Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. Just before Christmas, Col persuaded me that 1950 would be a good year to look at, so here goes.
If you want to take part, you can! When you’ve written your post, just let me know below. I’ll gather them all together at the end of the month.
Anyone can play, so over to you…
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- 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.
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It is awfully nice of you, Rich! The month and year I was born. I’m in but still have to choose which book to read. Might re-read Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train to begin with.
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I think I shall read Joanna Cannan’s Murder Included, as she is an author I have been meaning to try.
If anyone else needs any ideas here are a few others from 1950:
Gladys Mitchell – Groaning Spinney
Edmund Crispin – Frequent Hearses
Helen McCloy – Through a Glass Darkly
Erle Stanley Gardner – The One-Eyed Witness
Christianna Brand – Cat and Mouse
Rex Stout – Three Doors to Death
In the Best Families
Christie – A Murder is Announced
Friedrich Durrenmatt – The Judge and His Hangman
Stuart Palmer – The Green Ace
Patricia Wentworth – The Ivory Dagger
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Very helpful list, thanks! I will do something but as ever haven’t decided what…
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I’ll take Night At The Mocking Widow by Carter Dickson
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Oh, and probably Double, Double by Ellery Queen as well.
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Count me in; I have The Footprints of Satan by Norman Berrow itching to be read, and will have a look around for anything else I can contribute…
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Actually, since the Doctor is taking Night at the Mocking Widow, let’s make it a clean sweep of Carr for 1950 and I’ll do The Bride of Newgate as well.
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It’s like you people are challenging me to say something new about A Murder Is Announced! I might give it a try! I may also review the film DOA because it is quintessential noir! 1950 was a very good year for films…Can I review Sunset Boulevard as a crime film? Some people consider it noirish…
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I would count Sunset Boulevard, though it is more of an inverted mystery in that we know someone has been killed, we’re just seeing how it happened. And I also definitely think you should do something on A Murder is Announced (no pressure or anything!)
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I will be reading Blood Will Tell by George Bagby. It was on a list of books to read in 2015, so thanks for pushing me to finally get to it early in 2016.
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I’m in….I’ll have to sort through the TBR stacks and see what’s available.
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Mine is THE DROWNING POOL by Ross Macdonald
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My review is up at http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/review-drowning-pool-ross-macdonald.html
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First one! Hunt with the Hounds by Mignon G. Eberhart
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Wow Bev, I haven’t even begun to think about it yet!
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Here is my review of Joanna Cannan’s Murder Included:
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Here’s my review of two great 1950 noir films:
https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/1950-a-very-good-year-for-noir/
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And a second offering: Murder at Arroways by Helen Reilly
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Here are two classic mysteries: https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/two-village-mysteries-from-1950/
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Here’s my first one – The Footprints of Satan by Norman Berrow.
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And….a third Hardly a Man Is Now Alive by Herbert Brean. There are places on the internet that place this as a 1952 publication–but my copy definitely says 1950.
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Night At The Mocking Widow – best mystery to feature the lead detective dressed as an Indian chief while instigating a mud fight at a village fair… https://classicmystery.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/night-at-the-mocking-widow-by-carter-dickson/
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Damn, why are all the best ideas taken?
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Oh, should have added “… for absolutely no plot-related reason whatsoever”
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And here’s my second one: The Bride of Newgate by Carr
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I do have a review posted for Blood Will Tell by George Bagby. At Bitter Tea and Mystery, posted on January 20th.
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Got it 🙂
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