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April 7, 2019 0 The Mystery-Anthology Mystery Solved?
By Brian Busby

Alberto Manguel’s 1991 Canadian anthology, “Canadian Mystery Stories.”

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October 2, 2018 0 A House Full of Orphans
by Brian Busby

Montrealer Enid Louise Cushing’s 1956 mystery debut, “Murder’s No Picnic.”

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September 12, 2018 0 Little More Than Coincidence
by Brian Busby

Serendipity abounds in the Rev. H.A. Cody’s “The Girl at Bullet Lake” (1933).

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July 4, 2018 0 Weird, But Not Really Strange
by Brian Busby

Alan Marlston’s, 1949 quasi-lesbian novel, “Strange Desire(s).”

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June 12, 2018 0 A Femme Fatale in the Frozen North
by Brian Busby

Keith Edgar’s 1949 mystery “Arctic Rendez-vous”

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April 11, 2018 0 Dorothy Dumbrille’s Communist Manifestation
by Brian Busby

Dorothy Dumbrille’s 1945 novel, “All This Difference”

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March 8, 2018 0 Nurse Grant’s Heart Problems
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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February 12, 2018 0 The Hudson’s Bay Company Is Evil
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.

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January 23, 2018 0 Mrs. Fleming’s Worst Marriage?
by Brian Busby

The most reprinted work by Canada’s first bestselling author depicts a world of widows and widowers.

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October 16, 2017 0 A Great War Veteran’s Pre-War Thriller
by Brian Busby

Benge Atlee’s thriller “Black Feather” (1939) was intended as escapist fiction—then history got in the way.

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