The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Dixon. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Dixon. Show all posts

25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...

26 December 2024

The Very Best Reads of 2024: Hilliard's Hat-Trick

With five days left in 2024, there's little chance I'll read and review another neglected book before the calendar turns... and so, ...

25 March 2024

Here's to Absent Chums

The Missing Chums Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop, [ c. 1960] 214 pages The fourth Hardy Boys book, I r...

27 May 2019

Gone Fishin' (without Frank and Joe Hardy)

The Phantom Freighter Franklin W. Dixon [pseud. Amy McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1958] 216 pages I think I read a...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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