The Locked Room: Classic Mysteries in Review

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

If A Body Meet A Body, George Malcolm-Smith, Reviewed by Margaret Redfern, April 26, 1959


From the Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26, 1959:






Posted by Tony Renner at 8:55 AM 1 comment:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Newer Posts Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2022 (1)
    • ►  November (1)
  • ▼  2016 (1)
    • ▼  March (1)
      • If A Body Meet A Body, George Malcolm-Smith, Revie...
  • ►  2015 (15)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (5)
  • ►  2014 (19)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (6)

Popular Posts

  • If A Body Meet A Body, George Malcolm-Smith, Reviewed by Margaret Redfern, April 26, 1959
    From the Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26, 1959:
  • Swan Song, Edmund Crispin
    Gervase Fen makes his 4th appearance in Edmund Crispin's Swan Song (1947), which proves to be as much of a romantic comedy as a murd...
  • Weekend With Death, Patricia Wentworth
    Weekend With Death (1941) by Patricia Wentworth is her penultimate stand-alone mystery novel. Silence in Court (1945) was her final stand...
  • The G-String Murders, Gypsy Rose Lee
    When The G-String Murders (1941) hit the bookstore shelves, Gypsy Rose Lee, then only 28 years old, shined as the brightest start in burle...
  • The Glimpses of the Moon, Edmund Crispin

Evidence

  • Criminal Element
    Cooking the Books The Pumpkin Vice Cafe by Ellie Alexander - Our heavily pregnant series heroine Jules Capshaw is busy trying to ensure that everything at her beloved bakeshop Torte is fully prepared for her to final...
    2 hours ago
  • 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
    Torquay Books - I came home from Torquay with an interesting haul of books, and pride of place goes to Lucy Foley's latest. I'm pleased to say that Lucy has written an ...
    5 hours ago
  • Ontos
    "How Did а 19th-Century Detective Straight Out of Victorian London End Up Thwarting Nazi Plots іп 20th-Century World War II?" - *IT'S a question that has puzzled us, as well. Perhaps we should redesignate our sleuth as . . .* *"Sherlock Holmes, Time Traveler."* *By David A. Norris (...
    22 hours ago
  • MYSTERIES in PARADISE
    Review: THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS, Agatha Christie - - This edition read on my Kindle (AmazonAU) - ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0046RE5H2 - Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins, Publication date ‏ : ‎ 14 October 2010...
    1 day ago
  • In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel
    Marble Hall Murders (2025) by Anthony Horowitz - Susan Ryeland has had quite enough of murder, Alan Conway and Atticus Pünd. She’s come close to being killed twice while investigating the secrets that Con...
    1 day ago
  • The Rap Sheet
    Peter May Is Suddenly No More - I can hardly believe this to be true! Scottish playwright and screenwriter Janice Hally, the wife of award-winning novelist Peter May, posted word this mor...
    1 day ago
  • Vintage Pop Fictions
    Edmond Hamilton’s novella The Starcombers - Edmond Hamilton’s novella *The Starcombers* first appeared in *Science Fiction Adventures* in December 1956. Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was an American s...
    2 days ago
  • Mystery Fanfare
    PETER MAY: R.I.P. - This is such very sad news. *Peter May*, one of my favorite mystery authors and friend, passed away suddenly Saturday. He was truly one of a kind. I had ...
    2 days ago
  • Promoting Crime Fiction by Lizzie Hayes
    ‘The Chesil Beach Murders’ by Rachel McLean - *Published by Ackroyd Publishing, 4 September 2026.ISBN: 978-1-83560324-6 (PB)* The eleventh book in this series opens with the discovery of a man’s bo...
    2 days ago
  • Beneath the Stains of Time
    The Hangman's Tree (1949) by Dorothy Cameron Disney - Dorothy Cameron Disney was an American journalist, writer and columnist whose column, "Can This Marriage Be Saved," ran for three decades in *Ladies' Hom...
    2 days ago
  • Mystery*File
    Diary Review: BLACK MASK – June 1940. - BLACK MASK – June 1940. Editor: K. S. White. Cover artist: Rafael DeSoto. Overall rating: **½. ERLE STANLEY GARDNER “Tong Trouble” Ed Jenkins. Novelette. E...
    2 days ago
  • My Reader's Block
    The Man Who Killed Fortescue - *The Man Who Killed Fortescue* (1928) by Dorothy Stockbridge Tillett [originally under the name John Stephen Strange] Synopsis from the back of the boo...
    3 days ago
  • Tony Renner: Artist
    The Scientific Method: Blues on Demand -- Demand the Blues - A blues show built from what’s happening now — electric blues, soul, funk, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll, with artists who know the tradition without being tra...
    3 days ago
  • Type M for Murder
    More Than Nuts and Bolts - I'm a nuts-and-bolts type of writer, meaning I adopt a blue-collar approach to putting words on paper as opposed to getting all woo-woo about the process....
    4 days ago
  • Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?
    Come Into the Garden -- Susan Price - Susan Price's website can be found here... She does use words occasionally...
    5 days ago
  • Pretty Sinister Books
    MOONLIGHTERS - Lesley Frost, the Poet's Daughter - Part of discovering so-called forgotten writers and their books is that the discovery is actually more of a recovery. These books already exist and the p...
    6 days ago
  • Killer Covers
    “Never Cross a Vampire,” by Stuart M. Kaminsky -
    1 week ago
  • The Dusty Bookcase
    A Nellie McClung Manitoba Mystery - *The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories* *Nellie L. McClung* *Toronto: William Briggs, 1912**224 pages* We have here a collection of short sto...
    1 week ago
  • Tipping My Fedora
    57. Film Noir Fest 2026, with James Harrison - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7c2tk-1b58592 James Harrison of Film Noir UK joins Sergio to preview the 2026 Film Noir Fest, which is taking place ...
    1 week ago
  • The Cozy Mystery List Blog
    TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – September 2026 - School is back in session – and has been for about two weeks here in San Antonio. I have been trying to remember if school started this early in the year w...
    2 weeks ago
  • Death Can Read
    Paul Halter : La Chambre du fou, 1990 . ItalianTranslation: Igor Longo ( La Camera del pazzo, Mondadori, 2004). English Translation: John Pugmire (The Madman's Room, L.R.I., 2018) - Published in 1990, *Le Chambre du fou* is officially the fourth in the Alan Twist series, but in reality it is the fifth: the reason lies in the fact ...
    1 month ago
  • The Passing Tramp
    Down for a New Cornell Woolrich Biography? One's Coming (by Me) - I finally decided to commit to doing a Cornell Woolrich biography and have a publisher. Just a small one so I don't know how much publicity we can get, ...
    2 months ago
  • The Passing Tramp
    Down for a New Cornell Woolrich Biography? One's Coming (by Me) - I finally decided to commit to doing a Cornell Woolrich biography and have a publisher. Just a small one so I don't know how much publicity we can get, ...
    2 months ago
  • Small Crimes
    And the 2026 Edgar Award for Best Short Story... - The Julius Katz mysteries have now won an Edgar, Shamus, Derringer, and 2 Ellery Queen Readers awards.
    4 months ago
  • Crime Always Pays
    It’s Good to Talk: Why Dialogue is Fundamental - The reasons why humans developed complex speech are still contested, but as a writer it doesn’t really matter if it’s due to a uniquely shaped hyoid bone,...
    6 months ago
  • Alpha-60 Books
    Three Must Die! (Dan Gregory, 1956) - The last post was something like War and Peace, but I just couldn't stop myself. I'm redeeming myself with this short one.An amateur detective in a small t...
    11 months ago
  • In Reference to Murder
    Media Murder for Monday - It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news: THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES Roundtable Entertainment has green...
    3 years ago
  • Classic Mysteries
    The Agatha Awards - From somewhere in Cyberspace, the winners of this year's Agatha Awards for mystery writing were announced this evening at a virtual convention of mystery w...
    5 years ago
  • a hot cup of pleasure
    A New Home @ WordPress - Thanks for your visits and encouragement over the years. The blog has now been shifted to WordPress: https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/ Please ...
    6 years ago
  • Ivebeenreadinglately
    A post that is not quite a post - When I restarted this blog three weeks ago, I said that I would try to post most weeks, usually on Sunday mornings. That is still my plan, and there will d...
    6 years ago
  • The Post Modern Pulp Blog
    Fiction Friday: STONY MAN DOCTRINE - My first cover-to-cover read of 2020 was this classic. I first read STONY MAN DOCTRINE back in either junior high or high school - I can't recall which -...
    6 years ago
  • Mysterious Press
    We've just added American novelist and cartoonist Lawrence Lariar to our list! - Lawrence Lariar (1908–1981) was an American novelist, cartoonist and cartoon editor, known for his Best Cartoons of the Year series of cartoon collection...
    7 years ago
  • Writers No One Reads
    From wikipedia (which is based on this timeline): In 1977,... - From wikipedia (which is based on this timeline): In 1977, [Yayoi] Kusama published a book of poems and paintings entitled *7*. One year later, her firs...
    7 years ago
  • Detectives Beyond Borders
    Shot at the Edgars - Peter Lovesey, named an MWA Grand Master at the 2018 Edgar Awards. Photo by Peter Rozovsky for Detectives Beyond Borders. © Peter Rozovsky 2018
    8 years ago
  • Past Offences
    Reading wrap-up for July 2017 - I’ve had a bit of a rest for a couple of months, during which my blog traffic has gone through the roof, which fact should probably teach me something abou...
    9 years ago
  • Classic Mystery Hunt
    Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford - [image: Image result for rise of the robots book] When acquired by FB for billions of dollars Watsapp employed 55 employees, Youtube had 150 odd employees ...
    9 years ago
  • Book Dirt
    Jesus and Caligari: a Review of Upton Sinclair’s They Call Me Carpenter - They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair I confess that I never knew much about Upton Sinclair beyond the fact that he wrote the meat-packing industry exp...
    9 years ago
  • Vanished Into Thin Air
    Claude Aveline: La doppia morte dell’Ispettore Belot (La Double Mort de Frédéric Belot, 1932) – Translation: Cesare Giardini – Preface: Alberto Tedeschi – in appendix: Double note sur le roman policier en général et sur ​​cette “Suite”en particulier – Oscar Mondadori N. 1556 – August 1982 - More the time passes, more I find references to a question that springs to mind every time, and so I can not answer: why in 1932 were born many masterpie...
    9 years ago
  • Ed Gorman's blog
    Book Review: ZIGZAG by Bill Pronzini - ZIGZAG You can’t fake it, the kind of mastery Bill Pronzini shows in all his writing, whatever the genre, whatever the length. And his years of ...
    10 years ago
  • Hi-Fi Sci-Fi
    Preferred Risk by Frederick Pohl and Lester del Rey - Does for the insurance business what Pohl and Kornbluth's *The Space Merchants* did for the advertising world. As explained in the two afterwords (one b...
    11 years ago
  • Pfui
    William Shatner as Archie Goodwin?, March 14, 1959 - from *New York Times*, March 14, 1959. "William Shatner has been signed to star with Kurt Kasznar in a pilot film that may be the basis for a 'Nero Wolfe...
    14 years ago
Show 10 Show All
Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.