Dan Stashower highlighted Eliot Ness & the Untouchables game as "the worst board game ever created" 🙂

I am eternally devoted to Betteredge & Miss Clack.

Harriet Prescott Spofford image below. For those who would like to read her #mystery stories:
-- "In a Cellar": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/510
-- "Mr. Furbush": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/407
-- "In the Maguerriwock": wdl.mcdaniel.edu/node/521

I reviewed for EQMM 2 bks (orig publ in 1930s magazines) by Madelon St. Denis w/an early female PI: _The Hollow Tree Mystery_ & _The Jekyll-Hyde Murder Case_ www.coachwhipbooks.com/mystery-auth...

Harriet Prescott Spofford is an early #mystery writer: "In a Cellar" (1859), "Mr. Furbush" (1865), "In the Maguerriwock" (1868).

Now on $ale at @mcfarland.bsky.social ! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/zasu...

Mary Roberts Rinehart earned $6M+ from _The Bat_ (based on her novel _The Circular Staircase_). Some film/TV versions: a 1926 silent film shown in 2024 w/live musical accompaniment; a 1959 film w/Vincent Price & Agnes Moorehead; & a 1960 TV episode w/Helen Hayes, Margaret Hamilton & Jason Robards

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She was a favorite author of the Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley. She wrote beautifully (we lost her too soon to an aortic aneurysm).

Drew Gilpin Faust
(also concur about John Keegan)

. @deanstpress.bsky.social has reprinted Wentworth's non-Miss Silver bks. www.deanstreetpress.co.uk/pages/author...

Third row!🙂

There's a remastered version avbl of the score by Bernard Herrmann. www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-soundt...

My favorite was a bk owned by a friend of mine: a romance novel w/the hero holding the hand of the heroine & the heroine's left arm resting next to her....and then she had another hand (no, it wasn't a sci-fi novel). I think one hand was meant to be painted out...

You have to bear in mind that Heyer's mysteries were written w/ her husband (he devised the plots; she did the writing). So they are not the product of a single individual like her Regencies are.

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Marsh's fiance died in #WW1. mcfarlandbooks.com/series/mcfar...

Hope you have read Emma Lathen.