1. Thanks to Bill Pronzini, Bill Deeck’s review of Terror at Compass Lake, by Tech Davis, now includes cover images of all three of the author’s mysteries.

2. A few days ago Bill Pronzini asked for other mysteries that featured chauffeurs as detectives, narrators, or otherwise strongly involved in mystery fiction. I’m glad to say that there quite a few suggestions. Bill has replied now to tell us the one he had in mind, and he’s added one more to the relatively short list of such mystery fare. Check it out here.

3. A blog that I discovered not too long ago (yesterday) is worth the attention of everyone who’s reading this, especially since it covers much the same ground as Mystery*File.

   Which is to say vintage mystery fiction and movies, with occasional newer ones covered every so often to keep things fresh. In fact it’s called Traditional Mysteries, with a subtitle that explains more: “In which we focus our attention on the more traditional flavors of mystery fiction and film, with occasional side jaunts to explore anything else in the genre that looks interesting.”

   Bill Lengeman is the fellow behind it, and his blog is well worth the visit.

4. Dave Kehr’s latest column for the New York Times on movies recently released on DVD, mostly older ones, concentrates on the career and reawakening interest in the films of Dorothy Mackaill. This was spurred on in part, one might guess, by Walter Albert’s review of The Fighting Blade (1923), which appeared here on this blog not too long ago.