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Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Novels. Show all posts
24 July 2025

Sunshine Scandals of a Little Town

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A View of the Town Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] Toronto: Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1954 269 pages There is no town of Inverness on Nova ...
16 June 2025

A Man Reaps What He Sows

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The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J.C. Stead Toronto: Musson , 1916 347 pages The first edition is bound in boards readi...
10 June 2025

Looking Back on Looking Forward

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The Daily Witness , 16 May 1913 An addendum to last week's post on Looking Forward by Hugh Pedley . Looking Forward  features cub repor...
26 May 2025

On an Eminent Author's Lost Film

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A brief addendum to last week's post on Basil King's 1912 novel The Street Called Straight .    Seven Basil King novels have made it...
19 May 2025

The Long and Winding Street

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The Street Called Straight By the author of The Inner Shrine [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1912 415 pages Olivia Guion seems a most dislik...
13 May 2025

John Craig's Tuesday Night Movie: "When was the last time you saw a good film about a kidnapping?"

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An addendum to last week's post on If You want to See Your Wife Again... by John Craig . "When was the last time you saw a good mo...
05 May 2025

"A good kidnapping story always has wide appeal."

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If You Want to See Your Wife Again... John Craig London: Cassell, 1973 223 pages Struggling writer Dan Cramer once had a good gig. He spent ...