Classic Comfort Movie Blogathon What better way to celebrate National Classic Movie Day t han with a bunch of movie mavens dishing abo...

Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919) English painter Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (1893 - 1965) American illustrator Amos...

Not really forgotten except maybe by a few poor unfortunates who are not familiar with the wonderfulness of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe bo...

I am currently listening - for the umpteenth time - to CARDS ON THE TABLE narrated by Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings in the original ser...

This is the fifth Richard Hannay book and the last in what is really not so much a series as five individual adventures not directly in...

My email account been down for some time while, behind the scenes, I tried to cope. So if you've emailed me and haven't gotten a res...

Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig aka Craig Rice wrote 14 novels and was once so popular she made the cover of Time magazine. But she seems to...

This is essentially a very silly book, but that doesn't stop me loving it. I've read it twice and will probably read it again and...

Except for a rather abrupt end, this is a superb book from a writer whose work continues to surprise me. It is also the sort of book ...

Yes, THAT Gypsy Rose Lee - although some say it was actually Craig Rice who did the writing. At this point, I suppose it doesn't mat...

I recently re-read Phyllis Whitney's WINDOW ON THE SQUARE  (reviewed by yours truly upon my last re-read in 2011) and reminded myself...

Yeah, I know, heroes wore the hats as well. But 'Hoods in Hats' sounds better as a titl...