Sun 12 Feb 2012
Herewith some items of interest, I hope, from here and there on the World Wide Web:
â— Coachwhip Publications, a “micropublisher” new to me, has already made enough early detective fiction available to keep me reading (and broke) for some time to come. Included in their mystery offerings are: Futrelle’s The Thinking Machine | A. J. Raffles, Gentleman Thief | Hamilton Cleek | Old Man in the Corner | Uncle Abner Mysteries | Thornley Colton, Blind Detective | Max Carrados | Thorpe Hazell Mysteries | The Legal Exploits of Randolph Mason | Addison Kent Mysteries | Complete Adventures of Romney Pringle | Flaxman Low | Luther Trant, Psychological Detective | Average Jones | and many many more.
â— Bill Lengeman has added a monthly podcast to his Traditional Mysteries blog. The first one is a Round Table discussion between several bloggers taking on the subject:
“How Much Sherlock is Too Much?”
â— Curt Evans and Patrick Ohl are having a multi-part discussion on the latter’s blog in which they discuss in detail the various characters in And Then There Were None, one of Agatha Christie’s best known novels. The most recent of these posts covers General Macarthur. (When I say in detail, I mean it.)
â— As I’ve mentioned before, you can listen to every episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater online, a great way to spend part of your own evening, or any time of the day, for that matter. Even better, earlier this week Todd Mason provided links on his blog to a long list of other online archives of “Radio Drama from the 1960s to Now.” (Scroll down.) Some are familiar to me, others not.
February 13th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Steve, thanks for the tip with Coachwhip (ouch !!), I put that immediately on my favorites.
Got an answer by Greg Shepard today, regarding W.R. Burnett.
Keep up the good work on this blog (and work it is), it is always a source of knowledge, and of good books to read, or good sites to visit on the web.
The Doc
February 13th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Thanks for plugging our podcast.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:47 am
Bill
It sounds as though you all had a great time doing it. And it was a lot of fun to listen to as well. It was the first time I’d heard any of your voices.
February 14th, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Thanks for the mention! I personally also had a great time doing the podcast, and I eagerly look forward to the next edition. 🙂
February 15th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Just finished doing Rogers the butler, Steve! Thanks for mentioning Coachwhip. Their Connington reprints should be out soon and there are others I am going to be working on with them.
February 20th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Coachwhip’s reprints of some of the Cleek of the Forty Faces books inspired me to revive a project from about a decade ago — collecting and reprinting the previously uncollected magazine stories (Cassell’s Saturday Journal and Short Stories Magazine). None of these stories appear in the books. With any luck this project will appear in 2014 courtesy of George Vanderburgh’s Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. This will be the centennial of author Thomas W. Hanshew’s death.
February 20th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
It sounds well worth waiting for, Randy!