The Dusty Bookcase

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

The Dusty Bookcase

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

The Dusty Bookcase

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

The Dusty Bookcase

A diagnosis of “Backstage Nurse” (1963) the first of W.E.D Ross’ 57 nurse-themed novels, written pseudonymously as Jane Rossiter.

The Dusty Bookcase

A caninocidal Hudson’s Bay Company is the villain in this Jack London-inspired tale by Canada’s greatest pulp-fiction writer.

#101: Winter 2018
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