Tag Archives: Carter Dickson

“Was she getting sunbonnets on the brain?” #1943book roundup

Posted on March 1, 2017 by pastoffences

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Thanks to everyone who submitted a review for the February 2017 Crimes of the Century challenge to review a book or film from 1943. Tracy at Bitter Tea and Mystery celebrated five years of blogging this month, and celebrated by sharing … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Carter Dickson, E. R. Punshon, Elizabeth Daly, Frances and Richard Lockridge, James M Cain, John Rhode, John Stephen Strange, Patricia Wentworth, Raymond Chandler | 10 Comments

‘I ‘ave ‘alf a mind to ‘ave ye keelhauled, ye blithering ape!’ #1946book

Posted on November 30, 2014 by pastoffences

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Welcome to the round-up page for this month’s crime-fiction-of-the-year challenge. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and as usual I apologise in advance if I’ve missed your entry. I’m bound to have missed somebody. Last month John at Pretty Sinister Books brought … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged 1940s, 1946, Agatha Christie, Carter Dickson, Clothes in Books, Col's Criminal Library, In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel, Josephine Tey, Noirish, Norbert Davis, Peggy Ann's Post, Pretty Sinister Books, The Art of Words, The Game's Afoot, Wade Miller | 14 Comments

Bodies for Fun with a Pencil: The #1939book crime round-up

Posted on August 2, 2014 by pastoffences

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Last month I threw down the gauntlet and asked my contributors to pick a year as a theme for July. Moira from Clothes in Books stepped forward with 1939. It was a stonking (as Moira would say) year for crime: … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged 1930s, 1939, Bitter Tea and Mystery, Carter Dickson, Clayton Rawson, Eric Ambler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Noirish, Passing Tramp, Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout | 14 Comments

John Dickson Carr: It Walks by Night

Posted on November 13, 2013 by pastoffences

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It Walks by Night John Dickson Carr First published in the UK 1930 This edition Penguin Books, 1966 192 pages Source: City Bookshop, Norwich ‘You have overlooked a very solid substance which by every law of sanity should be right here … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged 1930s, Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr, Penguin Books, US | 5 Comments

A bumper crop: Classic crime in the blogosphere, August 2013

Posted on September 1, 2013 by pastoffences

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Well good grief, I was swamped with classic crime entrants this month. I’m sure I’ve missed some, but I’ve done my best to read them all. Obviously the blogosphere has been awash with tributes to Elmore Leonard, one of the … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged A Penguin a Week, Anthony Berkeley, Beneath the Stains of Time, Billy Wilder, Bitter Tea and Mystery, Carter Dickson, David Forrest, Dilys Winn, Dorothy L Sayers, G. K. Chesterton, Gerald Laing, H. R. F. Keating, Kirkus, Maj Sjowall, Michael Gilbert, Per Wahloo, Petrona Remembered, The Consulting Detective, The Dusty Bookcase, Vulpes Libre | 5 Comments

Classic crime round-up for October 2012

Posted on October 31, 2012 by pastoffences

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October was less crowded with classic crime activity than September, but still presented me with some great reviews and articles to collect together here (and to think when I started this blog I thought classic crime was a neglected area…).

More Galleries | Tagged A. S. Byatt, Arthur Upfield, Black Mask, Carter Dickson, Colin Dexter, Ellery Queen, Inspector Morse, Jacques Barzun, John Dickson Carr, Josephine Tey, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Margaret Millar, Margery Allingham, Val Biro, Victor Canning | 3 Comments

Classic crime in the blogosphere, September 2012

Posted on September 29, 2012 by pastoffences

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This is my second month of my monthly ‘best of the blogs’ devoted to classic crime, and my task has been complicated by two factors: 1. I forgot to make notes as I went along. 2. The crime ‘zine Crime … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged Adam Hall, Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Carter Dickson, Derek Raymond, Ed McBain, Fredric Brown, Hard Case Crime, Hercule Poirot, John Dickson Carr, Maj Sjowall, Margery Allingham, Marian Babson, Per Wahloo, Roger Ormerod, Rufus King, Simon Rattray | 5 Comments

Six months in…

Posted on July 17, 2012 by pastoffences

I’ve been blogging for six months as of today, which I have taken as an invitation to write a history of Past Offences so far. My first post was about Brahms and Simon’s comic classic A Bullet in the Ballet, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic mystery book review, Information Received | Tagged Carter Dickson, classic crime review, Edgar Allen Poe, John Dickson Carr | 6 Comments

Colonel March on YouTube

Posted on May 19, 2012 by pastoffences

Browsing YouTube tonight I’ve made a real discovery. Somebody called TellyComedyAndDrama has uploaded all 26 episodes of the 1950s TV series Colonel March, based on the Carter Dickson character – ‘the leading nosey-body in the world,’ according to his Scotland … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic mystery book review, Golden Age detection, Witness Statements | Tagged 1950s, Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr, TV | 2 Comments

More 70s blurbs

Posted on January 19, 2012 by pastoffences

Some more classic blurbs from the hard-working marketing team at Belmont Tower Books, New York, 1974, culled from the back pages of Carter Dickson’s The Bowstring Murders. These are all titles from a single series, with as far as I … Continue reading →