Actually this is a pastiche seemingly  based on our favorite Manhattan-centric detectives , Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. The one and o...

source In CHAMPAGNE FOR ONE (1958) Archie Goodwin states: 'If, to the pass the time, you tried to decide what was the most conc...

French painter Edouard Vuillard , 1906. (1868 - 1940) Swiss painter Cuno Amiet (1868 - 1961) British painter Mary Fedden (...

'Summer in Cumberland ' - British painter James Durden (1903 - 1993) In between vintage mysteries as they arrive on my doors...

Something about this series caught my eye somewhere, somehow, and you know how that goes. My local library only had one book available - ...

'Pot of Tea and Ice Cream ' - American illustrator   Edmund Marion Ashe  (1867 - 1941) 'The Postman' 1931 - Brit...

This book by an author foolishly forgotten has everything you'd want in a mystery and then some. I began reading - not really knowing...

I've begun - with this year's list - to add stars to the books I read during the year. So if you'd like to see how I rate what I...

It's very early days yet, but any book I read from now on will have to go a mighty long way to thrill and enchant me in quite the s...

source Over the past month or so, I've scored a nice bunch of vintage books online (and not as I would have preferred, digging ...

source 2014 was a great reading year. In fact, I read so many wonderful books that it was more difficult than ever to cull my absolute...

Detail from a J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post cover. Wishing my family and all my friends, a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

source MERRY CHRISTMAS! May God bless us every one.

With your indulgence, this is a revamp of previous Christmas film posts. Nothing new is ever added, I stubbornly hold to the belief that no...