MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Four

                                 An Encounter with Tiresias     Following the instructions in the ransom note, Cross goes to the drop off point at the train station next to the newsstand. A lesser writer would have obtained a lead from the newsstand operator...

MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Three

                                     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,...

MEET ME AT THE MOURGE Part One

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

Failing to Progress

                                                                                                  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

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...