The Dusty Bookcase

Murder — Queen High Bob Wade and Bill Miller Toronto: Harlequin, 1951 Over the years, the Dusty Bookcase has shared some very frightening co...

Satan as Lightning Basil King New York: Harper, 1929 280 pages Basil King is the only Canadian to have topped the year-end list of bestselli...

No surprise that I'm a devotee of Lost Ladies of Lit, "the podcast dedicated to dusting off books by forgotten women writers."...

Whispering City Horace Brown Pickering, ON: Global Publishing, 1947 190 pages Whispering City  may be Canada's very first film noir. Thi...

Am I right that 'A New England Thanksgiving' ranks amongst Bliss Carman's better-known poems? Whatever the case, I'm pretty...

For the new month, 'October' by Poet Laureate of the Home Edna Jaques. This version is taken from her 1946 Thomas Allen collection B...

And the Town Talked Martha Ostenso Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 159 pages The town is Bloomhill; the talk is of Elsbeth Payson. A few d...