Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. I’ve called it Crimes of the Century.
In February I’ve picked 1943, when, as it turns out, you could already buy a Motorola for your mobile communication needs.
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…
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 
Well, it was a skip year for Dame Agatha, but some books to consider:
She Died A Lady – Carter Dickson
Dead On The Track & Men Die At Cypress Lodge – John Rhode
Dead Stop & Murder MD – Miles Burton
Colour Scheme – Ngaio Marsh
There Was An Old Woman – Ellery Queen
Death Deals A Double – John Bude
The Affair At Little Wokeham – Freeman Wills Crofts
The House Of Shadows – J Jefferson Farjeon
Reverse The Charges – Brian Flynn
The Weight Of The Evidence – Michael Innes
The Worsted Viper & Sunset Over Soho – Gladys Mitchell
The Conqueror Inn – E R Punshon
That should do for starters, several of those are available. I’ll be looking at a couple of the Rhode/Burton books and my new discovery Brian Flynn, as that one happens to be the other book than I managed to find recently…
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1943 is the year of the US publishing for Agatha Christie’s THE MOVING FINGER (1942 in UK)
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Wasn’t sure how flexible we were being…
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Actually it was first published in US in 1942 and in UK in 1943. The 1942 US edition is a shorter version.
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(continuing)
shorter by about 9000 words.
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The review is at http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/review-moving-finger-agatha-christie.html
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Thanks Kerrie
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I’ve just got past 1943 in my Marsh/Allingham/Brand chronological read, and my Colour Scheme review is already up, but I should also point out: Raymond Chandler – The Lady in the Lake.
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I have The Conqueror Inn, s Bobby Owen Mystery by E.R. Punshon in my Kindle.
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I will try either Greene’s MINISTRY OF FEAR or Cain’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY – or both if you’re really lucky Rich 😉
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I will hopefully be reviewing Elizabeth Daly’s Evidence of Things Seen and Look Your Last by John Stephen Strange.
So other ideas for people are:
The Man Who Was Not There by Ethel Lina White
Skeleton Key by Lenore Glen Offord
The Mouse in the Mountain by Norbert Davis
The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth
The Black Rustle by Constance and Gwenyth Little
File for Record by Alice Tilton
Going, Going, Gone and Proof of the Pudding by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
It Began in New York by Milward Kennedy
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Good year, even if the Mistress took a year off! Now we’re going places . . . 🙂
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Oh, and it was ANOTHER great year for Hitchcock: Shadow of a Doubt!
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I am absolutely spoiled for choice on my TBR pile (I really do need to read more books faster…). Here are my possibles (from several most likely to others):
All For the Love of a Lady by Leslie Ford [there may be some dispute on this one–gadetection & Stop You’re Killing Me sites both list 1944–but I own two copies: Bantam and Popular Library and they both give 1943 as original date….I plan on reading this one regardless because it works for our Tuesday Night Bloggers meme with February’s theme “Love (& Murder) in Bloom]
The Thursday Turkey Murders by Craig Rice
Murderer’s Choice by Anna Wells
Dead as a Dummy by Geoffrey Homes
Said with Flowers by Anne Nash
Death Takes a Bow by Frances & Richard Lockridge
This Is Murder, Mr. Jones by Timothy Fuller
Old Bones by Herman Petersen
He Fell Down Dead by Virginia Perdue
A Variety of Weapons by Rufus King
Siren in the Night by Leslie Ford
Having Wonderful Crime by Craig Rice
Eleven Came Back by Mabel Seeley
Cats Prowl at Night by A. A. Fair
Juliet Dies Twice by Lange Lewis
Without Lawful Authority by Manning Coles
The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner
Experiment Perilous by Margaret Carpenter
Death in the Doll’s House by Hannah Lees
Unidentified Woman by Mignon G. Eberhart
The Clue in the Jewel Box by Carolyn Keene
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Yikes! I came THIS CLOSE to buying the Gardner book on Friday. Better hurry back to that used bookstore!
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Run, Brad, Run!
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Agatha Christie’s THE MOVING FINGER was published in the US in 1943, so that will be my choice.
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I just read ‘She Died a Lady’ over christmas so I’m going to go for that! Will link here after. Thanks
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As usual I didn’t own anything eligible but thanks to Kate’s list above I have now procured the audio version of Patricia Wentworth’s The Chinese Shawl. Another new-to-me author
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I’m going to go for Gladys again, as really enjoyed my choice from her as January book.
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I am going to read Laura by Vera Caspary. Been wanting to read it for a while and got a copy in Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s published by Library of American back in 2015.
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Here’s my first entry: Death Takes a Bow by Frances & Richard Lockridge
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Thanks Bev
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Here is my review of Strange’s novel:
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Heres my entry: She Died A Lady by Carter Dickson
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Two Rhode/Burton reviews – Men Die At Cypress Lodge (in which, um, some men die at a house called… you guessed it) https://classicmystery.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/men-die-at-cyprus-lodge-by-john-rhode/ and Murder, M.D. (in which a doctor is murdered) https://classicmystery.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/murder-m-d-by-miles-burton-aka-john-rhode/
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Yes, the first title is quite explicit. The second title is also explicit in the US where the title is ” Who Killed The Doctor?”
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Here’s my first movie offering for this month: The Black Raven (1943).
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One definite: The Thursday Turkey Murders by Craig Rice
And one “maybe” (although, you did let me sneak one in last time, so I may be pushing it 😉 ): All for the Love of a Lady by Leslie Ford
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I’m working on a Carr review, but meanwhile here are some thoughts on Hitchcock’s 1943 masterpiece, Shadow of a Doubt: https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/its-all-relative-hitchcocks-shadow-of-a-doubt/
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Another movie entry: the first Inner Sanctum mystery, “Calling Dr. Death!”
https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/calling-dr-death-the-wonderful-world-of-the-inner-sanctum/
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Here’s my first entry The Conqueror Inn by E. R. Punshon https://jiescribano.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/review-the-conqueror-inn-a-bobby-owen-mystery-1943-by-e-r-punshon/
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A philandering ventriloquist is murdered in the music hall! Did the dummy do it? Jack Warner stars in The Dummy Talks (1943).
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Here we go: Gladys Mitchell’s The Worsted Viper http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/dress-down-sunday-book-of-1943-larkin.html
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Finally! I have a book to add, and like Dan above, I have reviewed Carter Dickson’s She Died a Lady! https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/step-by-footstep-carter-dicksons-she-died-a-lady/
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My turn again – The Goblin Market by Helen McCloy is up at my site now. https://classicmystery.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/the-goblin-market-by-helen-mccloy/
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My third and (unless I change my mind) last relevant movie has just gone up on Noirish: Paris After Dark (1943), with George Sanders, Brenda Marshall and Philip Dorn.
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Just posted my review of Greene’s MINISTRY OF FEAR: https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/ministry-of-fear-1943-by-graham-greene/
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Here’s mine: The D.A.’s Daughter by Herman Petersen. This may be it from me for the year. It’s been fun.
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Here’s mine:
The Mouse in the Mountain by Norbert Davis
http://inkquilletc.blogspot.in/2017/02/1943-mouse-in-mountain-by-norbert-davies.html
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Hello — I’ve posted a review of TIED FOR MURDER by Cortland Fitzsimmons:
http://www.jasonhalf.com/blog/book-review-tied-for-murder-1943-by-cortland-fitzsimmons
Thanks as always for hosting the enjoyable review round-up!
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It is nearly the end of the month and I almost forgot to let you know that I have posted my review of Laura by Vera Caspary. On my blog at Bitter Tea and Mystery on February 22, 2017.
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I’d be interested in that! Link?
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Sorry, John, but when I put in a link at this blog (and some other wordpress blogs) the comment just disappears. Maybe Rich will add the link later.
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Found it. I’m not sure how it slipped past me when you first posted it.
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Here you go Tracy 🙂 http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/laura-vera-caspary.html
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Should get one more done before the end of the month… Don’t post the summary too quickly, Rich!
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And here it is – the inexplicably named Reverse The Charges by Brian Flynn https://classicmystery.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/reverse-the-charges-by-brian-flynn/
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Here is my final offering for 1943:
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My final review for 1943 – DOUBLE INDEMNITY: https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/double-indemnity-1943-by-james-m-cain/
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Scraping in under the wire, The Weight Of The Evidence: https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2017/02/The_Weight_Of_The_Evidence__Michael_Innes.html
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Here is my second entry SHE DIED A LADY if I arrive on time: https://jiescribano.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/review-she-died-a-lady-1943-by-carter-dickson/
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