The Dusty Bookcase

Sword of Desire Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 176 pages As far as I can tell, "Fort Crime!" is the first A...

Eyes of a Gypsy John Murray Gibbon Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1926 255 pages This past Saturday marked the sesquicentennial of John Murra...

Thomas D'Arcy McGee 13 April 1825, Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland 7 April 1868, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada RIP Related posts: 'O Ma...

I was on my lunch break when I first read of Jay Gatsby's death. This was in the back room of the Rockland Centre Sam the Record Man. Tw...

Say what you will about Satan, he's no dummy. I think I'm right about this, but am not sure. He had no place in my family's plac...

An addendum to Saturday's post on  The Stone Cottage Mystery . Emily Joyce Boyle was born on April 6, 1901, missing that year's cens...