Archive for December, 2009
The Melodramatists by Howard Nemerov
Posted by labeau on December 31st, 2009 filed in books
Howard Nemerov was a Pulitizer Prize winning Poet, but his fiction is less well-known. The Melodramatists was published in 1949, in-between the appearances of his first (The Image & the Law, 1947) and second (Guide to the Ruins, 1950) collections of poetry. He went on to write several books of short stories, but this was [...]
Read More..>>A Graveyard to Let by Carter Dickson
Posted by labeau on December 12th, 2009 filed in books
Published in 1949
Sir Henry Merrivale, the British detective known as H.M., made a fictional name for himself by solving complicated locked-room mysteries. In 1949 he took a trip to the United States (with a letter in hand for Harry Truman) and found himself competing with the New York police to crack a swimming pool [...]