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Tag Archives: Richard Dalby
Hammett: Killer Critic
Will Murray, pulp historian and latter-day Kenneth Robeson, just sent me a link to “a biographical page about a writer who committed suicide a few months after his last book received a scathing review by Dashiell Hammett.” The bio on … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, News
Tagged Doug Anderson, J. Aubrey Tyson, literary suicides, Richard Dalby, Will Murray
Rediscovered: A Ghost-Seer for Halloween
Leading up to Halloween I finally picked up my 1998 Ash-Tree Press edition of Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice and Claude Askew and read through. A solid set of eight British occult detective tales, all published in two months — … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Alice and Claude Askew, Ash-Tree Press, E.G. Swain, Hugh Lamb, Jack Adrian, M.P. Dare, Richard Dalby, The Great War, William Hope Hodgson
