Category Archives: Val Guest

DANGEROUS DAVIES: THE LAST DETECTIVE (1976) by Leslie Thomas

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Cavershamragu

Today I thought I would post something on the lighter side of the mystery genre, a potentially grim story of a cold case told with bawdy humour and plenty of vim and vigour. Leslie Thomas (1931–2014) came to prominence in … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Silver Vintage Scavenger Hunt, London, Tuesday's Overlooked Film, Val Guest | Tagged Peter Davison | 24 Comments

SLEEP LONG, MY LOVE (1959) by Hilary Waugh

Posted on 1 December 2015 by Cavershamragu

Waugh was one of the founding fathers of the American police procedural, following on from Lawrence Treat and Sidney Kingsley and paving the way for the likes of Ed McBain. His best and most widely read book remains the classic … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Vintage Mystery Challenge, Hilary Waugh, New York, Police procedural, Tuesday's Overlooked Film, Val Guest | Tagged Jack Warner | 32 Comments

THE PILLARS OF MIDNIGHT (1957) by Elleston Trevor

Posted on 3 November 2015 by Cavershamragu

This book was one of the first of a new breed of medical thrillers dealing with threats at the microscopic scale, spawned by anxieties over germ warfare (and which can be said to have peaked with Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Vintage Mystery Challenge, Elleston Trevor, England, Tuesday's Overlooked Film, Val Guest | Tagged Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson | 27 Comments

The Full Treatment (1960) – Tuesday’s overlooked film

Posted on 10 February 2015 by Cavershamragu

This tale of psychological turmoil is fairly intriguing to start with but does get a bit bogged down before becoming thrillerish a bit too late in the game. It was the last in a run of popular films that writer-director … Continue reading →