story "Why Herbert Killed His Mother" (read by Anna Massey) at BBC Radio 4 Extra. Although Holtby considered it a "very poor story" (Selected Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby 293), it's been reprinted in at least four anthologies since it first appeared in Holtby's Truth Is Not Sober (1934; see, for example, Bad Behavior and P. G. Wodehouse's A Century of Humour). Sadly, Holtby died in 1935 at age 37 of Bright's disease.
—Winifred Holtby, "Why Herbert Killed His Mother"
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Pulp magazines in "Thrill Seekers" exhibition.
Monday, November 12, 2012
And away we go: Gleason and the paranormal.
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Gleason-designed bookplate from U-Miami's Jackie Gleason Collection |
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Glimpses of royalty from Marie Belloc Lowndes.
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Marie Belloc Lowndes, from the Evening Public Ledger, Apr 7, 1917 |
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Lawrence Treat's "The Debt" (1952).
Monday, November 05, 2012
"... I have been prepared to be shot."
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Theodore Roosevelt, NYPL |
Thursday, November 01, 2012
BBC Radio 4 program on European detectives.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tune up the zither: Third Man Museum.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Whispering City (1947).
Monday, October 29, 2012
New TV version of Mystery of a Hansom Cab.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Clues 30.2: Paranormal mysteries.
Introduction: From Psychical Investigation to Paranormal Detective A. B. EMRYS (emerita, University of Nebraska-Kearney). The guest editor of this Clues theme issue on paranormal mysteries introduces the issue, outlining the themes of the contributor essays and mentioning authors such as Alice and Claude Askew, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hamlin Garland, Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpinar, Fitz-James O’Brien, Sandra West Prowell, and Ian Rankin.
What Are They? The Pseudo-Mystery Stories of Fitz-James O’Brien PETE ORFORD The works of Fitz-James O’Brien are largely forgotten. The author considers how two of O’Brien’s works resemble early detective fiction and assesses how the stories’ hero, Harry Escott, both conforms to and subverts the figure of the detective as presented by the bookending icons of C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes.
Literature for the People: The Paranormal Mysteries of Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar ÖZGÜR ÇIÇEK (Binghamton University, SUNY) and IRMA KERTUNA-HOWISON (Beykent University, Istanbul). The authors examine Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s paranormal mysteries in the context of the modernization of the late Ottoman Empire. His popular style, distinctive from other Westernizing movements at the time, as well as his incorporation of traditional narrative techniques, reveal how Gürpınar hybridizes the Western genre of paranormal mystery in early Turkish literature.
CSΨ: Occult Detectives of the Fin de Siècle and the Interpretation of Evidence SARAH CROFTON (King's College, London). Early occult-detective fiction aped the familiar detective formula, playfully substituting its basis in criminalistics for psychical research. In disrupting the archetype, it draws attention to a gap traditionally elided in detective fiction but at the heart of occultism: that between proof in its absolute sense and the persuasive proof of a convincing story.
Aylmer Vance and the Paradox of the Paranormal OLIVER TEARLE (Loughborough University, UK). How can the ever-mysterious world of the supernatural be successfully joined with the detective story, a genre that thrives on tying up loose ends in the narrative? Through a comparison of some of the best-known fictional psychical detectives and investigators, this article seeks to explore the important issues surrounding this hybrid genre.
Beyond the Border: The Author as Occult Detective in Hamlin Garland’s The Mystery of the Buried Crosses TIM PRCHAL (Oklahoma State University). Occult detectives probe fictional mysteries rooted in the supernatural. In The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939), Hamlin Garland recounts his investigation into a real-life mystery involving spiritualism. Like the fictional detectives, Garland urges readers to ponder the borders of their physical world but offers no definitive stance on supernatural intrusions.
Montana Gothic: Sandra West Prowell’s Phoebe Siegel Mysteries RACHEL SCHAFFER (Montana State University Billings). Montana author Sandra West Prowell blends gothic and paranormal elements, including mysterious mansions, ghostly sightings, and prophetic dreams, as she examines issues of social justice, particularly for women and Native Americans, and highlights Native American spirituality, all from the irreverent point of view of private investigator Phoebe Siegel.
Ghosts and Skeletons: Metaphors of Guilty History in Ian Rankin’s Rebus Series ERIN E. MacDONALD (Fanshawe College, Canada). The author examines Ian Rankin’s use of the gothic convention of the ghost in Black and Blue, Dead Souls, Set in Darkness, and “The Very Last Drop.” In these works, ghosts and skeletons are used as metaphors for Detective Inspector John Rebus’s guilt over past mistakes and for the dark past of his home city, Edinburgh.
Ghost-Seeing and Detection in Stir of Echoes MURRAY LEEDER (Carleton University, Canada). The author explores the links between the ghost story and the classical detective story, using as a case study the 1999 film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s Stir of Echoes (1959). The author explores the relationship of the restless dead to the living as well as the investment of the detective with powers to see a secret world hidden from everyday human vision.
The Mystifying Rationale of Psychic Detection EDEN LEONE (Bowling Green State University, OH). Through an examination of the USA Network series Psych (2006–), the author discusses how the psychic detective subverts the model of rational detection as exemplified by Sherlock Holmes.
ESSAY
Homicide and Home-icide: Exhuming Ireland’s Past in the Detective Novels of Tana French SHIRLEY PETERSON (Daemen College, NY). Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series features police procedurals in which homicide investigations act as a social critique of “home-cide” in the “new” Ireland spawned by the economic boom known as the Celtic Tiger. Dublin is a crime scene in which victims of its inconvenient past refuse to stay buried until justice is served.
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen Knight. The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. DANIEL STEIN
Christine A. Jackson. The Tell-Tale Art: Poe in Modern Popular Culture and Paul Meehan. Horror Noir: Where Cinema’s Dark Sisters Meet JIM MANCALL
A Land Down Under: Recent Crime Fiction and Nonfiction from Australia STEPHEN KNIGHT
Friday, October 26, 2012
The return of The Female Detective (1864).
It often happens to us detectives . . . that we are the first movers in matters of great ultimate importance to individuals in particular, and the public at large (Forrester, The Female Detective 6)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Margaret Millar's "Rose's Last Summer" (1960).
Monday, October 22, 2012
Lady of burlesque (and mystery).
Here is Barbara Stanwyck jitterbugging and performing Russian splits in Lady of Burlesque (film adaptation of The G-String Murders).
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Barry Nelson debuts as James Bond, 1954.
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Barry Nelson as James Bond in "Casino Royale" |
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
McCloy, Moyes, and White reissued.
• MWA Grand Master Helen McCloy, Through a Glass, Darkly (1950). A doppelganger means trouble for a teacher and psychiatrist Basil Willing. The New York Times deemed it one of the best mysteries of 1950. Wrote Dorothy B. Hughes about the book in the Dec. 3, 1950, Washington Post, "Not since the late Bayard Veiller's 'Bait for a Tiger' has this reader been filled with such actual fear by a printed page."
• Patricia Moyes, Who Saw Her Die? (aka Many Deadly Returns, 1970). In this Edgar-nominated novel, Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett must figure out how a widow died.
• Ethel Lina White, Some Must Watch (1933). A killer preys on vulnerable women in this novel by the author of The Lady Vanishes that was adapted as Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Woolrich's Fear in the Night (1947).
A man is uncertain if his dream of committing murder is just a dream—or reality. The film, based on "And So to Death" (1941, later repr. as "Nightmare") by Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym of William Irish, stars Star Trek's DeForest Kelley.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Happy birthday, Ed McBain/Evan Hunter.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Eyes in the Night (1942).
In Eyes in the Night (1942, dir. Fred Zinnemann), Edward Arnold plays a blind detective who uncovers a Nazi plot. The film is an adaptation of The Odor of Violets (1940) by Mystery Writers of America cofounder and Grand Master Baynard Kendrick (see also the TV program Longstreet based on Kendrick's work). The follow-up film, The Hidden Eye (1945), was scripted by MWA Grand Master George Harmon Coxe.
Monday, October 08, 2012
Happy birthday, Jill Ker Conway.
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Hammett's "Two Sharp Knives" (1949).
In the 1949 Studio One production of Dashiell Hammett's "Two Sharp Knives" (1934), a police chief has his doubts about the case of a man accused of murder. The episode features Abe Vigoda along with a cameo by Hammett and is directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Papillon, Patton, Planet of the Apes). Note that there is also a 1942 radio version of "Two Sharp Knives" from Suspense.
Monday, October 01, 2012
Exhibition: Famous Trials and Their Legacies.
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Jodie Foster in Sommersby |
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
"Leviathan Five" (1964).
Monday, September 24, 2012
Nominating mystery authors for halls of fame.
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Anna Katharine Green. NYPL |
State Halls of Fame Devoted to Writers
East Tennessee. It appears the next nominations process will open in June 2013.Georgia. Current nominees include Mignon Ballard and Virginia Lanier.
Minnesota. Nominated writers must have links to Minnesota, either through birth or residence in the state while producing a body of work. A good candidate for nomination would be Haycraft-Queen lister Mabel Seeley.
Missouri. 2012 Quill Award inductee is Ridley Pearson.
Nevada.
New York. In addition to my nominations of Hunter and Green (mentioned above), another appropriate nominee would be Brewster's Rex Stout—something that the Wolfe Pack should back.
North Carolina. Elizabeth Daniels Squire was inducted in 2006 and Manly Wade Wellman in 1996.
Oklahoma. Jean Hager was inducted in 1992, Carolyn Hart in 1993, and William Bernhardt in 1997.
South Carolina. Does not appear to have a nominations process open to the public. Mickey Spillane was inducted in 2012.
Texas. Established by the Friends of the Fort Worth Public Library to recognize authors who have contributed to the literary heritage of Texas. Bill Crider was inducted in 2010.
Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame. Sponsored by the Friends of the Milwaukee Public Library. August Derleth was inducted in 1997.
Other
Alabama Men's Hall of Fame.
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Deadline for nominations: November 1, 2012.
Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Evan Hunter on Hitchcock this week on
BBC Radio 4 Extra.
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Evan Hunter, NYPL. |
Friday, September 21, 2012
Fri Forgotten Bks: Murder of the Man Next Door by Peter Malloch (1966).
He settled down with his newspaper unaware that life was ebbing away in the silent darkness, so close at hand.
—Peter Malloch, Murder of the Man Next Door 53

Malloch's brisk, workmanlike prose provides deft portraits of people who are leading lives of quiet desperation in a seemingly sleepy British neighborhood.
Malloch was just one pseudonym of Glaswegian author (and former Canadian resident) William Murdoch Duncan (1909–75). He published more than 200 novels and more than 20 novellas/short stories over the course of his career, beginning with Doctor Deals with Murder (1944); an Evening Times article of August 6, 1970, stated that he could produce a thriller in a fortnight. His series characters include Inspector (later Superintendent) Flagg, Sugar Kane (pause for groan at pun), Solo Malcolm, and Mr. Sandyman.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971).
Based on the 1970 book by Doris Miles Disney, Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate features Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick, and Sylvia Sidney as elderly women who create an alluring, fictitious dating profile as a joke and reap sinister results. Prescient in terms of today's concerns with online safety, it was the precursor to the Snoop Sisters TV series.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Faulkner tries to obtain his royalties.
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William Faulkner. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div |
Friday, September 14, 2012
Photographer-director Gordon Parks at 100.
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Gordon Parks's autobiography, available from MN Hist Soc P |
• "Gordon Parks, Ralph Ellison, and 'Invisible Man,'" which runs through October 27. It includes Parks's photographs published in Life at the time of the publication of Ellison's Invisible Man.
• "Gordon Parks: Centennial," which also runs through October 27, features Parks's work over 50 years, including a famous civil rights portrait that invokes Grant Wood's "American Gothic."
Other Parks exhibitions:
• "Gordon Parks: 100 Moments." Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL. Through December 1.
• "Gordon Parks: Crossroads." Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Through September 25.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The long-suffering bookseller.
Customer: I read a book in the eighties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean?Here is a BBC Open Book piece on the book.
Campbell is now writing a sequel and invites submissions from booksellers and librarians.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Vincent Price in Rinehart's The Bat (1959).
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
UCLA showcases the career of Rod Serling.
Update. Television Obscurities discusses an alternative version of The New People pilot.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
"The Squeeze" (1953), with Dick Powell.
Monday, September 03, 2012
100 years of Syd Hoff.
• The exhibition "Syd Hoff: Finding Home" is on display at the Miami Beach Regional Library until October 1. Its curator, Dina Weinstein, wrote the article "Are Syd Hoff's Books Jewish?".
• Hoff's niece, Carol Edmonston, has been working on an enhanced Web site featuring his life and work. It includes his children's books, advertising, cartoons, murals, and radical works under the pseudonym A. Redfield. Hoff also published short stories in periodicals such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, and Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine.
• Cartoonist Mike Lynch highlights on his blog a rather wonderful book, Collier Collects Its Wits (1941), which features self-portraits by cartoonists such as Hoff ("a citizen of the Bronx [since] 1912") and Charles Addams.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
A selection of Faber's mystery cover art.
• The Black Tower by P. D. James (1975)
• Death at Crane's Court by Eilis Dillon (1953; new ed. from Rue Morgue P)
• Death by Request by Romilly John and K[atherine]. John (1933). Romilly was the son of painter Augustus John and the half-brother of cellist Amaryllis Fleming, half-sister of Ian Fleming.
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George Antheil, NYPL |
• An English Murder by Cyril Hare (aka Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, 1951)
• Famous Crimes, retold by "The Prince of Criminologists," William Roughead (1935)
• The Mummy Case by Dermot Morrah (1933; review here)
• The Ticker-Tape Murder by Milton Propper (1930; review here; partially serialized in the Border City Star, parts 1, 2, 3)
• A Tomb with a View by BBC producer Lance Sieveking (1950)
And of interest to Rex Stout fans:
• Forest Fire by Stout (1934; review here)
• Mr. Cinderella by Stout (1939; better cover of U.S. ed. here; review here)
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Sayers's "Suspicion," on screen.
Monday, August 27, 2012
New book on Pauline E. Hopkins,
early mystery writer.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
August 1979: Hart to Hart debuts.
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Robert Wagner in Hart to Hart |
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Remembering Phyllis Thaxter: Cheever/Armstrong's "The Five-Forty-Eight."

Monday, August 20, 2012
What coroner's inquests reveal.
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Australian explorer Robert O'Hara Burke (of Burke and Wills fame, NYPL). A mock coroner's inquiry in 2012 looked into the cause of their deaths in 1861. |
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Lovesey on Conan Doyle and the Olympics.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
"... Underdog Is Here."
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The defender of Sweet Polly Purebread, on the job. |
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
"Committed" (with Alan Ladd, 1954).
In this December 1954 episode of GE Theater introduced by Ronald Reagan and starring Alan Ladd and John Howard, a mystery writer faces a frame-up for murder and confinement in a mental institution. Its previous incarnation was the 1949 "Daytime Nightmare"—an episode of the radio series Box 13, also featuring Ladd.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Ed McBain, just out on DVD.
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Chicago's Planet Pulp exhibition.
Monday, August 06, 2012
2012 Dove Awardees: Roberts, Charles.
The Dove Award, named for the late distinguished mystery scholar George N. Dove, recognizes contributions to the serious study of mystery and crime fiction. Past recipients include Douglas G. Greene, the late H. R. F. Keating, Catherine Ross Nickerson, and yours truly.
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Clara Foltz, pioneering CA lawyer.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Faulkner's "An Error in Chemistry," on screen.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Journal issue, law and gender in 19C England.
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, NYPL. |
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Dirda on Ross Thomas, Robert L. Fish.
(Hat tip to PhiloBiblos)
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The Lodger redux: Man in the Attic (1953).
Monday, July 23, 2012
New score for Hitchcock's The Lodger.
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Ivor Novello in The Lodger (1926) |
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Auction results, Poe Mummy story; Conan Doyle.
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William Faulkner. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Div. |
• Edgar Allan Poe, "Some Words with a Mummy," "Valley of Unrest," and "The City in the Sea," April 1845. $313.
• William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay. 1st ed. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. $11,875. Faulkner's first novel, with a World War I subject.
• Delightful 1969 illustration by Charles Addams of Wednesday Addams metamorphosing into a werewolf while reading The Werewolf of Paris. $4000.
• "Get into Books" illustration from 1983 by Sandra Boynton. $4000.
• "Sing Out for Books" illustration from 1965 by Hilary Knight (known as the illustrator of the Eloise series by Kay Thompson). $875.
(Hat tip to PhiloBiblos)