by Neil Albert | May 16, 2022 | Blog Posts
Late to the Party Chapter Two opens with the appearance at the courthouse of Amy Miner, Fred’s wife. She is highly upset but Cross manages to get out of her that a ransom demand of fifty thousand dollars has been made,...
by Neil Albert | May 11, 2022 | Blog Posts
A STRONG BEGINNING The Opening Line is, “I met the boy on the morning of the kidnapping.” Nobody can stop reading at that point The narrator, Howard Cross, a probation officer, arrives at work...
by Neil Albert | May 6, 2022 | Blog Posts
A SERIOUSLY UNDERAPPRECIATED BOOK Where’s Lew? “Negative space, in art, is the empty space around and...
by Neil Albert | May 1, 2022 | Blog Posts
Writer’s Block I am reading Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, by Ruth Franklin. My knowledge of Shirley Jackson is limited to The Haunting of Hill House and...
by Neil Albert | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog Posts
Spoiler Alert Summing up An Advance over His Previous Book The Way Some People Die was cleverly plotted, with vivid characters and unexpected turns, but it is...
by Neil Albert | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog Posts
BORROWINGS AND FORESHADOWINGS One of the pleasures of reading a mystery series is tracing material from one source to another. Macdonald lived in a world where regular and frequent publication was essential to his...
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