The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito (1943) by Erle Stanley Gardner Today’s read is my 10th Perry Mason review for the blog, although I have read 11 books by Gardner overall. Nevertheless, I think I need a few more Gardners under my belt, before I attempt a top ten though. Interestingly, whilst he is an author I enjoy, Erle Stanley Gardner is not one that I […]
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A Quest for a Loyal Dracula Adaptation Dracula is the most powerful adaptation fad in recent times. He’s sprung alive in incarnation after incarnation for approximately a century, without totally dying out. The Guinness Book of World Records counts Dracula as the most-played character of all time. The Internet Movie Database lists on its website hundreds and hundreds in which the character […]
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Tariffied: Impacts on Publishing, Writing, & Creativity Hello, Type M Readers & Writers:Shelley here reporting from an island in the Philippine Sea and feeling very weirded-out by everything going on over there on the mainland. Guam is a far-away outpost of the USA. My husband works for the Department of the Navy. We've been on island since January, trying to get our bearings. It would have been difficult in normal circumstances. Now I don't
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #846: A COYOTE’S IN THE HOUSE By Elmore Leonard I’ve read a lot of Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction and Westerns, but I did not know he had written a children’s book. Just by blind luck, I stumbled over this book in a local thrift store. It had been misspelled with the adult hardcovers next to the Children’s Books section. Elmore Leonard wrote A Coyote’s […]
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Full Programme Announced for Final CrimeFest The full programme for the final CrimeFest in Bristol, which takes place 15 – 18 May at Bristol’s Mercure Grand Hotel has been announced. 2025’s featured guest is icon of the genre, Lee Child, who will be in conversation with his brother and co-writer of the Reacher series, Andrew Child. One of the UK’s leading […]
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