by Mary As this novel opens, Leslie Seaforth and his fiancee Joyce Hazlemere are visiting the Struan Museum. Its eccentric collection inclu...

by Eric Years ago I purchased a Dover trade paperback edition of C. Daly King's 1935 novel Obelists Fly High. Dover's catalog fe...

by Mary When I was in my mid-teens my favourite teacher was the fellow who taught the English class. Given our age group, my classmates ...

by Mary Much of the plot of The Twenty-One Clues revolves around members of the dwindling congregation of the Church of Awakened Israel, ...

by Mary I collect unusual words and recently learned a new one: slum-gullian, courtesy of a gent we know in Virginia who also provided a p...

by Eric “April is the cruellest month….” wrote T.S. Elliot in The Wasteland. Which just goes to show he should've got out more. Specif...

by Mary Detective Murray Wigan relates a number of cases solved with the assistance of Charles Quarles, professor of philosophy. A ghastly...