Tag: Helene Hanff
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“Murder to Music”: Helene Hanff Writes for Ellery Queen
In 84, Charing Cross Road (her compilation of correspondence with a London bookstore over two decades), New York writer Helene Hanff describes a new project that may earn her enough money to finally visit England: writing for Ellery Queen, which was being adapted to television. The name was only vaguely familiar to me from long-ago…
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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,…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 