The Dusty Bookcase

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

The Dusty Bookcase

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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