The Dusty Bookcase

The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...

With sadness, I report that 2023 was another year in which all my favourite acquisitions were purchased online. This is not to suggest that ...

Arriving in bookstores as I write, the eighteenth Ricochet Books title.  Whispering City is based on the Quebec City film noir of the same ...

Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...

Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland &...

Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City  may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...