The Dusty Bookcase

The tenth Ricochet Books title is back from the printers and is now on its way to better bookstores. Given the series'  raison d'...

Violence sells but I'm not buying, which may be why it's taken me so long to see just how much it was used in pushing early Har...

"La surprise de l’automne", writes  Le Devoir critic Michel Bélair . Indeed, it is. Tomorrow sees publication of  Meurtre à...

Spring arrives, bringing a new issue of  Canadian Notes & Queries . Number 89 – for those keeping count – this one is devoted to Mon...

From Ottawa comes a new chapbook of hard-boiled epigrams drawn from the writings of one of our finest noir writers. The words this time...

The Spring issue of Maisonneuve hits the stands today. Flip it over and you'll find this on the back cover: ( cliquez pour agra...

Snapped yesterday at the offices of Véhicule Press, the new edition of David Montrose's The Body on Mount Royal . How new? So new ...

Audio of my recent interview with Nigel Beale can be found here . Lots of talk about Brian Moore, Ted Allan, News Stand Library, Véhi...

A pithy, yet passionate passage from David Montrose's  The Body on Mount Royal  (Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1953): I noticed she was w...

The Body on Mount Royal David Montrose [pseud. Charles Ross Graham] Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1953 First the good news: our private dick...

Murder Over Dorval David Montrose [pseud. Charles Ross Graham] Toronto: Collins White Circle, 1952 Early in this second David Montr...

My recent conversation with the charming Julie Wilson. Pulp novels, literary hoaxes, the Edwardian John Glassco, and the neglected and f...

Published in 1935 by les Éditions du Quotidien, a first edition by one of the most important Canadian writers of the twentieth century. I...