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Brian Busby’s regular column focuses on CanLit’s ignored, neglected, forgotten, and suppressed.

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August 28, 2020 0 Cold War, Warm Bed
By Brian Busby

Truth proves elusive in Tom Ardies’ 1971 Cold War thriller about a millionaire presidential candidate in possible cahoots with the Russians.

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February 27, 2020 0 Suffer the Children
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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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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Alan Marlston’s, 1949 quasi-lesbian novel, “Strange Desire(s).”

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

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

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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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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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