Random thoughts of Xavier Lechard. And yet Poe, as Borges saw, is indispensable. Not bad for a guy who died at 40 in abject poverty and near obscurity.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015. 2014, a somewhat tardy wrap-up. I know that feels like years ago now. How did I read them? 165 e-books to 16 tree-books. Number of writers I had to google to sex. In its own way, also terrible.

Mary Astor, Margaret Millar, and Celuloid Hell. I put it that the title character, Rose French, had seen her Hollywood career done in by age. They were covered, from floor to cei.

A penname of Dennis Lynds, who has become my favorite contributor to this series and this fast-paced, cleverly concocted story demonstrates why. A near classic example of the code-breaker.

8230; courtesy of the British Library. Two more sleeps before opening though. Reading wrap-up for July 2017. This gallery contains 6 photos.

Crime, Supernatural and Adventure fiction. Obscure, Forgotten and Well Worth Reading. Friday, April 13, 2018. Anthony Bathurst is called upon to assist in solving the murder of the man on the bus in Murder En Route. We also later discover that Bathurst has a wide knowledge of t.

Monday, August 10, 2015. S An Old Lady Dies. And The Musical Comedy Crime.

Pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Was one of the early Norman Conquest thrillers by Berkeley Gray, appearing in 1939. The last of the more than fifty Norman Conquest novels was published in 1969. As an extra added bonus Miss Dynamite. Features one of the great fictional evil spider women, as deadly as she is beautiful.

Locked Rooms and Impossible Murders in the Mystery Fiction. Published in 1979, that is also today the bible for us. In 1991 he published a second edition, revised and enlarged in the amount of collected material. The first chapter of 99 Chambres Closes.

Sunday, August 9, 2015. Became the basis for the movie. Which starred a young Marilyn Monroe as a mentally unbalanced baby-sitter.