Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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New Year’s Eve: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Nine Tailors and the Pealing of the Church Bells
“From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the uproar of the internal combustion engine and the wailing of the jazz band should be so sensitive to the one loud noise that is made to the glory of God.” In her Foreword…
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Pat Capponi’s Socially-Conscious Crime Fiction
Yesterday I walked downtown fairly early in the morning, just after seven. There was a glorious sunrise. Shades of purple and pink, a veritable Homeric rosy-fingered dawn. And then, along Pandora Street, where I’d intended to pick up a greasy breakfast sandwich as my reward for an early morning irksome errand, I was daunted by…
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Investigating Frances Shelley Wees
Frances Shelley Wees (1902-82), a now largely neglected crime writer, was so popular during the 1950s and 60s that she was known as “the Agatha Christie of Canada.” And thanks to Véhicule Press’s Ricochet Books, two of her mystery-suspense novels have been re-issued over the last decade. An American-born author of educational works and children’s…
