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  1. The latest chapter posted is 58, which has this at the end: That's followed by a “continued” link that takes you to a page that's headed “Chapter 59” and “Coming Soon.” But there's an updated copyright notice that extends to 2023, so that might be reason for continued optimism.
  2. I haven't seen Vera, but if you want to see Blethyn getting her teeth into a really unlikable character, catch her in Little Voice. She's astonishing.
  3. Pretty sure this is it. I remember reading it couple times in the distant past. https://codeysworld.com/viv/short-stories/days-of-silence.html
  4. There's no post like that on the blog at this point, and posting appears to have continued sporadically until February 2020. Anyone know what's behind that?
  5. The announcement in Coming Attractions referred to it as a “makeover.” Does this mean the text is revised or rewritten or only that the title is changed?
  6. My advice is read the book first. It's going to be hard for a film to capture the mood and character of the book and especially the protagonist, who's hilariously snotty and sarcastic but basically an embryonic good person. Plus films always have to cut out lots from books lest they last 12 hours, and there's too much good stuff in this one to miss.
  7. My Macdonald is Ross Macdonald. I've read all of his Lew Archer novels and short stories and loved them all. Definitely mysteries, but made all the more gripping by his handling of the psychology and motivations of his characters.
  8. I've apparently read one John Dickson Carr (writing as Carter Dickson) mystery, And so to Murder, since Amazon reminds me I bought a Kindle copy for 99¢ in 2017. I'll try a re-read, but Carr seems to go for the puzzle and locked-room mystery, and that variety doesn't appeal to me. Among those who wrote as Ellery Queen is Jack Vance, my all-time favorite science fiction and fantasy author, who did three EQ mysteries. I haven't read them, though. There are a number of good blogs devoted to golden-age mystery, and one of the best, well-informed and entertaining, is The Passing Tramp.
  9. Checking further I see the sidebar only infects threads with three or more pages.
  10. A sidebar containing essentially useless information has suddenly appeared in the topic "Golden Age" Detective Fiction in the Roamin' Reader forum. This causes the area in which the posts appear to shrink horizontally and leaves a wide blank space to the side, since the content of the sidebar is only at the very top. The Customizer doesn't offer an option to turn it off. I've checked several other topics in Roamin' Reader, as well as those in several other forums, but so far haven't encountered the sidebar anywhere else. It's not a huge annoyance, but it is an annoyance. And I have to wonder how it got there (and also only there) and why.
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    Colin

    Any word of or from Colin recently?
  12. I'm not a shill for Amazon, but I do use them for Kindle books, and it's the way I've read dozens of Bellairs mysteries over the past few years. Right now there I see there are 37 of them available as free reads if you have the Kindle Unlimited service.
  13. The more of them you read, the more bits of Littlejohn's history and character you'll find, and also of his wife. There's also a side character who's a close friend from Littlejohn's past on the Isle of Man. He's a elderly cleric, and several times becomes involved in the cases that call Littlejohn back to the island. The cleric's protective housekeeper is a scream. But none of these side characters, or Littlejohn himself, get involved in any distracting, personal soap opera-type plotting, thank heavens; the mystery is always the focus.
  14. Crispin's Gervase Fen mysteries are pricelessly witty, with farcical moments and occasional forth-wall beakage. I've read all the novels and many of the short stories via Kindle editions from Amazon. Very re-readable just to immerse yourself in the world, the characters and Crispin's style.
  15. George Bellairs, Brit author active 1941-1982. His Inspector Littlejohn novels are more character-driven, often wittily so, rather than puzzles - no locked-room mysteries. Really entertaining. Lots available as free reads if you have Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
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