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Showing posts with label True crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True crime. Show all posts
28 August 2023

One Non Blonde

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Incendiary Blonde Keith Edgar Toronto: National Publishing, 1945 126 pages When is a blonde not a blonde? When is a novel not a novel? Is a ...
24 July 2023

Average Leacock for the Average Man

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Winnowed Wisdom Stephen Leacock New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926 300 pages The author's sixteenth book of humour in as many years, one wonders...
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12 June 2019

The True Crime Book That Spawned an Industry

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The Black Donnellys Thomas P. Kelley Toronto: Harlequin, 1962 158 pages Oh you who hail from Ontario Know the tale of the Donnellys...
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26 November 2018

A Man Forgets His Identity (but not his manners)

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The Thread of Flame Basil King New York: Harper, 1920 351 pages I raced through this novel, caught up in its plot and hungry fo...
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01 May 2017

A Gangster Finds God

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Hooked Ernie Hollands with Doug Brendel Toronto: Mainroads Productions, 1987 A stolen car took me there. Hollywood was a grotesque p...
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03 July 2015

Boum!

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The Crime of Ovide Plouffe [Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe] Roger Lemelin [trans. Alan Brown] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1984 O...
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30 April 2015

The Murder of George Brown: He Died with Grit

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I could not let National Poetry Month pass without presenting verse by James Gay, Poet Laureate of Canada (self-proclaimed) and Master ...
19 June 2014

Misfortune Follows Reverend Knowles

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Robert E. Knowles is the very sort of fellow one would expect to have been the subject of a biography. I'm thinking here of those dr...