Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Recommended reading - The Dime Detectives

 

The Dime Detectives

by Ron Goulart.
 
Published by Mysterious Press.
Published 1988.
First Edition.
Hardcover.
 
ISBN-10: 0892961910
ISBN-13: 978-0892961917
 
Description:
A comprehensive history of the detective fiction pulps.
Traces the history of detective fiction pulp magazines from their origins in the nineteenth-century dime novels to their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, profiling many pulp writers who went on to achieve greater fame.

Born on this day – Devereaux “Dev” Jennings:


 Devereaux “Dev” Jennings


Cinematographer

September 22, 1884 – March 12, 1952

Credits:
Born to the West (1937); Musical Cocktail (1935); Hark Ye Hark! (1935); Rhythm on the Roof (1934); Stranger in Town (1932); The Famous Ferguson Case (1932); Manhattan Parade (1931); War Mamas (1931); Side Show (1931); The Public Enemy (1931); 50 Million Frenchmen (1931); Finn and Hattie (1931); Divorce Among Friends (1930); The Life of the Party (1930); Oh, Sailor Behave! (1930); The Matrimonial Bed (1930); Golden Dawn (1930); Bride of the Regiment (1930); Dumbbells in Ermine (1930); Hold Everything (1930); Song of the West (1930); Sally (1929); The Sap (1929); Heart Trouble (1928); Vamping Venus (1928); Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928); Flying Romeos (1928); College (1927); The Missing Link (1927); The General (1926); Battling Butler (1926); What Price Beauty? (1925); Steel Preferred (1925); Cobra (1925); The Eagle (1925); The Million Dollar Handicap (1925); Those Who Dare (1924); The Gunfighter (1923); Children of Jazz (1923); Brass Commandments (1923); The Footlight Ranger (1923); The Boss of Camp Four (1922); Without Compromise (1922); Bells of San Juan (1922); The Glory of Clementina (1922); Two Kinds of Women (1922); The Lure of Jade (1921); The Sting of the Lash (1921); A Voice in the Dark (1921); Salvage (1921); Roads of Destiny (1921); The Mistress of Shenstone (1921); The Great Lover (1920); Madame X (1920); The Daredevil (1920); The Feud (1919); Should a Husband Forgive? (1919); Evangeline (1919); Cowardice Court (1919); Miss Adventure (1919); The Forbidden Room (1919); Treat 'Em Rough (1919); The Danger Zone (1918); Fame and Fortune (1918); Mr. Logan, U.S.A. (1918); Ace High (1918); Confession (1918); The Bride of Fear (1918); Six-Shooter Andy (1918); Cheating the Public (1918); The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917); The Spy (1917); Durand of the Bad Lands (1917); Her Temptation (1917); One Touch of Sin (1917); The Sin Ye Do (1916); A Gamble in Souls (1916); The Mediator (1916); The Jungle Child (1916); Lieutenant Danny, U.S.A. (1916); Eye of the Night (1916); The Dividend (1916); The No-Good Guy (1916); Bullets and Brown Eyes (1916); The Corner (1916); Civilization (1915); The Winged Idol (1915); Matrimony (1915).

Born on this day – Harry Joe Brown:


Harry Joe Brown


Director

Producer

September 22, 1890 – April 28, 1972

Credits:

A Woman Commands (1932); A Woman of Experience (1931); Bashful Buccaneer (1925); Broadway Billy (1926); Danger Quest (1926); Fighting Thorobreds (1926); Gun Gospel (1927); I Love That Man (1933); I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945); Kentucky Handicap (1926); Knickerbocker Holiday (1944); Lucky Larkin (1930); Madison Square Garden (1932); Moran of the Mounted (1926); Mountain Justice (1930); One Punch O'Day (1926); Parade of the West (1930); Racing Romance (1926); Rapid Fire Romance (1926); Romantic Rogue (1927); Señor Americano (1929); Sitting Pretty (1933); Song of the Caballero (1930); Sons of the Saddle (1930); Stick to Your Story (1926); The Air Derby (1929); The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933); The Cloud Patrol (1929); The Code of the Scarlet (1928); The Dangerous Dude (1926); The Fighting Legion (1930); The High Flyer (1926); The Land Beyond the Law (1927); The Lawless Legion (1929); The Night Owl (1926); The Racing Fool (1927); The Royal American (1927); The Royal Rider (1929); The Scorcher (1927); The Self Starter (1926); The Sky Ranger (1928); The Skywayman (1928); The Squealer (1930); The Wagon Master (1929); The Wagon Show (1928); The Windjammer (1926); The Winner (1926).

Born on this day – Dorothy Dalton:


Dorothy Dalton


Actress

September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972

Credits:

A Gamble in Souls (1916); A Romantic Adventuress (1920); A Trip to Paramountown (1922); Across the Pacific (1914); Back of the Man (1917); Behind Masks (1921); Black Is White (1920); Chicken Casey (1917); Civilization's Child (1916); Dark Secrets (1923); Dorothy Dalton in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Extravagance (1919); Flare-Up Sal (1918); Fog Bound (1923); Fool's Paradise (1921); Green Eyes (1918); Guilty of Love (1920); Half an Hour (1920); Hard Boiled (1919); His Wife's Friend (1919); L'apache (1919); Law of the Lawless (1923); Love Letters (1917); Love Me (1918); Moran of the Lady Letty (1922); On the High Seas (1922); Other Men's Wives (1919); Pierre of the Plains (1914); Quicksand (1918); Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 25 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (1923); Ten of Diamonds (1917); The Camera Speaks (1934); The Captive God (1916); The Crimson Challenge (1922); The Dark Mirror (1920); The Dark Road (1917); The Disciple (1915); The Female of the Species (1916); The Flame of the Yukon (1917); The Homebreaker (1919); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Idol of the North (1921); The Jungle Child (1916); The Kaiser's Shadow (1918); The Lady of Red Butte (1919); The Lone Wolf (1924); The Market of Souls (1919); The Mating of Marcella (1918); The Moral Sinner (1924); The Price Mark (1917); The Raiders (1916); The Siren Call (1922); The Three Musketeers (1916); The Vagabond Prince (1916); The Weaker Sex (1917); The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922); Tyrant Fear (1918); Unfaithful (1918); United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (1918); Vive la France! (1918); Wild Winship's Widow (1917).

Born on this day – Katharine Alexander:


Katharine Alexander


Actress

September 22, 1898 - January 10, 1981

Credits:

After Office Hours (1935); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Angels with Broken Wings (1941); Anne of Windy Poplars (1940); As Good as Married (1937); Breakdowns of 1938 (1938); Broadway Serenade (1939); Cardinal Richelieu (1935); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); Death Takes a Holiday (1934); Double Wedding (1937); Enchanted April (1935); For the Love of Mary (1948); Ginger (1935); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); In Name Only (1939); John Loves Mary (1949); Kiss and Tell (1945); Moonlight Murder (1936); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Now, Voyager (1942); On the Sunny Side (1942); Operator 13 (1934); Play Girl (1941); Rascals (1938); Reunion (1936); She Married Her Boss (1935); Should Ladies Behave (1933); Sis Hopkins (1941); Small Town Deb (1941); Splendor (1935); Stage Door (1937); Sutter's Gold (1936); Taxi Talks (1930); That Certain Woman (1937); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934); The Devil Is a Sissy (1936); The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935); The Girl from Scotland Yard (1937); The Great Man Votes (1939); The Hard Guy (1930); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); The Painted Veil (1934); The Vanishing Virginian (1942); Three Sons (1939).

Born on this day – John Houseman:


John Houseman


Actor

Producer

September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988

Credits:

227 (1987); 2nd House (1976); A Christmas Without Snow (1980); A Night at Ford's Theater (1968); A Rose for Emily (1983); A.D. (1985); ABC Stage 67 (1966); AFI Life Achievement Award (1979–1984); All Fall Down (1962); American Playhouse (1983); American: An Odyssey to 1947 (2022); America's Musical Theater (1985); Another Woman (1988); Aspen (1977); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bright Lights, Big City (1988); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Callow's Laughton (1987); Camera Three (1975–1976); Captains and the Kings (1976); Choices of the Heart (1983); Cinéastes de notre temps (1965); Citizen Kane (1941); Clarence Darrow (1974); Day at Night (1974); Dillinger (1960); Dracula A Symphony of Blood (2021); Executive Suite (1954); FDR (1982); Fear on Trial (1975); Film '73 (1973); Film Night (1976); Fireside Theatre (1949–1955); Freedom to Speak (1983); Ghost Story (1981); Gideon's Trumpet (1980); Good Morning America (1981); Great Performances (1975 / 1982); Hazard's People (1976); Her Twelve Men (1954); Holiday for Sinners (1952); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Greats (1984); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974); In the Cool of the Day (1963); Jane Eyre (1943); Journey to America (1964); Juilliard (1971); Julius Caesar (1953); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016); Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948); L'homme qui a vu l'homme qui a vu l'ours (1990); Lincoln (1988); Lust for Life (1956); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Marco Polo (1982); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); Moonfleet (1955); Mork & Mindy (1982); Murder by Phone (1982); My Bodyguard (1980); Nightlife (1986); Noble House (1988); Old Boyfriends (1979); Olympic Gala (1984); On Dangerous Ground (1951); Our Planet Tonight (1987); Our Town (1977); Our World (1987); Peace on Borrowed Time (1983); Pioneers of Television (2014); Plaisir du théâtre (1983); Playhouse 90 (1958–1959); Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018); Rollerball (1975); Roses in December (1982); Scrooged (1988); Seven Days in May (1964); Silver Spoons (1982–1987); Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976); Sorry, Wrong Number (1946); St. Ives (1976); Stages: Houseman Directs Lear (1981); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024); Tales from the Mist: Inside 'the Fog' (2002); Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 33rd Annual Tony Awards (1979); The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1980); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); The Adams Chronicles (1976); The Annual American Cinematheque Awards Honoring Robin Williams (1988); The Associates (1980); The Babysitter (1980); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); The Best of Families (1977); The Best of Film Noir (1999); The Best of Hollywood (1998); The Bionic Woman (1976); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Brand New Illustrated Journal of the Arts (1982); The British Greats (1980); The Cheap Detective (1978); The Cobweb (1955); The Company She Keeps (1951); The Complete Citizen Kane (1991); The Country Girl (1974); The David Frost Show (1972); The Displaced Person (1977); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Billy Wilder (1982); The Fog (1980); The French Atlantic Affair (1979); The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984); The Great Adventure (1963); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1983); The Last Convertible (1979); The Late Show (1986); The Look of Scrooged (2006); The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938); The Merry Wives of Windsor (1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1979–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1974–1980); The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988); The New Deal for Artists (1976); The New Steve Allen Show (1961); The Paper Chase (1973–1986); The Paul Ryan Show (1977–1992); The Seven Lively Arts (1957–1958); The Six Million Dollar Man (1976); The South Bank Show (1988); The Television Annual: 1978/1979 (1979); The Time of Your Life (1976); The Unseen (1945); The Winds of War (1983); They Live by Night (1948); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Three Days of the Condor (1975); Today (1979); Too Much Johnson (1938); Truman at Potsdam (1976); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Two Weeks in Another Town (1962); Une légende, une vie (1974); Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (1956); Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977); Wholly Moses! (1980); Wogan (1985); Writing: Plain & Fancy (1981); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Shepperd Strudwick:


Shepperd Strudwick


Actor

September 22, 1907 – January 15, 1983