The Dusty Bookcase

The Missing Chums Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop, [ c. 1960] 214 pages The fourth Hardy Boys book, I r...

Montreal Customs House, c. 1916 I've been on something of a Constance Beresford-Howe kick this past week, all to do with her 1947 novel...

Of This Day's Journey Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947 240 pages A second novel, Of This Day's Journey followed ...

Son of a Meech: The Best Brian Mulroney Jokes Mark Breslin, ed. Toronto: Ballantine, 1991 113 pages News of Brian Mulroney's death last ...

Hardscrabble; or, The Fall of Chicago Major [John] Richardson New York: Pollard & Moss, 1888 113 pages A forgotten novel about forgotten...

Figure It Out for Yourself James Hadley Chase [René Raymond] Toronto: Harlequin, 1957 Cover copy informs that the plot has something to do w...

Being an addendum to the recent post on  The Translation of a Savage  by Gilbert Parker. Hollywood has blessed us with twenty-three adaptati...