Featuring History of Mystery/Detective Fiction and Other Literary Ramblings of Elizabeth Foxwell
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Lester Dent. The Dux , Chillicothe (MO) Business College yearbook, 1923, p. 106 Over on the Black Gate blog , Will Murray discusses fictional detectives created by pulp writer Lester Dent (1904–59) who investigated maritime matters: Oscar Sail and Cyrus Peace.
The Illinois-based Ballet 5:8 has scheduled a national tour of its ballet, "The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe, " which, as the company describes, "traces Poe's life through the short stories that made him immortal." Its creators are Ballet 5:8 artistic director Julianna Rubio Slager and choreographer Glorielle Niedfeldt. Upcoming cities include Albuquerque (October 2026); Baltimore (October…
There is a new call for papers for a Clues: A Journal of Detection theme issue on the work of mid–twentieth-century American female crime writers. The guest editors are Erin A. Smith (University of Texas at Dallas) and Clare Rolens (Palomar College). Proposals are due 15 January 2027, with full essays of 5,000 to 6,000 words due 1 August 2027.
There's news that the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, NZ, is experiencing a lack of sustained funding at both the national and local levels. Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, NZ, 2021. Photo by Pipjohn. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 .
Israel Zangwill, ca. 1901. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, NYPL, One hundred years after the death of author Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), the Victorian Jewish Writers Project will host an online symposium examining Zangwill’s writing, public career, and legacy on Aug 4 at noon (ET). Among Zangwill's works is the locked-room novel The Big Bow…
Over on the Travel + Leisure Asia website , Manas Sen Gupta discusses the largely Atlanta-area filming locations for the Apple TV series Cape Fear (based on The Executioners by John D. MacDonald , which has had two film adaptations). The series features Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, and Javier Bardem.
Christopher Morley, left, w/publisher Mitchell Kennerley, ca. 1930. Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. As the Roslyn (NY) School District noted , the Christopher Morley Knothole (the small studio of author and Baker Street Irregulars nurturer Christopher Morley , 1890–1957) was reopened on June 9. Located within Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn,…
Fulton Oursler, ca. 1928 I was browsing the Nickel Weeklies digital collection at BGSU's Browne Popular Culture Library and found a familiar name in the pages of Mystery Magazine : Charles Fulton Oursler (1893–1952). We might know him better as Fulton Oursler (the editor of Liberty magazine and Reader's Digest as well as the author of The Greatest Story Ever Told ) or mystery author Anthony Abbot…
An episode of the podcast Another Shirt Ruined (focusing on Elizabeth Peters ' Amelia Peabody Emerson series) features Ava Dickerson, an archivist at IU Bloomington's Lilly Library, who catalogued the papers of Peters (aka Barbara Michaels and Barbara Mertz). Learn about aspects of the collection, some fans who wrote to Peters, challenges in cataloguing, and more. Further Reading : Ava Dickerson,…
My new Jury Box column w/reviews of mystery short story collections and classic reprints is now posted at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , featuring works that focus on the impossible crime (Elsa Barker, Christianna Brand, Charles Chadwick, Mary Collins, Celia Fremlin, Peter Lovesey, T.S. Stribling).
