
By Brian Busby
Truth proves elusive in Tom Ardies’ 1971 Cold War thriller about a millionaire presidential candidate in possible cahoots with the Russians.
Brian Busby’s regular column focuses on CanLit’s ignored, neglected, forgotten, and suppressed.
Truth proves elusive in Tom Ardies’ 1971 Cold War thriller about a millionaire presidential candidate in possible cahoots with the Russians.
Christie Redfern’s troubles are so many that they spill over into her backstory in Margaret Murray Robertson’s 1866 novel.
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.