The Locked Room: Classic Mysteries in Review

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

If A Body Meet A Body, George Malcolm-Smith, Reviewed by Margaret Redfern, April 26, 1959


From the Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26, 1959:






Posted by Tony Renner at 8:55 AM 1 comment:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Newer Posts Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2022 (1)
    • ►  November (1)
  • ▼  2016 (1)
    • ▼  March (1)
      • If A Body Meet A Body, George Malcolm-Smith, Revie...
  • ►  2015 (15)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (5)
  • ►  2014 (19)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (6)

Popular Posts

  • Cat of Many Tails, Ellery Queen, Reviewed by Anthony Boucher
    By Anthony Boucher, New York Times, October 9, 1949. “A detective novel," wrote S.S. Van Dine in 1928 should contain no long descri...
  • Halfway House (1936) by Ellery Queen
        Just finished listening to Ellery Queen's 1936 Halfway House , which I'd rename Murder Can Be A Drag . SPOILER The killer dresse...
  • Murder is an Art, Michael Innes
  • The G-String Murders, Gypsy Rose Lee
    When The G-String Murders (1941) hit the bookstore shelves, Gypsy Rose Lee, then only 28 years old, shined as the brightest start in burle...
  • The Gyrth Chalice Mystery (aka Look to the Lady), Margery Allingham
    Margery Allingham's The Gryth Chalice Mystery (1931), marking the third appearance of Albert Campion, features the seemingly inevita...

Evidence

  • Vintage Pop Fictions
    Vampirella Archives vol 3 - *Vampirella Archives vol 3* collects issues 15 to 21 of the original *Vampirella* comic book when it was still published by Warren Publications. These iss...
    2 hours ago
  • Type M for Murder
    I Hired a PI - the conclusion - By Catherine Dilts My previous post on Type M for Murder (11/5/24) described the events that led to hiring a real-life private investigator. Quick recap –...
    8 hours ago
  • Mystery Fanfare
    THE CHELSEA DETECTIVE SEASON 3 NEWS! - Well this is *good news!* I've been waiting for *the return of The Chelsea Detective*, one of my favorite detective shows. *Acorn TV* has announced that t...
    15 hours ago
  • Mystery*File
    Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading / Diary Review: DASHIELL HAMMETT “$106,000 Blood Money.” - DASHIELL HAMMETT “$106,000 Blood Money.” First published in Black Mask, May 1927. Collected in The Big Nightmare (Random House, 1966). Sequel to “The Bi...
    15 hours ago
  • My Reader's Block
    Death for a Dietitian - *Death for a Dietitian* (1988) by E. X. Giroux A departure novel for Giroux--her usual sleuth barrister Robert Forsythe is buried in cases and so when ...
    20 hours ago
  • Ontos
    Miscellaneous Monday—Number Thirty-nine - *WHEN IT COMES to thorough research, especially with regard to detective fiction, today's author has proven quite capable. Acting as a sort of literary arc...
    21 hours ago
  • Criminal Element
    On How Art Experts Make the Perfect Literary Detectives by Sarah Jost, Author of The Estate - Clearly, when creating his famous protagonist Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology who finds clues in famous artworks to uncover international ...
    1 day ago
  • Promoting Crime Fiction by Lizzie Hayes
    ‘In Harm’s Way’ by Judith Cutler - *Published by Joffe Books, 24 May 2024. ISBN: 978-1-83526590-1 (PB)* *Originally Published 24 March 2008 as Still Waters* Simon Gates has recently take...
    1 day ago
  • 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
    Hemlock Bay...and what comes next? - I'm feeling *slightly* liberated just at the moment, for a number of reasons. First, I'm very pleased with the reaction of critics and readers to *Hemlo...
    1 day ago
  • The Dusty Bookcase
    There's a New Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street - Whenever I'm asked to talk about Ricochet Books, I make a point of mentioning Al Palmer's *Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street*. The title never fails to ra...
    1 day ago
  • Beneath the Stains of Time
    And Then There Were Nyan (2024) by A.Z. Ruin - So for the past three, four months, I've been reading, rating and reviewing impossible crime novels and short stories that were nominated in the first ro...
    1 day ago
  • Tipping My Fedora
    7. Black Tuesday, with Barry Forshaw, Craig Ian Mann and Sheldon Hall - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yqug2-1708e51 Sergio previews the UK Blu-ray release of the 1954 drama Black Tuesday, which is being released today ...
    1 day ago
  • Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?
    Out and About by Allison Symes - *Image Credit: Images from the ACW Autumn Gathering Day were taken by me, Allison Symes. Many thanks to Janet Williams, my lovely editor at Chandler’s For...
    1 day ago
  • In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
    Death Rites (2024) by Sarah Ward - Jericho, New England. Carla James has joined the archaeology department of Jericho University, emigrating from England to try and rebuild her life followin...
    1 day ago
  • The Rap Sheet
    Revue of Reviewers: 11-17-24 - *Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more.*
    1 day ago
  • The Cozy Mystery List Blog
    We Had a Ticket to Ride… - We just got back from visiting our daughter, son-in-law, and four year old granddaughter in the Washington, DC area. We had a great time! We’ve been fortun...
    1 day ago
  • Small Crimes
    My promises about PARIAH - Several promises I can make about Pariah. 1. It's as "hell-on-wheels" a crime novel as you'll find 2. Nothing I've written is as opposite to my...
    4 days ago
  • Killer Covers
    Another Look: “Dead Men’s Plans” -
    5 days ago
  • The Passing Tramp
    Spirit Messages from MAGA World: The Surly Sullen Bell/Lost Lake (1962), by Russell Kirk - Michigan writer and intellectual *Russell Kirke* (1918-1994) has been called the Forgotten Father of American Conservatism and the greatest twentieth-centu...
    2 weeks ago
  • Alpha-60 Books
    Who Dies There? (James Duff, 1956) - Graphic Books has become one of my favourite pulp publishers in recent years. I love their dark covers, and it happened more than once that I would buy the...
    5 weeks ago
  • Writers No One Reads
    No One Reads Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954). But anyone else reading his Java Head today because of… - No One Reads Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954). But anyone else reading his *Java Head* today because of the story in this Granta piece by Christian Lorent...
    4 months ago
  • Death Can Read
    Paul Halter: The White Lady (LE MYSTERE DE LA DAME BLANCHE) - trad. John Pugmire. - Locked Room International , August 2020 - The novel in question is the latest in the series dedicated to the second of Paul Halter's characters: in fact it was published in 2020. The stra...
    4 months ago
  • Tony Renner: Artist
    Bob Dylan -
    8 months ago
  • Pretty Sinister Books
    The Glass Heart - Marty Holland - Down on his luck Curt Blair is waiting out a rainstorm in a “ritzy hash joint” just outside of Hollywood, USA when he steals a fancy camel hair overcoat ...
    1 year ago
  • In Reference to Murder
    Media Murder for Monday - It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news: THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES Roundtable Entertainment has green...
    1 year ago
  • Pfui
    "The Doorbell Rang," Previewed by Lewis Nichols, New York Times, October 24, 1965 - From the *New York Times*, October 24, 1965: "Nero has been solving sinister problems since "Fer-de-Lance" in 1934. "The Doorbell Rang" is the 30th Ner...
    2 years ago
  • Ivebeenreadinglately
    On John Wyndham's "cosy catastrophe" novels (from 2008) - *I wrote this in late 2008 on spec for a publication, but it was never published. My notes remind me that after writing it I came across a post on the Peng...
    2 years ago
  • Classic Mysteries
    The Agatha Awards - From somewhere in Cyberspace, the winners of this year's Agatha Awards for mystery writing were announced this evening at a virtual convention of mystery w...
    3 years ago
  • The Post Modern Pulp Blog
    New Release: THEY KILL FOR GOLD - So, my first new book is out, a fantasy novella that plays heavily into the 80's style, tabletop fantasy role-playing games media tie-in novel fiction vi...
    3 years ago
  • a hot cup of pleasure
    A New Home @ WordPress - Thanks for your visits and encouragement over the years. The blog has now been shifted to WordPress: https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/ Please ...
    4 years ago
  • Crime Always Pays
    On Writing and Jazz - Set during the Jazz Age, THE LAMMISTERS is a novel that plunders the literary canon in the manner of a starved child let loose in a sweetshop. Of all its ...
    4 years ago
  • Mysterious Press
    Ben Crandel Returns - Murray Sinclair's Ben Crandel series makes a return in print and ebook formats.
    5 years ago
  • Detectives Beyond Borders
    Linwood Barclay, Ross Macdonald, and me: What I shot and thought at Harrogate, Part II - *Linwood Barclay signs a book foran adoring fan. Photo by PeterRozovsky by special agreementwith Detectives Beyond Borders.* I’ve never been able to g...
    6 years ago
  • Vanished Into Thin Air
    Hake Talbot : Rim of the Pit, 1944 - Henning Nelms was born in Baltimore in 1900. He taught dramatic Literature at Middlebury College and Pennsylvania State University, and conducted several t...
    7 years ago
  • Past Offences
    Christmas has come early… - … courtesy of the British Library. Two more sleeps before opening though.Filed under: Witness Statements
    7 years ago
  • Hi-Fi Sci-Fi
    Spider-Man Comes Out to Aunt May - From July 2002, an excerpt from a larger piece: A batch of old favorite comic books picked up at a Labor Day tailgate sale last year led to a conversation...
    7 years ago
  • Classic Mystery Hunt
    Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford - [image: Image result for rise of the robots book] When acquired by FB for billions of dollars Watsapp employed 55 employees, Youtube had 150 odd employees w...
    7 years ago
  • Book Dirt
    Jesus and Caligari: a Review of Upton Sinclair’s They Call Me Carpenter - They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair I confess that I never knew much about Upton Sinclair beyond the fact that he wrote the meat-packing industry exp...
    7 years ago
  • Ed Gorman's blog
    Catching up with Max Allan Collins - *1. Tell us about your current novel. * There are a couple of things that will become available soon. One is the complete version of the ROAD TO PERDIT...
    8 years ago
  • MYSTERIES in PARADISE
    -
Show 10 Show All
Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.