This blog celebrates detective stories - tales of crime, mystery and suspense – in print and on film, television, radio and the stage. It shares more than a little with my old Aficionado blog.
Thanks for visiting.
Sergio
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Recent Posts
- THE AXEMAN COMETH by Nev Fountain
- Ragu in The Smoke – part 2
- THE NAKED FACE (1970) by Sidney Sheldon
- Endeavour Morse will return
- Vienna: The Memory Box
- MAIGRET SETS A TRAP (1955) by Georges Simenon
- In Your Hands – Tuesday’s Forgotten Film
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TURK! (1986) by Jakob Arjouni
- St. Ives (1976) – Tuesday’s Forgotten Film
- FUZZ (1968) by Ed McBain
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Loved the blog, which I discovered thanks to Rap Sheet.
You might be interested (occasionally) in my monthly “Getting Away With Murder” in Shots Magazine here in the UK.
Keep up the good work.
Dear Mike,
what an honour – thanks very much for the kind words and for reminding me to put “Shots Magazine” and your column on my blogroll, where they belong.
All the best,
Sergio
Well I wish you’d told me about this earlier! I still refer to that guide to mystery and police procedural authors that you made for me years ago. I’ve been exposed to so many great authors and books via your recommendations!
I’ve been rumbled! Hello Jamus and welcome to the playpen.
I just nominated you for a blog award. You can read about it here:
http://livius1.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/ending-the-year-on-a-high/
Thanks Colin, that’s very generous and really great company you’ve put me in – cheers mate.
Sergio
Hi Sergio. Love your blog, and just included it on a page of noir links on my new baseball murder mystery site, which launches this coming Friday.
http://mystery58.wordpress.com/the-mysterians/
Cheers mate, that very kind of you. Great to be in such fine criminous company!
All the best,
Sergio
Sergio – I found your site while looking for Johnny Fedora crime novels – Tipping my fedora I guess is quite close. I’m more than pleasantly pleased by your website. Congratulations,
Would be great to get your views on Johnny Fedora novels of which I’m becoming a fan. First came across him via Mike Ripley who you clearly know.
Hello Frank, sorry about the lack of coverage of Desmond Cory so far – I’ll have to try and remedy that in the future. Truth is I haven’t read the Fedora books. Of course, compared with Mike Ripley, when it comes to crime fiction very few of us really know what we’re talking about anyway! I’ll have to see about digging some of the books out though – thanks very much for the stimulus to action …
I really like your website….discovered the works of Ed McBain because of it. I have now read eight novels in the 87the Precinct series and loved them all. I enjoy his economical prose style, which can be quite lyrical in places, his humor, and the complex plots, which always have several threads that are connected in realistic and fascinating ways. Hard to pick what to read next though, but your reviews are very helpful…a couple of favorites so far are The Mugger and Give the Boys a Great Big Hand. I am thinking of reading some John Dickson Carr novels too. I read an excerpt of the Burning Court and its seems intriguing. I have read some negative comments about Carr’s prose style, but the excerpt didn’t raise any flags for me. Any suggestions as to where to start? I notice several titles now available for the Kindle.
Ciao Sal, thanks very much for the kind words. Another fan of the boys in the 87th – hurrah! I did a personal top 10 of Carr in my post about him here. Of the Carr titles on Kindle (and his alter ego ‘Carter Dickson’), I would definitely reccomend the historical mystery (with a dash of the supernatural) The Burning Court and the Carter Dickson Classics She Died a Lady and The Plague Court Murders (which introduced Henry Merrvale). Of the Fell mysteries currently available in the format, The Problem of the Green Capsule is truly masterful while He Who Whispers is less well known but one of his best too.
Buona lettura,
Sergio
Sergio:
I love your blog. I’ve been reading it for quite some time and always enjoy what you post. I’ve got a link to your blog posted on my website. I post about many of the same things you do. Here’s the link: http://frankcampbell56.blogspot.com. Check it out and if you like what you see, please consider posting a link on your blog. Thanks for your time. Keep up the good work!
Will do Frank – and thanks very much for the kind words.
I’ve passed on a brace of blogging awards to you. Hope you enjoy.
See – http://livius1.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/new-year-awards/
Colin
Cheers matey.
I was intrigued by your entry on Murder in Cambridge, so I’ve just read it and featured it in my blog, Clothes in Books http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/murder-at-cambridge-by-q-patrick.html
– you get a shoutout and a recommended link. Hope you might be interested…
Thanks very much Moira – glad it was of interest.
Dear Sergio,
I found your swell blog on the very kind recommendation of E at Ela’s Book Blog. I wrote her regarding a crazy experiment I had in mind regarding a hard-boiled project I’ve launched. She thought I might look you up. Curious?
bsolomon at thehardboileddetective.com
In any case, keep up the good work!
Ben
Thanks Ben – shall certainly take a gander …
Awful kind of you, Sergio. If it strikes your fancy, I’ll float you my hair-brained idea for an experiment. Thanks again.