The Dusty Bookcase

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Uprooted Lubor Zink Toronto: Longmans Ca...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Psyche Phyllis Brett Young Toronto: Longmans...

I've been receiving compliments about the cover of  the new Ricochet Books reissue of Phyllis Brett Young's The Ravine . Praise ...

The Ravine Kendal Young [pseud Phyllis Brett Young] London: W.H. Allen, 1962 208 pages Young Barbara Grey "saved for simply ag...

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

Rx for Murder Jane Layhew Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1946 I've read Rx for Murder , but I'm not sure about anyone else; cert...

Edgar Andrew Collard seems to have been a pretty interesting fellow. A Montrealer armed with a M.A. in history from McGill, in 1942 he f...

Snow arrived this past weekend, bringing visions of sugar plums and reminding me of a stern, schoolmarmish rebuke uncovered in researchi...

Gambling with Fire David Montrose [pseud., Charles Ross Graham] Don Mills, ON: Longmans Canada, [1969] Until this year, I had n...

There will be some unpleasantness. This past week I spent a few hours volunteering at the semiannual St Marys Public Library boo...