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Ann Patchett, on writing:

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
- Ann Patchett.

Recommended reading - One Across, Two Down

One Across, Two Down

by Ruth Rendell

Filmed as Diary of the Dead (1976), directed by Arvin Brown.

Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.

First published 1971.

ASIN: 0375704949

ISBN-10: 9780375704949

ISBN-13: 978-0375704949

Description:

Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now – and she will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley sets aside his crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever...

In One Across, Two Down, master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose strained sanity and stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into a killer afraid of his own shadow.  Mischievously plotted, smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two Down is a dark delight – classic Rendell.

"The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." – Time.

Born on this day – Minta Durfee:

Minta Durfee

Actress

October 1, 1889 – September 9, 1975

Credits:

Portnoy's Complaint (1972); The Steagle (1971); What's the Matter with Helen? (1971); Willard (1971); Hollywood Horror House (1970); Mod Squad (1970); They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969); The Love God? (1969); Funny Girl (1968); Never a Dull Moment (1968); The Power (1968); The Gnome-Mobile (1967); Caprice (1967); Batman (1966–1967); The Fugitive (1966); Death Valley Days (1958–1966); The Singing Nun (1966); Green Acres (1965); When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965); Ship of Fools (1965); Mister Ed (1961–1965); How to Murder Your Wife (1965); Fate Is the Hunter (1964); Shock Treatment (1964); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963); My Six Loves (1963); Stoney Burke (1963); The Manchurian Candidate (1962); The Notorious Landlady (1962); All Fall Down (1962); The Rifleman (1962); The Young Savages (1961); Posse from Hell (1961); The Ann Sothern Show (1961); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1960); Beloved Infidel (1959); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Sound and the Fury (1959); Auntie Mame (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1958); Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); Peyton Place (1957); Pal Joey (1957); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); The Wayward Bus (1957); The Buster Keaton Story (1957); The Great Man (1956); Hollywood or Bust (1956); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); Noah's Ark (1956); Come Next Spring (1956); Artists and Models (1955); Illegal (1955); The Last Command (1955); To Catch a Thief (1955); How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); The Atomic Kid (1954); Human Desire (1954); My Dog Rusty (1948); The Son of Rusty (1947); Eve Knew Her Apples (1945); The Chance of a Lifetime (1943); Blondie for Victory (1942); The Man Who Returned to Life (1942); The Miracle Kid (1941); How Green Was My Valley (1941); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); Rollin' Home to Texas (1940); Glamour for Sale (1940); The Man with Nine Lives (1940); Naughty Marietta (1935); Skinner's Dress Suit (1926); Mickey (1918); The Cabaret (1918); Ambrose's Cup of Woe (1916); The Other Man (1916); His Wife's Mistakes (1916); Bright Lights (1916); The Great Pearl Tangle (1916); Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915); Saved by Wireless (1915); Fickle Fatty's Fall (1915); Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915); Toplitsky and Company (1915); He Wouldn't Stay Down (1915); Toplitsky and Company (1915); Toplitsky and Company (Droppington's Family Tree) (1915); Droppington's Devilish Deed (1915); Ambrose's Fury (1915); A One Night Stand (1915); Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915); That Little Band of Gold (1915); Ambrose's Little Hatchet (1915); Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (1915); Fatty's Reckless Fling (1915); Hearts and Planets (1915); A Bird's a Bird (1915); Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915); Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915); Love, Speed and Thrills (1915); Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914); Fatty's Magic Pants (1914); Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914); Leading Lizzie Astray (1914); The Sea Nymphs (1914); Fatty's Wine Party (1914); Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); An Incompetent Hero (1914); Lovers' Post Office (1914); Zip, the Dodger (1914); Hello, Mabel (1914); Fatty Again (1914); Fatty's Debut (1914); Lover's Luck (1914); The Rounders (1914); A Brand New Hero (1914); The Masquerader (1914); The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914); Those Happy Days (1914); The Sky Pirate (1914); Love and Salt Water (1914); Love and Bullets (1914); Fatty and the Heiress (1914); The Knockout (1914); The Alarm (1914); The Water Dog (1914); A Suspended Ordeal (1914); Caught in a Cabaret (1914); Twenty Minutes of Love (1914); Mabel at the Wheel (1914); A Bathing Beauty (1914); The Star Boarder (1914); Cruel, Cruel Love (1914); Tango Tangle (1914); Making a Living (1914); Rebecca's Wedding Day (1914); A Flirt's Mistake (1914); The Under-Sheriff (1914); A Misplaced Foot (1914); His Sister's Kids (1913); Fatty's Flirtation (1913); Fatty Joins the Force (1913); The Water Nymph (1912); Wine (1913); Fatty at San Diego (1913); The Janitor (1913); A Quiet Little Wedding (1913).

Born on this day – Alice Joyce:

Alice Joyce

Actress

October 1, 1890 – October 9, 1955

Credits:

13 Washington Square (1928); A Battle of Wits (1912); A Bolt from the Sky (1913); A Business Buccaneer (1912); A Cattle Herder's Romance (1911); A Celebrated Case (1914); A Daughter's Sacrifice (1912); A Princess of the Hills (1912); A Prisoner of Mexico (1911); A Race with Time (1912); A Streak of Yellow (1913); A Thief in the Night (1913); A Victim of Deceit (1913); An Alabaster Box (1917); An American Invasion (1912); An Interrupted Wedding (1912); An Unseen Terror (1913); Beau Geste (1926); Between Father and Son (1911); Big Hearted Jim (1911); By the Aid of a Lariat (1911); Cast Up by the Sea (1915); Cousin Kate (1921); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925); Dan, the Lighthouse Keeper (1911); Dancing Mothers (1926); Dollars and the Woman (1920); Don Ramon's Daughter (1911); Everybody's Girl (1918); Fantasca, the Gipsy (1912); Fate's Midnight Hour (1914); Find the Woman (1918); For a Woman's Honor (1910); For Her Brother's Sake (1911); For Her Sister's Sake (1913); Freed from Suspicion (1912); He Knew Women (1930); Headlines (1925); Her Indian Mother (1910); Her Lord and Master (1921); Her Secret (1917); Her Supreme Sacrifice (1915); Hollywood (1980); How Betty Captured the Outlaw (1911); In the Grip of a Charlatan (1913); In the Power of Blacklegs (1913); In Wolf's Clothing (1914); Jean of the Jail (1912); Mannequin (1926); Mexican Filibusterers (1911); Mrs. Simms Serves on the Jury (1912); Nina o' the Theatre (1914); On the Warpath (1911); Our New Minister (1913); Over the Garden Wall (1911); Peggy, the Moonshiner's Daughter (1911); Rachel (1910); Reckless Reddy Reforms (1911); Richard the Brazen (1917); Rube Marquard Marries (1912); Rube Marquard Wins (1912); Saved by Telephone (1912); Slabsides (1911); Slaves of Pride (1920); Slim Jim's Last Chance (1911); Song o' My Heart (1930); Sorrell and Son (1927); So's Your Old Man (1926); Stella Dallas (1925); The $20,000 Corot (1913); The Ace of Cads (1926); The Adventure of an Heiress (1913); The Adventures of American Joe (1912); The Alcalde's Conspiracy (1912); The Alpine Lease (1911); The American Princess (1913); The Artist's Sacrifice (1913); The Attorney for the Defense (1913); The Badge of Courage (1911); The Bag of Gold (1912); The Beast (1914); The Bell of Penance (1912); The Blackfoot Halfbreed (1911); The Bolted Door (1911); The Brand (1914); The Branded Shoulder (1911); The Broken Trail (1911); The Business of Life (1918); The Cabaret Dancer (1914); The California Revolution of 1848 (1911); The Cambric Mask (1919); The Captain's Captain (1919); The Carrier Pigeon (1911); The Choice (1918); The Christian (1913); The City of Stars (1924); The Cloak of Guilt (1913); The Colonel's Escape (1912); The Countess (1917); The County Fair (1912); The Courage of Silence (1917); The Cub Reporter's Temptation (1913); The Dance of Death (1914); The Deacon's Daughter (1910); The Defeat of the Brewery Gang (1912); The Education of Elizabeth (1910); The Engineer's Daughter (1911); The Engineer's Sweetheart (1910); The Exposure of the Land Swindlers (1913); The Face of the Madonna (1915); The Family Tyrant (1912); The Fettered Woman (1917); The Finger of Suspicion (1912); The Flag of Freedom (1913); The Girl and the Stowaway (1914); The Girl of the Music Hall (1915); The Green Goddess (1923 / 1930); The Green Rose (1914); The Gun Smugglers (1912); The Hand Print Mystery (1914); The Heart of an Actress (1913); The Heart of Edna Leslie (1910); The Hero Track Walker (1911); The Higher Toll (1911); The Home Maker (1925); The Hunchback (1913); The Indian Maid's Sacrifice (1911); The Inner Chamber (1921); The Leech (1915); The Lion and the Mouse (1919); The Little French Girl (1925); The Long Arm of the Law (1911); The Lost Ribbon (1911); The Love of Summer Morn (1911); The Loyalty of Don Luis Verdugo (1911); The Lynbrook Tragedy (1914); The Mayor's Secretary (1914); The Mexican Joan of Arc (1911); The Mexican Revolutionist (1912); The Midnight Message (1913); The Miser's Child (1910); The Mission Carrier (1911); The Mistress of Hacienda del Cerro (1911); The Mystery of Grandfather's Clock (1912); The Mystery of the Sleeping Death (1914); The Noose (1928); The Nurse at Mulberry Bend (1913); The Octoroon (1913); The Old Army Coat (1914); The Organ Grinder (1912); The Outlaw (1912); The Passionate Adventure (1924); The Pawnbroker's Daughter (1913); The Peril of the Plains (1911); The Prey (1920); The Price of Ambition (1911); The Price of Silence (1914); The Question (1917); The Rescue of Molly Finney (1910); The Riddle of the Green Umbrella (1914); The Riddle of the Tin Soldier (1913); The Rising Generation (1928); The Roses of the Virgin (1910); The Runaway Engine (1911); The Russian Peasant (1912); The Scarab Ring (1921); The School for Scandal (1914); The Secret of the Miser's Cave (1912); The Senator's Dishonor (1913); The Shadow (1914); The Show Girl's Glove (1914); The Sneak (1913); The Song of the Soul (1918); The Spanish Revolt of 1836 (1912); The Spark Divine (1919); The Sporting Duchess (1920); The Squall (1929); The Stolen Invention (1912); The Strange Story of Elsie Mason (1912); The Street Singer (1912); The Suffragette Sheriff (1912); The Swindler (1915); The Temptation of Rodney Vane (1911); The Theft of the Crown Jewels (1914); The Third Degree (1919); The Trail of the Pomas Charm (1911); The Triumph of the Weak (1918); The Vampire's Trail (1914); The Vengeance of Durand (1919); The Vice of Fools (1920); The Viper (1914); The Wandering Musician (1912); The Wasp (1911); The Weakling (1914); The White Goddess (1915); The Winchester Woman (1919); The Woman Between Friends (1918); The Young Millionaire (1912); To the Highest Bidder (1918); Unfaithful to His Trust (1915); When California Was Won (1911); When Fate Decrees (1913); When Lovers Part (1910); When the Sun Went Out (1911); When Two Hearts Are Won (1911); White Man (1924); Whom the Gods Destroy (1916); Within the Law (1917); Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917).

Born on this day – Faith Baldwin:

Faith Baldwin

Writer

October 1, 1893 – March 18, 1978

Credits:

Mavis of Green Hill (1921); Those Difficult Years (1925); Laurel of Stonystream (1923); Magic and Mary Rose (1924); Sign Posts (1924); Thresholds (1925); Three Women (1926); Departing Wings (1927); Alimony (1928); Betty (1928); Rosalie's Career (1928); Broadway Interlude (1929); Garden Oats (1929); Incredible Year (1929); Broadway Sensation (1930); Judy: A Story of Divine Corners (1930); Make-Believe (1930); The Office Wife (1929); Babs, A Story of Devine Corners (1931); Mary Lou, A Story of Divine Corners (1931); Skyscraper (1931); Today's Virtue (1931); District Nurse (1932); Girl on the Make (1932); Myra, A Story of Divine Corners (1932); Self-Made Woman (1932); Weekend Marriage (1932); Beauty (1933); Love's a Puzzle (1933); White Collar Girl (1933); American Family (1934); Honor Bound (1934); Innocent Bystander (1934); Within a Year (1934); Wife vs. Secretary (1935); The Puritan Strain (1935); Men Are Such Fools (1936); The Moon's Our Home (1936); Private Duty (1936); Heart Has Wings (1937); Manhattan Nights (1937); That Man Is Mine (1937); Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1937); Enchanted Oasis (1938); Hotel Hostess (1938); Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1938); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Career by Proxy (1939); High Road (1939); Station Wagon Set (1939); White Magic (1939); The High Road (1939); Arizona Star (1940); Letty and the Law (1940); Medical Center (1940); Rehearsal for Love (1940); Something Special (1940); And New Stars Burn (1941); Heart Remembers (1941); Temporary Address: Reno (1941); Blue Horizons (1942); Breath of Life (1942); Rest of My Life with You (1942); Washington USA (1943); You Can't Escape (1943); Change of Heart (1944); He Married a Doctor (1944); A Job for Jenny (1945); No Private Heaven (1946); Woman on Her Way (1946); Give Love the Air (1947); Sleeping Beauty (1947); An Apartment for Jenny (1947); Marry for Money (1948); Golden Shoestring (1949); For Richer, For Poorer (1949); Look Out for Liza (1950); Tell Me My Heart (1950); The Whole Armour (1951); Juniper Tree (1952); Widow's Walk, Variations on a Theme (1954); Face Towards the Spring (1956); Many Windows: Seasons of the Heart (1958); Three Faces of Love (1958); Blaze of Sunlight (1960); Testament of Trust (1960); Harvest of Hope (1962); The West Wind (1963); Living by Faith (1964); Lonely Man (1964); The Lonely Doctor (1964); Search For Tomorrow (1966); Evening Star (1966); There Is a Season (1966); Velvet Hammer (1969); Take What You Want (1971); Any Village (1972); One More Time (1972); No Bed of Roses (1973); New Girl in Town (1975); Time and the Hour (1975); Hold on to Your Heart (1976); Thursday's Child (1976); Adam's Eden (1977).

Born on this day – Ernest Haycox:

Ernest Haycox

Writer

October 1, 1899 – October 13, 1950

Credits:

Books:
 

A Century of Great Western Stories (2000); A Rider of the High Mesa (1956); Action by Night (1957); Action By Night / Trouble Shooter (1984); Alder Gulch (1942); Alder Gulch / Rider of the High Mesa (1983); Blizzard Camp (2022); Born to Conquer (1999); Brand Fires on the Ridge / aka Wipe Out the Brierlys (1959); Bugles in the Afternoon (1957); Bugles in the Night (1952); Bugle's Wake (1953); Burnt Creek (1996); By Rope and Lead / aka Stage to Lordsburg / Stage-coach (1949); Canyon Passage (1945); Chaffee of Roaring Horse (1949); Clouds on the Circle (1997); Dead Man Range / aka Son of the West (1930); Deep West (1955); Discovery Gulch (1929); Fighting Man / aka On the Prod (1961); Four Great Novels of the West (1997); Frank Peace, Trouble Shooter (1963); Free Grass (1958); Frontier Blood (1974); Great Tales of the West (1994); Grim Canyon (1960); Gun Talk (1956); Guns of Fury (1967); Guns Up (1994); Head of the Mountain (1959); High Wind (1999); Land Rush (1997); Lone Rider (1959); Long Storm (1956); Man in the Saddle (1953); Murder on the Frontier (1954); New Hope (1998); No Law and Order (1954); On a Silver Desert (2003); Outlaw (1953); Outlaw Guns (1964); Pioneer Loves (1948); Prairie Guns (1961); Rawhide Range (1954); Return of a Fighter (1956); Ride the Wild Trail (1974); Riders West (1959); Rim of the Desert (1953); Rim of the Desert / Dead Man's Range (1980); Rough Justice (1951); Saddle and Ride (1958); Saddle and Ride / the Feudists (1980); Scout Detail (1997); Secret River (1955); Sixgun Duo (1965); Stagecoach and Other Stories (1981); Starlight and Gunflame (1973); Starlight Rider (1958); Sundown (1955); Sundown Jim (1955); The Adventurers (1954); The Bold West (1999); The Border Trumpet (1939); The Earthbreakers (1960); The Feudists (1959); The Last Rodeo (1949); The Man From Montana (1964); The Silver Desert (1951); The Wild Bunch (1949); Trail Smoke (1954); Trail Town (1941); Trigger Trio (1966); Trouble Shooter (1954); Vengeance Trail (1960); Whispering Range (1955); Winds of Rebellion (1954).

 

Short stories:
 

A Battle Piece (1926); A Burnt Creek Yuletide (1924); A Girl Must Wait (1939); A Man Needs an Answer (1938); A Municipal Feud (1928); A New Deal in Sevensticks (1927); A Rider of the High Mesa (1927); A Wooing in the Wilds (1925); A Young Man's Fancy (1942); Against the Mob (1935); Always Remember (1942); An Interval in Youth (1938); At Anselm's (1944); At Wolf Creek Tavern (1933); Blizzard Camp (1932); Blizzard (1939); Born to Conquer (1936); Bound South (1928); Brand Fires on the Ridge (1929); Breed of the Frontier (1932); Budd Dabbles in Homesteads (1924); By Rope and Lead (1929); Call This Land Home (1948); Change of Station (1940); Contention—Two Miles Ahead (1929); Crossfire (1931); Cry Deep, Cry Still (1948); Custom of the Country (1948); Dark Land Waiting (1940); Dead-Man Trail (1948); Deep Winter (1943); Departure (1946); Deserter at Valley Forge (1927); Discovery Gulch (1929); Dispatch for the General (1942); Dolorosa, Here I Come (1931); Down the River (1938); Drums Roll (1927); Faithfully, Judith (1942); False Face (1926); Farewell, Laramie, Farewell! (1932); Fighting Man (1929); Five Hard Men (1929); Found Out (1932); Fourth Son (1939); Free Land (1937); From the Tuality (1943); Frontier Blood (1926); Gambler's Heart (1933); Guns Up! (1928); Hang Up My Gun (1932); High Wind (1935); Invitation by Bullet (1929); Light of the West (1926); Make Me Believe (1935); Manhunt (1931); Martinet (1941); McQuestion Rides (1931); Mrs. Benson (1948); Night of Parting (1948); Night Raid (1929); Odd Chance (1933); Old Tough Heart (1931); On Don Jaime Street (1940); Once and for All (1935); One Night in Blackfoot (1927); Only the Best (1943); Outlaw's Reckoning (1949); Paycheck (1943); Pistol Gap (1930); Prairie Yule (1925); Pride (1934); Proud People (1936); Red Knives (1925); Renegade Law (1929); Ride Out! (1931); Rockbound Honesty (1926); Room 515 (1940); Scout Detail (1938); Second Choice (1942); Second-Money Man (1933); Secret River (1928); Sevensticks Gambler (1928); Skirmish at Dry Fork (1942); Smoke Talk (1931); Smoky Pass (1934); Snow in the Canyon (1948); Some Were Brave (1940); Son of the West (1930); Stage to Lordsburg (1937); Starlight and Gunflame (1928); Stubborn People (1924); The Bandit from Paloma County (1929); The Belle of Sevensticks (1927); The Claim Jumpers (1940); The Code (1926); The Colonel's Choice (1942); The Coolie Catcher (1923); The Decision (1933); The Desert Eye (1928); The Ditch to Freedom (1924); The Drifter (1940); The Feudists (1932); The Fighting Call (1932); The Grim Canyon (1928); The Gun Singer (1931); The Gun-Shot Path (1927); The Hour of Fury (1933); The Inscrutable Man (1951); The Kid From River Red (1932); The Killers (1930); The Land That Women Hate (1949); The Long Years (1939); The Man From Montana (1927); The Man with Smoke Gray Eyes(1934); The Octopus of Pilgrim Valley (1928); The Quarrel (1941); The Return of a Fighter (1929); The Roaring Hour (1932); The Sheriff of Crooked Rib (1928); The Silver Saddle (1940); The Stranger (1936); The Timberline Fugitive (1927); The Trail of the Barefoot Pony (1929); The Trap Lifters (1922); Their Own Lights (1933); Their Own Lights (1933); Things Remembered (1949); This Woman and This Man (1938); Time of Change (1942); Under Western Skies (1927); Violent Interlude (1949); Way Up the Bozeman (1935); Weight of Command (1940); When Money Went to His Head (1924); Wild Horse Lode (1929); Winds of Rebellion (1927); Woman Hungry (1937).

 

Movies and television:
 

Abilene Town (1946); Actor's Studio (1949); Apache Trail (1942); Apache War Smoke (1952); Bugles in the Afternoon (1952); Canyon Passage (1946); Cimarron City (1959); General Electric Theater (1955–1958); Heaven Only Knows (1947); Man in the Saddle (1951); Medallion Theatre (1953); Montana (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Stagecoach (1939 / 1966 / 1986); Sundown Jim (1942); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1959); The Forsaken Westerns (2017); The Motorola Television Hour (1953); The Plymouth Playhouse (1953); Theatre of the West (1955); Union Pacific (1939).