Cannon Street police relax with a game of darts in 1946 – note the carefully balanced watering can (taken from http://www.alphadeltaplus.20m.com/)
Welcome to this month’s crime fiction of the year sign-up page.
John from Pretty Sinister Books won last month’s spookiest book competition, with a bit of Fu-Manchu from 1932. His choice for November is 1946. A year when the world starting picking up the pieces (and began working on the next batch of trouble).
It seems like 1946 was a quiet year for new books, although there was Titus Groan, Stella Gibbons’ Westwood (a book I still have to read) and of course Thomas the Tank Engine.
Anyway, over to you for the crime fiction. Looks like ’46 was a massive year for crime films, so I’m expecting a few movie reviews as well…
Small print
- Don’t be shy!
- Books, comics, films, plays and TV also welcome.
- If you want to play but you haven’t got a blog, I’m happy to have you as a guest poster, or to link to Goodreads or Amazon.
- Comment below to join in, or tweet me @westwoodrich.
- Sorry if I miss you in the round-up.
Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews 
I’m going to try Act of Passion by Simenon based on Jose Ignacio’s recommendation of his non-Maigret novels.
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And it’s actually a #1947book: I’ve learned not to trust publication dates in GoodReads lists from this experience.
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Hm. Movies, eh? How would Night Boat to Dublin suit? Or Green for Danger?
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I was happy with the choice of 1946 because I had just gotten a copy of a book from that year that I want to read soon: Murder Within Murder by Richard and Frances Lockridge.
Lots of good books from this year. My favorite Nero Wolfe mystery (well, after Fer-de-Lance) was published in 1946: The Silent Speaker. But I will probably read just one book for 1946 this month.
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Well past time I got involved in this. I’ll do My Late Wives by Carter Dickson
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The review is now up on my blog.
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Quick work! Thanks Steve.
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First time in. I’ll read Agatha Christie’s The Hollow. I’ll have to check out the movie front too!
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I’ll have to look up a book for this year, I’ve not a clear candidate yet
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Definitely sign me up, though haven’t chosen a book yet. 1946 an interesting year, I’ll need to look around.
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Will try to contribute to this one. Not sure what yet……
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Just ordered William Gresham’s Nightmare Alley from the library – looks like a bleak read! Looked everywhere for Seishi Yokomizo’s The Murder in the Honjin but couldn’t seem to source an English translation anywhere
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Bernadette, as far I know only one of Seishi Yokomizo’s books was translated into English: The Inugami Clan There are two different editions of that book in English. I think a graphic novel adapatation also exists. If you read French you can find at least four others translated into that language.
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Sign me up. I intend to read THE UNSUSPECTED CHASM
by Michael Innes.
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Look forward to it!
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Mine’s up already, Rich. Told you this would get me to finish that book! Here’s the link: Where There’s Love, There’s Hate. It’s the first English translation of a short novel by a couple of Argentinian writers. How’s that for esoteric?
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Oops. Forgot to close off that hyperlink properly. Sorry.
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Oddly, second review of this I’ve seen this month – unrelated to this challenge (I think)
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John, I was just looking through my books to see what I might try for my maiden post in this crime event. I read this one earlier this year for the Bingo challenge! Off to check out your review.
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Rich have ordered today (downloaded to my Kindle in fact) Deadly Weapon by Wade Miller. Looking forward to reading it soon
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Just getting started on Miss Pym Disposes . . .
Reading time’s at a bit of a premium this week as I’m having to read two — countem two — sets of proofs for forthcoming masterpieces at breakneck speed.
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Good luck – what are they?
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A sort of rationalist book for YAs — it was originally called The Young Person’s Guide to Bullshit but the publisher chickened out at the last minute so it’s now got a far blander title — and a second collection of my short stories.
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I’m going to try and join in this month–I’m looking at a 3-in-1 Detective Book Club with three from 1946–including Tracy’s pick (Murder Within Murder) which I’ve already read. I’m going to focus on the Erle Stanley Gardner portion: The D. A. Breaks a Seal. (Up next after I finish my current read.) We’ll see if I get to The Pavilion by Hilda Lawrence (the third of the three).
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Got one for you! The D. A. Breaks a Seal by Erle Stanley Gardner.
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And–an examination of three books from 1946 (including the Gardner book) for Noah’s October 8 challenge as well. HERE.
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Norbert Davis and Oh Murderer Mine for me. http://col2910.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/norbert-davis-oh-murderer-mine-1946.html
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The Hollow by Agatha Christie. http://peggyannspost.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-hollow-by-agatha-christie.html
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A very hasty writeup of Night Boat to Dublin (1946) here.
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