The Dusty Bookcase

Writing here last week , I described Syd Dyke as unappreciated. I stand by that word. Apart from a few pieces posted a couple of years...

Sixty-three years after it disappeared from drugstore spinner racks, Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street is finally making its way to bookst...

For your pleasure,  Jean Palardy  and  Arthur Burrows ' 1947  Montreal by Night . Filmed in glorious black and white, here is the ...

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

Die with Me, Lady Ronald Cocking Toronto: Harlequin, 1953 224 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my n...

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

The new edition of Canadian Notes & Queries lands, and with it comes another Dusty Bookcase sur papier . This time the spotlight pla...

There's no question that Al Palmer's Montreal Confidential (1949) was inspired by New York: Confidential! (1947), but who woul...

The Globe , 18 December 1909 William Briggs may be gone, but the publisher's words are as true today as they were a century ago. Books a...

Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street Al Palmer Toronto: New Stand Library, 1949 Sugar-Puss is Gisele Lepine — not Gisèle Lépine — a far...

Montreal Confidential Al Palmer Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 Readying for a trip to my hometown, I reach for this cheap little pa...