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.

Recommended reading - 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:
 

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.

 

Contents:
 

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.

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Born on this day – Carroll John Daly:

 

Carroll John Daly

Writer

September 14, 1889 – January 16, 1958

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).

Born on this day – Tom Delaney:

Tom Delaney

Blues singer

Songwriter

Pianist

September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963

Credits:

Songs:

Absent Minded Blues; Alabama Blues; Down on Pennsylvania Avenue; Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die); Follow the Deal on Down; Graveyard Love; I Wanna Jazz Some More; If I Lose, Let Me Lose (Mamma Don't Mind); I'm a Back Bitin' Mama; Jazz It Blues; Jazz Me Blues; Log Cabin Blues; Move It On Out of Here; Never Drive a Beggar from Your Door; Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Mornin'; Police Blues; Sinful Blues; Slow and Steady; Somethin' Goin' On Wrong; Southbound Blues; The Down Home Blues; Troublesome Blues; Walk That Broad; You May Go but You'll Come Back Some Day.

Born on this day – Patricia Palmer:

Patricia Palmer

Actress

September 14, 1894 – October 21, 1964

Credits:

A Child of the North (1915); A City Rube (1915); A Gentleman's Agreement (1918); A Kaffir's Gratitude (1916); A Little Madonna (1914); A Lucky Slip (1917); A Pair of Hellions (1924); A Perfect 36 (1923); A Rustic Romeo (1919); A Siren of the Jungle (1916); A Soul Enslaved (1916); Across the Border (1922); All on Account of Towser (1915); Almost a Hero (1915); Almost Divorced (1917); An Intercepted Vengeance (1915); Anne of the Mines (1914); Any Port in a Storm (1913); Auntie (1914); Avenged by Lions (1916); Betty Wakes Up (1917); Beyond the Trail (1921); Bianca (1913); Blondes (1921); Brandon's Last Ride (1914); By Injunction (1918); By the World Forgot (1918); Cold Feet (1922); Could a Man Do More? (1915); Cynthiana (1918); Destiny's Boomerang (1916); Detective and Matchmaker (1914); Dummy Love (1921); Faro Nell, Lookout (1918); Fate's Decision (1916); Francine (1914); Ginger's Reign (1914); Good Gracious, Bobby (1919); Greater Than Love (1921); Green Eyes and Bullets (1917); He Fell on the Beach (1917); Hearts and Clubs (1917); Her Merry Mix-Up (1917); Highlights and Shadows (1916); His Bitter Half (1921); His Kid Sister (1914); His Mother's Portrait (1915); Hold Your Breath (1924); Into the Light (1920); Kidding the Boss (1914); Local Color (1917); Love Will Out (1914); Mareea the Half-Breed (1914); Mareea, the Foster Mother (1914); Marta of the Jungles (1916); Mary Moves In (1919); Mixed Bedrooms (1921); Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923); Naughty Nanette (1927); Old Moddington's Daughters (1913); Only a Sister (1914); Out in Happy Hollow (1914); Polly at the Ranch (1913); Prosecution (1914); Public Approval (1916); Rose of Wolfville (1918); Rounding Up the Law (1922); Rowdy Ann (1919); Sally's Blighted Career (1919); Sand (1920); Sea Sirens (1919); Sisters (1914); Skirts (1917); Some Boy! (1919); Sunny; or, the Cattle Thief (1913); Sunshine Valley (1916); Tangled Hearts (1916); Tell Your Wife Everything (1919); The Arab's Vengeance (1915); The Bait (1916); The Canyon Hold-Up (1918); The Clients of Aaron Green (1918); The Coming of Faro Nell (1918); The Coward (1915); The Cowboy and the Lady (1922); The Cowboy King (1922); The Desert Wolf (1921); The Dismissal of Silver Phil (1918); The Faith of the Strong (1919); The Fifth Wheel (1918); The Fourteenth Man (1917); The Ghosts (1914); The Girl at Nolan's (1915); The Girl from Beyond (1918); The Godless Girl (1928); The Golden Trail (1915); The Good-for-Nothing Brat (1916); The Hammer (1915); The Heart of Tara (1916); The Heir of the Broken O (1918); The Hidden Law (1916); The Home Trail (1918); The Homesteaders (1916); The Honeymooners (1917); The Horse Thief (1914); The Island of Desire (1917); The Jungle Flash Light (1916); The Jungle Outcasts (1916); The King of Kings (1927); The Kiss (1914); The Last Will (1914); The Leopard's Bride (1916); The Level (1914); The Lion's Nemesis (1916); The Little Savage (1929); The Love of Tokiwa (1914); The Marquis and Miss Sally (1918); The Milky Way (1917); The Moment of Victory (1918); The Money Corral (1919); The Mystery of the Hidden House (1914); The Navajo Ring (1915); The Night Riders of Petersham (1914); The Old Oak's Secret (1914); The Ostrich Tip (1916); The Outlaw (1913); The Part Time Wife (1925); The Protest (1915); The Race (1913); The Sage-Brush Gal (1914); The Sea Ghost (1915); The Sea Maiden (1913); The Siren (1915); The Soul's Cycle (1916); The Spell (1913); The Star of India (1916); The Taming of Rita (1915); The Tempest (1921); The Waster (1926); The Web of the Law (1923); The Widow Dangerous (1918); The Winning of Jess (1915); The Woman in the Web (1918); The Wooing of Riley (1918); The Wrong Pair (1913); The Yellow Streak (1913); Their Seaside Tangle (1917); To the Ladies (1923); Tony, the Greaser (1914); Tucson Jennie's Heart (1918); Turkey Dressing (1921); When Love Leads (1915); When the Gods Forgive (1914); Who's Your Friend (1925); With the Mummies' Help (1917); Without Mercy (1925); You Couldn't Blame Her (1919).

Born on this day – Alfred Santell:

Alfred Santell

Director

Producer

September 14, 1895 – June 19, 1981

Credits:

A Bathtub Bandit (1917); A Day Out of Jail (1917); A Feather in Her Hat (1935); A Million for Mary (1916); A Misfit Millionaire (1917); A Studio Satire (1916); A Wild Night (1920); All at Sea (1922); Aloma of the South Seas (1941); As You Were (1919); At Swords' Point (1918); Babies Is Babies (1919); Bandit Beware! (1917); Beauty and the Feast (1923); Beloved Rogues (1917); Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942); Bill Settles Down (1918); Billy Van Deusen's Ancestry (1916); Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925); Bluff (1916); Body and Soul (1931); Bondage (1933); Breakfast for Two (1937); Breaking the Ice (1925); Bulls or Bullets (1917); But a Butler! (1922); Classified (1925); Cocoanut Grove (1938); Daddy Long Legs (1931); Dirty Work in a Laundry (1915); Doubles and Troubles (1917); Efficiency Experts (1917); Empty Hearts (1924); Fools in the Dark (1924); Hale and Hearty (1922); Hard Times in Hard Scrapple (1917); Having Wonderful Time (1938); High Flyers (1922); Home, James (1918); Internes Can't Take Money (1937); Introduce Me (1925); It Might Happen to You (1920); Jack London (1943); Just Another Blonde (1926); Lights Out (1923); Lonesome Town (1916); Main 1-2-3 (1918); Mexicana (1945); Monkeying Around (1923); My Mistake (1922); O, Susie Behave (1918); Oh, Baby! (1920); One Lovely Night (1919); Only a Husband (1923); Orchids and Ermine (1927); Our Leading Citizen (1939); Out of the Bag (1917); Parisian Nights (1925); People Will Talk (1935); Pills for Papa (1920); Pink Pajamas (1918); Politics in Pumpkin Center (1917); Polly of the Circus (1932); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932); Rented Trouble (1922); Rings and Things (1920); Romance of the Rio Grande (1929); Seaside Romeos (1917); Seeing Things (1919); Show Girl (1928); Sob Sister (1931); Some Job (1918); Stop, Cease, Hesitate (1919); Subway Sadie (1926); Sweet Daddies (1926); Tess of the Storm Country (1932); That Brennan Girl (1946); The Arizona Kid (1930); The Arkansas Traveler (1938); The Bogus Bride (1917); The Boot and the Loot (1917); The Dancer of Paris (1926); The Deadly Doughnut (1917); The Gilded Youth (1917); The Gorilla (1927); The Hairy Ape (1944); The Hobo Raid (1917); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928); The Magic Jazz-Bo (1917); The Man Who Played Square (1924); The Marriage Whirl (1925); The New Mama (1922); The Onion Magnate's Revenge (1917); The Patent Leather Kid (1927); The Pork Plotters (1916); The Pursuing Package (1918); The Right to Romance (1933); The Sea Wolf (1930); The Stolen Keyhole (1918); The Switching Hour (1924); The Three Pals (1916); Thirty Minutes in Havana (1920); This Is Heaven (1929); Tin Knights in a Hallroom (1923); Twin Beds (1929); Two Tired (1919); Vamping the Vamp (1918); West Is East (1923); Wheel of Chance (1928); When Adam Had 'Em (1916); Whirlwind of Whiskers (1917); Wildcat Jordan (1922); Winner Take All (1923); Winterset (1936).