tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post852837510866748775..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: Exams Can Be MurderTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-70884235813764478602011-06-23T13:22:36.823+02:002011-06-23T13:22:36.823+02:00Well, I'm not. Canada has only a fraction of t...Well, I'm not. Canada has only a fraction of the US population despite being bigger in terms of the size of its landmass. Thus, US TV programming dominates Canadian programming, US movies are distributed nationwide while only a handful of Canadian films get only limited releases, and so on. Ours is a very American-dominated market. Even the school textbooks will often spell something like "colour" without the u, reflecting the American spelling!Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-63172024929393905222011-06-23T09:33:34.523+02:002011-06-23T09:33:34.523+02:00@John
Hey, you can't say that Penny wrote tw...@John <br /><br />Hey, you can't say that Penny wrote two fairly well done impossible crime stories and then neglect to mention any titles! <br /><br />I'm somewhat surprise at the lack of genuine Canadian GAD writers.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-62952194406507779272011-06-23T01:02:46.550+02:002011-06-23T01:02:46.550+02:00By the way, fun fact: Margaret Millar attended the...By the way, fun fact: Margaret Millar attended the same high school as I did.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-8710274275655959452011-06-23T00:00:14.020+02:002011-06-23T00:00:14.020+02:00Thanks, John! I'm intrigued... To the library ...Thanks, John! I'm intrigued... To the library at once! *swish*Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-64594664186815982712011-06-22T20:57:54.018+02:002011-06-22T20:57:54.018+02:00Louise Penny is the most traditional mystery write...Louise Penny is the most traditional mystery writer of the Canadian writers these days. Highly recommended, gang. I think you both would appreciate the similarities in her work to the GA novels of the past. She even wrote two fairly well done impossible crime novels.<br /><br />Margaret Millar is Canadian. And so are: Hulbert Footner, Frank Packard, and Sara Woods. Those are only the few I can think of who wrote prior to the 1980s. There are quite a few contemporary writers but none who come as close to the traditional mystery novel as Penny.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-91842895362085085022011-06-22T17:03:28.203+02:002011-06-22T17:03:28.203+02:00Well, it'd be awesome if you were able to trac...Well, it'd be awesome if you were able to track down some genuine, Canadian GAD writers to further the international flavor of these blogs. I'm already looking into a Belgium mystery writer from the 1920s, but his books appear to be hard to come by these days. <br /><br />Yeah, I know, these books are, for the most part, not available to an international audience, but getting a picture of what's out there is a first step in the right direction, right?TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-24719448971292090892011-06-22T16:02:45.763+02:002011-06-22T16:02:45.763+02:00There have been a few Canadian mystery authors I&#...There have been a few Canadian mystery authors I've heard of, but I didn't want to take the plunge and discover whether or not it was in the GAD tradition. There was a series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches set entirely in Canada, but all I remember from that is that one of the stories, "The Prime Minister's Papers" is such a blatant rip-off of one of the original tales even Watson figures everything out by telling Holmes it already happened in theit previous adventure.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-50342748614449291022011-06-22T15:12:50.029+02:002011-06-22T15:12:50.029+02:00Translated into English? Ha! Surely you spoke in j...Translated into English? Ha! Surely you spoke in jest? Whatever gave you that silly idea? There isn't any discernable reason to make non-English, traditional mystery writers available to a sizable reading audience, scattered over the entire globe, who are simply howling to sink their teeth in these stories. I mean, none of the teachers molested any of the students nor were there any internal monologues recounting disturbing childhood memories – which means that the book has absolutely no literary value whatsoever. <br /><br />It's not the most brilliant detective story ever conceived, but its entertaining enough and we can't have that now can we? <br /><br />Say, are there any Canadian writers who wrote in the GAD tradition? It might be fun to tackle one or two of them for your blog. <br /><br />By the way, is it just me or does the good professor has a really mischievous look in that photograph? He's hatching some scheme...TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-90693795980368192011-06-22T14:02:18.106+02:002011-06-22T14:02:18.106+02:00A-hunting we will go, eh? Has the author been tran...A-hunting we will go, eh? Has the author been translated into English? He sounds simply marvelous!Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.com