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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
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01 September 2020
A Red in the White House?
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Their Man in the White House Tom Ardies Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 198 pages One of the wealthiest men in the Uni...
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16 June 2020
Just Kids
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Perilous Passage Arthur Mayse New York: Pocket, 1950 233 pages A semi-conscious man looks about a boat's cabin as a woman press...
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20 May 2020
Phyllis Brett Young's Ricochet
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Copies of Phyllis Brett Young's The Ravine , the latest Ricochet Book, were delivered yesterday. I see their arrival as anothe...
21 October 2019
Number 43 in a Series
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The 43rd Canadian general election takes place today. The first I remember was the twenty-ninth – October 30, 1972 – which Pierre Trudea...
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07 October 2019
George Segal Gets His Man
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Final words on Tom Ardies' Kosygin is Coming (aka Russian Roulette ). It's a rare thing for a Canadian thriller to be ada...
01 October 2019
A Russian is Coming! A Russian is Coming!
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Russian Roulette [ Kosygin is Coming ] Tom Ardies Toronto: PaperJacks, 1975 207 pages Tom Ardies' thrillers fall into two nea...
18 July 2019
Reviving a Searching Novel about Drug Addiction
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Kenneth Orvis' The Damned and the Destroyed arrives in bookstores this week. The fourteenth in Ricochet Books' series of ...
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02 April 2019
The Return of Jimmie Dale, Alias Gray Seal
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Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal Michael Howard n.p.: The Author, 2017 375 pages My final year as a trick-or-treater was spent walk...
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19 March 2019
Nature as the Devil's Playground
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The Ravine Kendal Young [pseud Phyllis Brett Young] London: W.H. Allen, 1962 208 pages Young Barbara Grey "saved for simply ag...
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04 September 2018
Familiar to Hundreds (including Mike Myers?)
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Doors of the Night Frank L. Packard Toronto: Copp Clark, 1922 297 pages The hero of this novel is a young man named Billy Kane. Rai...
16 October 2017
A Great War Veteran's Pre-War Thriller
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Black Feather Benge Atlee New York: Scribners, 1939 345 page s The weapons Britain is supplying to its Arab allies are somehow endi...
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