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Showing posts with label Thrillers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thrillers. Show all posts
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...
14 March 2023

James Moffatt Wins the Race

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The Marathon Murder James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1972 124 pages On January 12, 1972, Canadian writer James Moffatt appeared on...
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06 March 2023

The Great Canadian Author Photo and Bio?

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Purchased last week to treat myself. Lord knows I deserve it. Above is the cover of the first and only British edition of Hot Freeze by Mar...
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12 October 2022

Quebec City Noir

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Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City  may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...
30 May 2022

Walking in on Virginia Box and Baird Rodd

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The Girl From H.A.R.D.: Virginia Box and the "Unsatisfied" James Moffatt London: New English Library, 1974 112 pages  I first visi...
12 October 2021

A Shadow Moves Through a Shadowy Underworld

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The Shadow Arthur Stringer New York: Century, 1913 302 pages Time was when Jim Blake could pass unnoticed through the seedier side of New Yo...
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13 July 2021

Fumbling Towards Legacy

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Legacy of Fear Garnett Weston New York: W S Mill/William Morrow, 1950 245 pages The jacket illustration suggests a gothic romance, but  Lega...
02 July 2021

Have Bomb – Will Travel

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This Suitcase is Going to Explode Tom Ardies Calabasas, CA: Brash Books, 2021 220 pages Of all the books I've read in 2021, This Suitcas...