J. S. Fletcher on his ouput.

As reported in the February 1933 issue of American Mercury, mystery author J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) wrote to his publisher, Alfred Knopf, on 7 November 1932 about his output: 

Some controversy having arisen in a literary journal as to whether I have written as many books as Edgar Wallace, I asked the British Museum people to tell me how many books I have published. I have just had their reply—233. 

Awful!

Film Music Friday: "Sherlock Holmes in the Movies."

 

Nicol Williamson as Sherlock Holmes in
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

A recent episode of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday is on "Sherlock Holmes in the Movies," with selections ranging from The Hound of the Baskervilles and Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror to The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Young Sherlock Holmes.

Still more on Simenon, Maigret, etc.

As I noted in blog posts in 2019 and 2022, Christopher Osterberg of the Budapest Times has been reading his way through the Georges Simenon oeuvre. Here are links to his reviews since July 2022:

• The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret

• The Widow Couderc

• The World of Bond and Maigret (a 1964 dialogue between Ian Fleming and Simenon; link to booklet)