Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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“Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure”: Jack Batten and Michael Bliss on the Annexation Threat
Well, this is fun. (Not sure about the AI-generated image, however, based on a prompt of “Sherlock Holmes in Canada.” The hat’s all wrong.) This is courtesy of Jackie Shead’s Atwood book, which includes a reference to a historical curiosity of a story, first published in the Globe & Mail nearly a half century ago.…
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Recent Research on Canadian Crime Fiction
I’m prepping spring/summer writing courses, and that had me looking up new and interesting sources about Canada-U.S. relations, in the hope that this will be an engaging topic for class members. Serendipitously, one of the first articles to turn up was about crime fiction–Robert M. Timko’s recent article on the first nine seasons of Murdoch…
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Helene Hanff’s 84, Charing Cross Road: A Love Letter
Today is the 75th anniversary of my favourite letter in this volume, Helene Hanff’s flurry of correspondence with a London bookseller over a couple of decades. Probably better known for the film adaptation starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, it is a lovely little book. Practically perfect. Hanff was a screenplay reader and sometime writer,…
