Sunday, September 15, 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Betsy Byars, on writing:
When I type a title page,
I hold it and I look at it and I think,
I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
- Betsy Byars.
I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
- Betsy Byars.
Recommended reading - Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Edited by Charles Ardai.
Published by Bbs Pub Corp.
Published in 1995.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0883657716
ISBN-13: 978-0883657713
Description:
Contents:
Published in 1995.
Hardcover.
ISBN-13: 978-0883657713
A collection of mysteries from a host of
best-selling mystery writers features tales by Dick Francis, Graham Greene,
Lawrence Bloch, Sarah Paretsky, Loren D. Estleman, John Lutz, Arthur Conan
Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and others.
Introduction, by Robert Bloch; Foreword, by
John Lutz; Out the window, by Lawrence Block; Major crimes, by Loren D.
Estleman; Silent warning, by William J. Carroll, Jr.; The Third Man, by Graham
Greene; The Cross of Lorraine, by Isaac Asimov; Nameless Enemy, by Miriam Allen
DeFord; Tragedy of a Handkerchief, by Michael Innes; UNC Foils Show Foe, by
John Jakes; Dangerows Widows, by Mignon G. Eberhardt; Ride the Lightning, by
John Lutz; Till Tuesday, by Jeremiah Healy; The Day of the Losers, by Dick
Francis; The Case of the Pietro Andromache, by Sara Paretsky; Susu and the 8:30
Ghost, by Lillian Jackson Braun; The Investigation of Things, by Charles
Aardai; The Trailor Murder Mystery, by Abraham Lincoln; The Importance of
Trifles, by Avram Davidson; The Double-Barrelled Detective Story, by Mark
Twain; The Adventure of the Oval Window, by John H. Ddirckx; Your Appointment
is Cancelled, by Antonia Fraser; Le Chateau de L'Arsenic, by Georges Simenon;
The Nine Mile Walk, by Harry Kemelman; Crime in Rhyme, by Robert Bloch; The
Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; The Man with the Twisted Lip, by Arthur
Conan Doyle.
Born on this day – Carroll John Daly:
Credits:
Books:
Better Corpses (1940); Man in the Shadows (1928); Mr. Strang (1936); Murder at Our House (1950); Murder from the East (1935); Murder Won’t Wait (1933); Ready to Burn (1951); Tainted Power (1931); The Amateur Murderer (1933); The Emperor of Evil (1937); The Hidden Hand (1929); The Mystery of the Smoking Gun (1936); The Snarl of the Beast (1927); The Tag Murders (1930); The Third Murderer (1931); The White Circle (1926).
Movies and television:
Ticket to a Crime (1934).
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