The Dusty Bookcase

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

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Showing posts with label Mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mysteries. Show all posts
22 April 2025

The Man with the Midas Touch

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Sword of Desire Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 176 pages As far as I can tell, "Fort Crime!" is the first A...
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22 March 2025

Tumbling Towards Mystery

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The Stone Cottage Mystery Joyce Boyle Toronto: Macmillan, 1961 151 pages A big city girl made unhappy by her family's move to a small to...
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25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

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The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...
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20 January 2025

The Boy Who Cried Truth

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The Calgary Herald , 26 October 1963 The Weird World of Wes Beattie John Norman Harris New York: Harper & Row, 1963 216 pages Wes Beatti...
01 October 2024

A Feminine Jimmie Dale?

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The White Moll Frank L. Packard New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 306 page s Walt Disney failed to interest NBC in  Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gr...
12 August 2024

Murder at Expo 67: A Complete Mystery Novel?

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A short follow-up to last week's post on Janet Gregory Vermandel's So Long at the Fair . So Long at the Fair,  Janet Gregory Vermand...
06 August 2024

An Expo 67 Murder Mystery?

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So Long at the Fair Janet Gregory Vermandel New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968 186 pages Canadian publishers really messed up with Expo 67;  McClell...
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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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