Look, this is a bit embarrassing. I don’t think I’ll be finishing the crime-fiction-of-the-year (1967) round-up on time this month. First one I’ve missed in almost a year.
However, don’t let that stand in the way of April. Lucy @richmondie has chosen a year for us – 1936 – so here is a sign-up page for all you bloggers. All you have to do is read a book, watch a film, read a comic, listen to a radio programme, from 1936, and tell us all about it.
Anyone can play, so over to you…
Small print
- Don’t be shy!
- Just comment below to link to your blog post.
- 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.
- Books, comics, films, plays and TV also welcome.
- Sorry in advance if I miss you in the round-up, although I am getting better at that bit.
Past Offences: Classic crime, thrillers and mystery book reviews 
As usual I’ll try to cover a movie or two. Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn seems like a good place to start. Will have to think about a book . . .
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Sounds great. Already have too many ideas, and I may do a movie too.
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Unfortunately Maria Marten is from 1935, not 1936. But I’ve watched and written about three others instead . . .
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I’m back for more. This time my definite is The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey by John Dickson Carr. I may do more–depending on how the TBR stack goes.
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I’m in too. Now to decide on the book.
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A SHILLING FOR CANDLES, Josephine Tey
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Oops, blog tells me I’ve already read this. I’ll have to think again
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I’ll try for Ngaio Marsh’s DEATH IN ECSTASY but It will have to come from the library
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My review is here: http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/review-death-in-ecstasy-ngaio-marsh.html
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I’m searching for a book to participate, count with me.
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY , Jmaes M. Cain
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That’s a good one.
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As ever, I’m definitely in but haven’t chosen a book yet. And, you have done such a fantastic job with this meme over the past year, you shouldn’t worry about timeliness!
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NGAIO MARSH, DEATH IN ECSTASY I think.
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Most annoying. I don’t own many classics but I have books from 1935 and 1937 lying unread on the TBR mountain. Toddling off to see what the library can offer…
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ooohhh looks like I’ll finally be able to go Aussie…Arthur Upfield’s Wings Above the Diamantina is available 🙂
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I almost chose that one…it’s also on my TBR stack. I’ll be interested to see what you think of it.
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I’ll see what I have….
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I had a Reggie Fortune book pulled from my shelves for last month but never got to it. And of course it’s the wrong year. I still want to read one of H.C. Bailey’s books and luckily I have nearly all of them. So I’m choosing the only one published in 1936: A CLUE FOR MR FORTUNE.
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John, you are lucky to have any HC Bailey books!
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I found one in a charity shop the other week. ‘Black Land, White Land’.
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All going well, I’ll be reading Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1936). A few nights ago, by sheerest happenstance, I saw the 1937 movie based on this novel; it popped up on t’telly just as I walked into the living room, and for once I sat down and watched. So, when I came across the novel while browsing through an ESG bibliography just now, I thought This Must Be A Sign.
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Wish I lived where you live…all that ever seems to be on my tele is infomercials and reality tv and it’s been years since I noticed a classic movie in the guide
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It was (I think) on TCM. I thought you had TCM in Oz?
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I’m in. I have John Bude’s THE SUSSEX DOWNS MURDER scheduled for my podcast/blog for the last week in April, because its official British Library Crime Classics pub date in the US is May 5.
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And…my review for Carr’s The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
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Here’s my review of Thankyou, Mr Moto by JP Marquand: http://wordcount-richmonde.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/thankyou-mr-moto.html
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Some scrappy Goodreads notes on Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1936) are here
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A first movie offering: I’d Give My Life (1936).
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This is my first time participating in this monthly round-up, and I have approached it in a slightly offbeat way, writing about a novel that probably none of you can read, and I can’t either, but whose historic and literary interest is self-evidently above average: Mercè Rodoreda’s Catalan-language “Crim,” a full-blown parody of the country house mystery.
http://bookthemdanno.blogspot.mx/2015/04/crime-fiction-of-year-1936-crim-merce.html
My blog, Book ’em, Danno!, is a books-and-movies-and general-culture blog, a successor to an earlier, similar effort called Patrick Murtha’s Diary. I also have another blog called Querétaro encantador which focuses on my life in the wonderful Mexican city of Querétaro.
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I have a review for A Shilling for Candles by Tey at Bitter Tea and Mystery.
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A small hidden gem in public domain, Sabotage (1936) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, my post will soon be ready.
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Another movie offering: Seven Sinners (1936; vt Doomed Cargo.
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And finally from me (phew!): Missing Girls (1936).
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That’s a 1936 hat trick!
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Of movies, yes . . . but there’s a book up there too. 🙂
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Here’s my review of John Bude’s “The Sussex Downs Murder” at http://www.classicmysteries.net/2015/04/the-sussex-downs-murder.html
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Here we go – a Western. Am I in, or will I get evicted? Dane Coolidge – Texans Die Hard. http://col2910.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/dane-coolidge-texans-die-hard-1936.html
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