MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Two

by | May 11, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue

                                       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...

MEET ME AT THE MOURGE Part One

by | May 6, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue

                      A SERIOUSLY UNDERAPPRECIATED BOOK                                                                                                                               Where’s Lew? “Negative space, in art, is the empty space around and...

Failing to Progress

by | 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...

The Ivory Grin — Part Thirteen

by | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Ivory Grin

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...

The Ivory Grin — Part Twelve

by | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Ivory Grin

                       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...