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YouTube Theater: Philip Marlowe in THE BRASHER DOUBLOON (The High Window) (1947)
This seldom-seen film is back on YouTube, no doubt for a limited time only. Catch it before it's gone.
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LONE RANGER Comics: "The Sergeant's Story" (1958)
This tale appeared in The Lone Ranger no. 117, March 1958. Story by Paul S. Newman, Art by Tom Gill.
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Forgotten Books: THE CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS by Erle Stanley Gardner (1933)
Perry Mason books are the potato chips of mystery fiction. It’s damn near impossible to read just one.The first time read TCOT Velvet Claws—the first in the series—thirty-odd years ago, I got hooked...
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STAR TREK CONTINUES episode 1: "Pilgrim of Eternity" (2013)
Among the cast in this one are James Doohan's son Chris as Scotty, and guest star Michael Forrest, reprising his role as Apollo from the 1967 episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
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Look 'n See Cards: AUTHORS (1952)
Thanks to the razor-sharp memory of Mike Britt.Not sure how the Look 'n See gimmick was supposed to work. I tried looking at them through the red lens of 3-D glasses, and got nowhere. By messing around...
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A MR. MAC duo from Gary Lovisi: "The Affair of Lady Wescott's Lost Ruby"&"The...
I’ve read a lot of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and Gary Lovisi has apparently written quite a few, but these are the first I’ve met. In the two tales in this new Stark House Black Gat book (both...
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Forgotten Books: THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE aka A MAN CALLED SPADE aka THEY...
I still remember my surprise, when I came across this book back in the '70s, that Hammett had written three Sam Spade short stories. And I still remember the disappointment that they were not...
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The FIRST Maltese Falcon movie (1931)
"Woman of the World" (along with "Dangerous Female") was one of the working titles of this film, and they obviously churned out a few stills with that title before deciding on the original. The falcon...
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SATAN MET A LADY, the whacked-out Maltese Falcon (1936)
While gearing up for our presentation of The Maltese Falcon comic, here's a post I've run before about the second film version of the novel (the Bogie classic was the third), complete with the film, so...
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JIMI AFTER DARK (Yep, a Jimi Hendrix novel) by Stephen Mertz
Sex, drugs, rock and roll, ass-kicking, kidnapping and murder. They’re all here raring to rock your world in Jimi After Dark, the latest mystery/thriller from Stephen Mertz.It’s 1970, and Jimi Hendrix...
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37 different looks at THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Lauren Bacall's bronze figurine of Bogart as Spade sold at auction two years ago for $16,250. To me? I wish.The Conrad falcon, so-called because Jack Warner gave it to actor William Conrad. 47 pounds,...
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The SEQUEL to the MALTESE FALCON: "The Kandy Tooth" starring Howard Duff (1948)
This broadcast of Suspense from January 1948, featuring the return of Caspar Gutman and Joel Cairo, is especially cool because it's introduced by my favorite screen Marlowe, Robert Montgomery. The...
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