
By Brian Busby
Alberto Manguel’s 1991 Canadian anthology, “Canadian Mystery Stories.”
Brian Busby’s regular column focuses on CanLit’s ignored, neglected, forgotten, and suppressed.
Alberto Manguel’s 1991 Canadian anthology, “Canadian Mystery Stories.”
Montrealer Enid Louise Cushing’s 1956 mystery debut, “Murder’s No Picnic.”
Serendipity abounds in the Rev. H.A. Cody’s “The Girl at Bullet Lake” (1933).
Alan Marlston’s, 1949 quasi-lesbian novel, “Strange Desire(s).”
Dorothy Dumbrille’s 1945 novel, “All This Difference”
A diagnosis of “Backstage Nurse” (1963) the first of W.E.D Ross’ 57 nurse-themed novels, written pseudonymously as Jane Rossiter.
A caninocidal Hudson’s Bay Company is the villain in this Jack London-inspired tale by Canada’s greatest pulp-fiction writer.
The most reprinted work by Canada’s first bestselling author depicts a world of widows and widowers.
Benge Atlee’s thriller “Black Feather” (1939) was intended as escapist fiction—then history got in the way.
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