Saturday, October 18, 2014

Rex Stout’s The Red Box

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The Red Box was the fourth of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe murder mysteries. It was published in 1937. While they are fine examples of golden ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Skeleton Closet of Jules de Grandin

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The American pulp writer Seabury Quinn (1889-1969) is best known for his stories chronicling the adventures of occult detective Jules de ...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Three Gun Terry and the birth of the hard-boiled style

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Carroll John Daly is now not much more than a footnote in the history of crime fiction. A footnote, but a very significant one. Carroll J...
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Leslie Charteris’s Featuring the Saint

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Featuring the Saint , published in 1931, was one of Leslie Charteris’s early books about his famous hero Simon Templar, the Saint. It is ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

S. S. Van Dine’s The Dragon Murder Case

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The Dragon Murder Case , published in 1933, was the seventh of S. S. Van Dine’s twelve Philo Vance mysteries. I think it’s one of his bes...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Jack Williamson’s The Legion of Space

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Jack Williamson’s The Legion of Space was serialised in Astounding in 1934 and later published in book form. Williamson’s idea was to t...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Henry Wade's Heir Presumptive

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Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet CVO DSO (1887-1969) wrote detective novels using the pseudonym Henry Wade. And very...