Malevolence is the key word whenever I conjure up the main villain in John Frankenheimer's masterpiece of political suspense, THE M...

I'll be talking about the mother of all villains - Angela Lansbury in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. I hope you'll drop by and chat a...

I owe thanks to TomCat over at Beneath the Stains of Time for recommending John Russell Fearn, a writer I'd never heard of much les...

American painter Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935)  i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirit of t...

(I re-worked this review from 2011 because no matter how hard I tried I couldn't think of a book featuring a small town cop that I migh...

"You yourself, don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitti...

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...