Friday, January 29, 2016

Ellery Queen's Calamity Town

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Calamity Town marked a major change in direction for the Ellery Queen mysteries. Published in 1942 this was the first of the so-called W...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

E. E. “Doc” Smith's The Skylark of Space

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The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest (and most influential) examples of space opera. It launched the writing career of one of the...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Ellery Queen's The Spanish Cape Mystery

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The Spanish Cape Mystery , which was published in 1935,  was the ninth and last of the Ellery Queen “nationality” mysteries. It was also ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Conan Doyle's The Maracot Deep

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered today, of course, for the Sherlock Holmes stories. In fact these represented only a fraction of...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

Henry Wade's No Friendly Drop

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Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (1887-1969) wrote twenty detective novels under the n...
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Sunday, January 3, 2016

The Crouching Beast by Valentine Williams

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The Crouching Beast is one of the many thrillers written by Valentine Williams. Published in 1928 it is one of a series of novels featur...
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Friday, January 1, 2016

best vintage crime reads of 2015

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I read 36 crime novels this year. All of them would I think qualify as golden age detective fiction. Oddly enough I did not read a single h...