The Dusty Bookcase

Six editions of The Pyx , beginning with the very first paperback edition from Fawcett's Crest Books imprint. Published in 1960, its c...

The Pyx John Buell New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959 174 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritt...

Queen's Park, Toronto, 1910 James Gay (1810-1891) was a gunsmith, a locksmith, a carpenter and an innkeeper; but more than all th...

The first book to appear under his own name, Horace Brown's Whispering City is the rarest of things: a novelization of a Canadian fea...

A quick follow-up to yesterday's post with something spotted earlier today. Above is the April 1948 debut of Original Detective Sto...

The Penthouse Killings Horace Brown Toronto: News Stand Library, 1950 157 pages This review now appears, revised and re...

Relations and Complications H.H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1929 Bibliographer M. Clark Chambers lists R...