The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food (1939) is a cookbook written by scientists from the Institute of Nutrition of the Academy of Medical Scientists of the USSR.
For anybody wishing to take part in another challenge this month, the year (chosen by Moira from Clothes in Books) is 1939. To quote Winston Churchill from that year:
We must not underrate the gravity of the task which lies before us or the temerity of the ordeal, to which we shall not be found unequal. We must expect many disappointments, and many unpleasant surprises, but we may be sure that the task which we have freely accepted is one not beyond the compass and the strength of the crime blogging community.
All you have to do is review a crime novel/story/film first published in 1939, and make sure you tell me about it somehow. Then at the end of the month, I’ll fashion a post bringing them all together.
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Oh Rich, you’ve obviously bagged the best one already, with the Russian cookbook.
I’m glad 1939 met with your approval….
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Do I have to have my own blog to write a review? 1939 is a favorite year of mine!!
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Hi there
I’m happy to put a suitable review on here as a guest post, if you’d like to do that. Or I could link out to a review on Amazon or Goodreads.
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Where do you want my ideas about 1939? Send it here in a comment or somewhere else? Marni
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Hi Marni, just do your post at Auntie M Writes and I’ll link to it when I do my round-up.
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1939… Geoffrey Household’s ‘Rogue Male’, Agatha Christie’s ‘Ten Little Niggers’ and Eric Ambler’s ‘Mask of Dimitrios’. Three real classics. Anything else of note happen that year???
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Anything else of note happen that year???
Well, there was The Spy in Black, the first Powell ‘n’ Pressburger movie. I was writing about it yesterday, and will be posting my piece soonish. Rich: How do I inform you when I’ve done this? Leave a comment here?
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Yep, just leave a comment and I’ll link it up later.
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Hey thanks. I think I’ll tackle the Ambler. I actually started it awhile back. Now I have an incentive to finish it.
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Hi, Rich. My notes on The Spy in Black have accordingly been posted: http://noirencyclopedia.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/spy-in-black-the-1939/.
If I get time during the month to post another 1939 offering or two, I’ll let you know again!
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I’ve had a go at FOOTPRINTS ON THE CEILING by Clayton Rawson – what fun http://reactionstoreading.com/2014/07/09/musings-on-footprints-on-the-ceiling-by-clayton-rawson/
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Rich, I have two book reviews for 1939:
http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2014/07/double-for-death-rex-stout.html
and
http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2014/07/death-has-past-anita-boutell.html
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Duly noted – thanks Tracy 🙂
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Rich, Latimer’s Red Gardenias for me – and in time! http://col2910.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/jonathan-latimer-red-gardenias.html
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Here’s a minor worry. I thought I’d re-read Ambler’s Cause for Alarm, which according to the copyright page of the Ambler omnibus Intrigue was, like Dimitrios, published in 1939. But I’ve just checked with Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ambler#Novels) and it seems both the 1939 dates were for first US publication: Cause for Alarm is actually a 1938 book, and Dimitrios a 1937 book.
Oops.
I’m hugely enjoying Cause for Alarm nevertheless, but . . .
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No worries at all – what’s a few months between friends 🙂
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Just posted! Actually I’ve got two 1939 coming in August too, oh well!
http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2014/07/polly-wants-killer-case-of-perjured.html
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Taking you at your word that Ambler’s Cause for Alarm as eligible as The Mask of Dimitrios, I’ve posted a very hurried note at Goodreads..
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Oops: “is as eligible”.
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Duly noted – sounds like the atmosphere was very similar to Mask of Dimitrios.
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