The Dusty Bookcase

This past Saturday, I joined a pubfull of people – yes, a pubfull – in downtown Ottawa to celebrate John Metcalf's 85th birthday. It wa...

A follow-up to last week's post on Hot Star . Alvin Schwartz's debut novel,  The Blowtop , was published in 1946 by Dial Press. It f...

Hot Star Robert W. Tracy [Alvin Schwartz] New York: Arco, 1952 179 pages Betty and Bob's honeymoon was a disaster, but don't blame t...

Daniel Issac Vernon Eaton was the father of novelist Evelyn Eaton, whose 1940 international bestseller  Quietly My Captain Waits  was review...

Abraham's Bosom Basil King New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918 54 pages A short story masquerading as a novella,  Abraham's Bosom ...

Jean Plaidy –  not her real name – wrote 191 novels.  Daughter of Satan  may be number 23, but I expect the authoress herself wouldn't ...

Arriving in bookstores as I write, the eighteenth Ricochet Books title.  Whispering City is based on the Quebec City film noir of the same ...