The Dusty Bookcase

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 ...

Much of this past weekend was spent rereading Horace Brown's 1947 Whispering City ; this in preparing its return to print as the next Ri...

The Weak-Eyed Bat Collected Millar: The First Detectives Margaret Millar New York: Syndicate, 2017 My aunt and uncle had a cottage on ...

I don't mean to be an ass about this, particularly in light of such sad news, but do note that the New York Times' report on Robbie...

Published thirty years ago by McGill-Queen's University Press,  Silenced Sextet  received laudatory reviews, but not its due. It is an e...

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

Summertime and the listenin' is easy. What better time to enjoy David Montrose's The Body on Mount Royal , the very first Ricochet a...