via This is the third time I've run into Miles Burton's creation, Desmond Merrion, wealthy criminologist and former intelligenc...

I was not bowled over by this, my first George Bellairs book, but I was engaged enough. I am very fond of murder mysteries that take plac...

American painter Bessie Hoover Wessel (1888 - 1973) via Russian painter Alexej Jawlenski (1864 -  1941) - via  Chilean pa...

This is a  re-working of a post from 2011 because I got to thinking it was time again to talk about author Earl Emerson (I haven't ...

Another Michael Gilbert book to talk about. Admittedly I was very disappointed in the rather boring and unpleasant PAINT, GOLD & BL...

Isn't it wonderful when you discover you've been wrong all along about an author and then -  oh heavenly day  - you have a who...

  GARGOYLES (1972) starring Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt and Bernie Casey. Rick's Classic Film and TV Cafe is a very enticing...

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Where have I been that I've missed reading Michael Gilber's work until now? I recently saw a review on one of your blogs about S...

This is not by any means a 'forgotten' book at all, maybe not even overlooked, but I had to figure out how to fit it in on our re...

An author I've never read before (never even heard of before), recommended by Nan at LETTERS FROM A HILL FARM. Thank you, Nan. I...

Couldn't find a cover to display for this book so I invented one. You know how I am, I get a crush on a writer and away I go. La...

Via Don't normally talk politics here and I don't intend to begin in any major way. But I had to say something and this bril...

It's possible I've spoken about this book before, if so, forgive me for rattling on about it yet again. But it is among my top fi...

"What if we win the war, but lose the last five hundred years of our cultural history on our watch?  Lieutenant George Stout, U.S...