The Dusty Bookcase

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...

A better year than last, right? I got out more, raised pints in pubs, saw my daughter, and spent seven days touring Quebec City and the East...

The first book to appear under his own name, Horace Brown's Whispering City is the rarest of things: a novelization of a Canadian fea...

A quick follow-up to yesterday's post with something spotted earlier today. Above is the April 1948 debut of Original Detective Sto...