The Dusty Bookcase

It was six years ago yesterday that I began this exploration of the suppressed, ignored and forgotten in Canadian literature. Brian Moor...

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

Unlike Graham Greene, who never disowned his "entertainments," Brian refused to talk about his thrillers and in his later ye...

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...

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