http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/ The Golden Age of Detective Fiction Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:30:53 GMT Anita Hoffman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17358 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17358 As a locked room fan, you can imagine my surprise and delight when I had all but one of Hal's locked room recommendations. It could have gone either way, but Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:05:18 GMT Carola Dunn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17357 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17357 ... from Amazon Carola?s ?The Bloody Tower? and ?The Gunpowder Plot?.>> Enjoy, Enrique! Carola www.geocities.com/CarolaDunn/ Daisy Dalrymple Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:20:01 GMT Barry Ergang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17356 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17356 http://tinyurl.com/5k34dl Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:43:59 GMT Xavier Lechard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17355 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17355 I thought you might be interested in the following article from spiked: Middle-class murder: so much more palatable by Patrick West Why are so many murder Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:38:23 GMT halwhite http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17354 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17354 Curt: I couldn't agree more. Even though I didn't care for the story, I'll always remember the following quote from "The Blue Cross": "... another part of my Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:17:18 GMT Carole Shmurak http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17353 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17353 I read the entire article in the New Yorker last night. It really doesn't say a lot about the Father Brown stories, but does have quite a bit about 'The Man Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:24:12 GMT Enrique F. Bird http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17352 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17352 Carola and other friends, I have taken another step in practicing what I preach and have ordered from Amazon Carola?s ?The Bloody Tower? and ?The Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:05:18 GMT Carola Dunn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17351 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17351 ... Father Brown stories, I would surmise. Another area where he should be highly regarded, it seems to me, is as an essayist, whether one agrees with him or Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:49:10 GMT Taylor401306@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17350 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17350 In a message dated 07/05/2008 9:14:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I've heard that "Peter Gunn" was an attempt to adapt Will Eisner's "The Spirit" to TV.That Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:59:01 GMT Michael E. Grost http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17349 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17349 I've been trying to get a handle on the approaches of modern literary mystery writers (Ian Rankin, Reginald Hill) vs GA authors (say, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen). Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:49:41 GMT Martin Edwards http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17348 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17348 I agree with Curt's assessment. Another Gilbert book of similar vintage which I think is even better is The NIght of the Twelfth. The Body of a Girl is also Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:23:16 GMT vegetableduck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17347 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17347 A late, great effort by transitional Golden Age figure Michael Gilbert, who died just two years ago. The novel is written in the form of the police Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:52:28 GMT vegetableduck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17346 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17346 There's a lot of readers familiar with Chesterton only through his Father Brown stories, I would surmise. Another area where he should be highly regarded, it Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:18:57 GMT Michael E. Grost http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17345 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17345 I've only read the on-line abstract - will have to look up the whole article at the public library (don't subscribe to the New Yorker). One can see some Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:15:24 GMT Xavier Lechard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17344 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GAdetection/message/17344 Where can the whole article be found - apart from the paper edition of the New Yorker, that is? Friendly, Xavier