tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post3600985547381233338..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: Hardly a Man is Now Alive (1950) by Herbert BreanTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-73998519452094587142024-01-13T13:21:37.506+01:002024-01-13T13:21:37.506+01:00For years, I've been saying Hardly a Man is No...For years, I've been saying <i>Hardly a Man is Now Alive</i> deserves the reputation of <i>Wilders Walks Away</i>. And, for once, everyone agreed! <br /><br />So glad you enjoyed it and welcome to the club! Yes, it needs to reprinted. Maybe Otto Penzler's American Mystery Classics? What's more American than a minor mystery classic that has a plot rooted in the Revolutionary War? TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-3254732540194271112024-01-13T01:46:41.313+01:002024-01-13T01:46:41.313+01:00On the strength of the reviews that you, Ben and J...On the strength of the reviews that you, Ben and Jim have given, I pulled “Hardly a Man is now Alive” out of the big pile and I’m glad I did.<br /><br />Brean effortlessly propels the plot with Revolutionary War history, literary treasure, a ghost, a séance, an obsessed medium, a disappearing elderly man, etc. It reminded me of Carr’s “Till Death Due Us Part” in that I could not turn the pages fast enough with many chapters leaving me hanging. It was a tough book to put down so I finished it quickly. A minor classic that definitely should be re-printed.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945797301621244070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-16662684375307589362019-07-01T06:08:44.661+02:002019-07-01T06:08:44.661+02:00Everyone seems to be in agreement about Wilders, w...Everyone seems to be in agreement about Wilders, when it comes to us bloggers.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-34114224123008391852019-06-19T10:47:40.594+02:002019-06-19T10:47:40.594+02:00I hope that, by the time you get around to reading...I hope that, by the time you get around to reading it, enough time has passed for us to agree again, because we burned through our monthly quota on <i>The Opening Night Murders</i>. We were in fierce agreement on that one. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-35017657582677188812019-06-18T20:01:40.722+02:002019-06-18T20:01:40.722+02:00Dude, I am, like, a couple of weeks away from revi...Dude, I am, like, a couple of weeks away from reviewing this...serendipity! Or coincidence! Either way, I've given the above a quick skim and shall be back to compare notes when I've read it myself...JJ @ The Invisible Eventhttps://theinvisibleevent.comnoreply@blogger.com