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Cold War, Warm Bed
By Brian Busby
By Brian Busby
Truth proves elusive in Tom Ardies’ 1971 Cold War thriller about a millionaire presidential candidate in possible cahoots with the Russians.
Browsing: The Dusty Bookcase
Brian Busby’s regular column focuses on CanLit’s ignored, neglected, forgotten, and suppressed.
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Suffer the Children
By Brian Busby
By Brian Busby
Christie Redfern’s troubles are so many that they spill over into her backstory in Margaret Murray Robertson’s 1866 novel.
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The Mystery-Anthology Mystery Solved?
By Brian Busby
By Brian Busby
Alberto Manguel’s 1991 Canadian anthology, “Canadian Mystery Stories.”
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A House Full of Orphans
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
Montrealer Enid Louise Cushing’s 1956 mystery debut, “Murder’s No Picnic.”
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Little More Than Coincidence
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
Serendipity abounds in the Rev. H.A. Cody’s “The Girl at Bullet Lake” (1933).
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Weird, But Not Really Strange
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
Alan Marlston’s, 1949 quasi-lesbian novel, “Strange Desire(s).”
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Dorothy Dumbrille’s Communist Manifestation
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
Dorothy Dumbrille’s 1945 novel, “All This Difference”
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Nurse Grant’s Heart Problems
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
A diagnosis of “Backstage Nurse” (1963) the first of W.E.D Ross’ 57 nurse-themed novels, written pseudonymously as Jane Rossiter.
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The Hudson’s Bay Company Is Evil
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
A caninocidal Hudson’s Bay Company is the villain in this Jack London-inspired tale by Canada’s greatest pulp-fiction writer.