Showing posts with label 1940s crime fiction and mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1940s crime fiction and mysteries. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding x 2: Widow's Mite and Who's Afraid?

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9781944520342 Stark House Press, 2018 263 pp paperback As always, I have to begin by thanking the lovely people at Stark House Press...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Crooked House, by Agatha Christie

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9780553350548 Bantam, 1999 originally published 1949 215 pp hardcover " I think people more often kill those they love than th...
Monday, March 13, 2017

The Iron Gates, by Margaret Millar

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0380000156 Avon, 1974 originally published 1945 191 pp paperback It was like Christmas here a few days ago when I moved some stuff ...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

*" I was born lonely, I guess" -- Dark Passage, by David Goodis

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  9781853753091 Prion Books, 1999 (part of the Film Ink series) (originally published 1946) 244 pp paperback "There's ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

*Phantom Lady, by Cornell Woolrich

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0743423739 iBooks/Simon and Schuster, 2001 originally published 1942 (written as William Irish) 291 pp paperback " What is th...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

back to the past #17: Death in the Cards, by Ann T. Smith

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9781434407382 Wildside books, 2010 originally published 1945, Phoenix Press 256 pp paperback I love these Wildside editions -- I ha...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

pure (icky) pulp: Solomon's Vineyard, by Jonathan Latimer

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159640168 Black Mask, 2009 (reprint) [originally published 1941] 132 pp paperback With the call to read banned books about to start...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

*back to the past, #16: The Bus Station Murders, by Louisa Revell

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Macmillan, 1947 183 pp hardcover <==  The very first thing you might notice about this book is its ugly cover. When you compare it...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

back to the past #15: The Fifth Dagger, by Dorothy Quick

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1947 Charles Scribner's Sons 202 pp hardcover " She always got what she wanted, but when she had it, she destroyed it....
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

back to the past #14: Murder in the Mist, by Zelda Popkin

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00735103909 Replica Books, 2001 originally published 1940, Lippincott 286 pp paperback " A country inn is a percolator. News s...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

back to the past: Motto for Murder, by Merlda Mace (1943)

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Julian Messner, Inc., 1943 213 pp hardcover Merlda Mace is the pseudonym of Madeleine McCoy, but beyond that, I can find very little i...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

David Goodis: Nightfall

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0679734740 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1991 originally published 1947 139 pp paperback " The road he had selected could be the...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

another book nobody's ever heard of: Death and the Pleasant Voices, by Mary Fitt

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0486246035 Dover, 1984 originally published 1946, by Michael Joseph, Ltd. 208 pp paperback Now, here's something entirely diffe...