EDITED by OTTO PENZLER Never was there a more apt title for a book than this. It is huge. Penzler, pulp and crime editor extraordinaire, has complied dozens of Yuletide stories into 650 pages of deliciously dastardly holiday cheer. He has categorized them into bunches like Traditional, Funny, Sherlockian, Pulpy, Uncanny, Modern, Scary and…
Books for Christmas
Today I’d like to highlight a few books that I’ve read recently and can recommend as Christmas gifts for the reader on your list. SHADOW WOMAN: THE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF PAULINE BENTON by Grant Hayter-Menzies This is a warm, vivid biography of an unusual circumstance. Born to a wealthy and enlightened family in the late…
31 Days of Halloween — October 25, 2013
“The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners – no possible sliding panels – it was flooded…
REVIEW: THE GRAND TOUR – AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY by Agatha Christie
Perhaps it comes as no surprise that this book is a wonderful window into an era past. Like Agatha Christie’s autobiography, the book is comprised of her life in her own words. Her grandson Mathew Prichard has painstakingly gathered her letters and postcards from her trip to a countries in the Dominion. She and…
REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY: AGATHA CHRISTIE
An Autobiography As much as I love biographies, I’m often hesitant about autobiographies. Everyone has an interesting story — that doesn’t meant they know how to tell it. There is no doubt Dame Agatha Christie knew how to tell a story. Hundreds of them. But her best may be her own. She begins at the…