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Andy Ihnatko, on writing:
Writing is hard.
That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things.
And why you have a right to be immensely proud
when you finish something.
- Andy Ihnatko.
Recommended reading - Fifty Best Mysteries (2004)
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Fifty Best Mysteries
Edited by Eleanor Sullivan.
Published by Da Capo Press.
Paperback.
Published in 2004.
ISBN-10: 078671347X
ISBN-13: 978-0786713479
Description:
Fifty Best Mysteries is a Who’s Who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine over a range of fifty years, this book is a treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere. As editor Eleanor Sullivan writes, “I took the task by decades and decided to go after solid and entertaining stories by regular and significant contributors, stories that reflected the time in which they were written and the best work being produced in that decade.” To this end, Sullivan has collected an astounding array of talent, from early works by John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to later selections by Patricia Highsmith, Robert Bloch, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, and Simon Brett that appeared over the next two decades.
Contents: The clue of the red wig / John
Dickson Carr — Lost star / C. Daly King — The Bloomsbury wonder / Thomas Burke
— Dressing-up / W. R. Burnett — Malice domestic / Philip MacDonald — I can find
my way out / Ngaio Marsh — The fourth degree / Hugh Pentecost — Midnight
adventure / Michael Arlen — A study in white / Nicholas Blake — The phantom
guest / Frederick Irving Anderson — As simple as ABC / Ellery Queen — Money to
burn / Margery Allingham — The gentlest of brothers / David Alexander — One-way
street / Anthony Armstrong — Murder at the dog show / Mignon G. Eberhart —
Always trust a cop / Octavus Roy Cohen — The withered heart / Jean Potts — The
girl who married a monster / Anthony Boucher — Between eight and eight / C. S.
Forester — Knowing what I know now / Barry Perowne — Change of climate / Ursula
Curtiss — Life in our time / Robert Bloch — The special gift / Celia Fremlin —
A neat and tidy job / George Harmon Coxe — Run—if you can / Charlotte Armstrong
— Line of communication / Andrew Garve — Danger at Deerfawn / Dorothy B. Hughes
— The man who understood women / A. H. Z. Carr — Revolver / Avram Davidson —
The eternal chase / Anthony Gilbert — Reasons unknown / Stanley Ellin — Three
ways to rob a bank / Harold R. Daniels — The perfect servant / Helen Nielsen —
The marked man / David Ely — Flowers that bloom in the spring / Julian Symons —
A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre — Paul Broderick’s man / Thomas Walsh — When
nothing matters / Florence V. Mayberry — This is death / Donald E. Westlake — Woodrow
Wilson’s necktie / Patricia Highsmith — The jackal and the tiger / Michael
Gilbert — The fix / Robert Twohy — One moment of madness / Edward D. Hoch —
Loopy / Ruth Rendell — The plateau / Clark Howard — The butchers / Peter
Lovesey — Burning bridges / James Powell — A good turn / Robert Barnard — Clap
hands, there goes Charlie / George Baxt — Big boy, little boy / Simon Brett.
Born on this day – F. Richard Jones:
F. Richard Jones
Director
Writer
Producer
September 7, 1893 –
December 14, 1930
Credits:
A Game Old
Knight (1915); A Love Riot (1916); All Night Long (1924); Along Came Auntie
(1926); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Are Married Policemen Safe? (1918);
Asleep at the Switch (1923); Baby Clothes (1926); Bad Boy (1925); Be Reasonable
(1921); Be Your Age (1926); Boys Will Be Joys (1925); Bring Home the Turkey
(1927); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Bulldog Drummond (1929); Buried Treasure
(1926); By Heck (1921); Caught in a Park (1915); Caught in the Act (1915);
Charley My Boy! (1926); Chasing the Chaser (1925); Crazy Like a Fox (1926);
Cupid's Boots (1925); Dizzy Daddies (1926); Dog Shy (1926); Don Key (Son of
Burro) (1926); Down on the Farm (1920); East of the Water Plug (1924); Feet of
Mud (1924); Flickering Youth (1924); Flying Pat (1920); Galloping Bungalows
(1924); Galloping Ghosts (1928); Gee Whiz (1920); Get 'Em Young (1926); Giddy,
Gay, and Ticklish (1915); Good Cheer (1926); Gussle, the Golfer (1914);
Gussle's Day of Rest (1915); Gymnasium Jim (1922); Her First Mistake (1918);
Her Marble Heart (1916); Her Painted Hero (1915); His Hereafter (1916); His
Last False Step (1919); His Uncle Dudley (1917); Home Made Movies (1922); Inbad
the Sailor (1923); Innocent Husbands (1925); Isn't Life Terrible? (1925); It
Pays to Exercise (1918); Lazy Days (1929); Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924);
Lizzies of the Field (1924); Long Fliv the King (1926); Love 'Em and Weep
(1927); Love, Honor and Behave! (1920); Love's False Faces (1919); Love's Sweet
Piffle (1924); Ma and Pa (1922); Madame Mystery (1926); Mama Behave (1926);
Mary, Queen of Tots (1925); Mickey (1918); Mighty Like a Moose (1926); Molly O'
(1921); Monkey Business (1926); Moonlight and Noses (1925); Never Too Old
(1919); Nip and Tuck (1923); No Man's Law (1927); No One to Guide Him (1915);
On Patrol (1922); On the Front Page (1926); One Cylinder Love (1923); One Hour
Married (1927); One Spooky Night (1924); One Wild Ride (1925); Picking Peaches
(1924); Pills of Peril (1916); Pitfalls of a Big City (1923); Raggedy Rose
(1926); Reilly's Wash Day (1919); Riders of the Purple Cows (1924); Romeo and
Juliet (1924); Rough and Ready (1923); Saucy Madeline (1918); Scarem Much
(1924); Seeing the World (1927); Shanghaied Lovers (1924); She Loved Him Plenty
(1918); She Needed a Doctor (1917); Shivering Spooks (1926); Should Husbands
Pay? (1926); Should Men Walk Home? (1927); Should Sailors Marry? (1925);
Skylarking (1923); Sleuths (1918); Smile Please (1924); Someone to Love (1928);
Son of a Gun (1918); Starvation Blues (1925); Step Forward (1922); Suzanna
(1923); Tell 'Em Nothing (1926); Telling Whoppers (1926); Ten Dollars or Ten
Days (1924); Ten Years Old (1927); That Springtime Feeling (1915); The Battle
Royal (1918); The Big Killing (1928); The Cannon Ball Express (1924); The
Caretaker's Daughter (1925); The Cat's Meow (1924); The Country Flapper (1922);
The Crossroads of New York (1922); The Dare-Devil (1923); The Dentist (1919);
The Extra Girl (1923); The First 100 Years (1924); The Foolish Age (1919); The
Fourth Alarm (1926); The Gaucho (1927); The Ghost in the Garret (1921); The
Great Vacuum Robbery (1915); The Half-Back of Notre Dame (1924); The Hollywood
Kid (1924); The Judge (1916); The Lion and the Souse (1924); The Nickel-Hopper
(1926); The Reel Virginian (1924); The Sea Squawk (1925); The Shriek of Araby (1923);
The Speakeasy (1919); The Village Smithy (1919); The Water Hole (1928); The
Water Nymph (1912); The Way of All Pants (1927); Their Social Splash (1915);
Those Bitter Sweets (1915); Those College Girls (1915); Three Foolish Weeks
(1924); Thundering Fleas (1926); Trying to Get Along (1919); Two Tough
Tenderfeet (1918); Two-Time Mama (1927); Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926); Unfriendly
Enemies (1925); Up in Alf's Place (1919); Wall Street Blues (1924); Wandering
Papas (1926); Wandering Waistlines (1924); What's the World Coming To (1926);
When Summer Comes (1922); Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? (1923); Why
Beaches Are Popular (1919); Why Girls Say No (1927); Wife Tamers (1926); Wild
Papa (1925); Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926); Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919);
Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925); Your Own Back Yard (1925); Yukon Jake (1924).
Born on this day – George Waggner:
George Waggner
Actor
Director
Producer
Writer
September 7, 1894 - December 11, 1984
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