Chicago 1947. My plan was to stop working on the novel in November and write a short story. Of course, I did nothing but work on my novel. But this is a good problem to have. I've settled on the title Monkey See, Monkey Murder. It has a locked-room murder, a locked-room lecture, and a… Continue reading November Update
Last week's Four Corners tale There are Smiles that Make you Happy and this week's have a lot in common. Both see the world through young eyes. Both have a love triangle. Hell, both of them have a moment when the narrator childishly refuses to attend a wedding because he doesn't like one member of… Continue reading “Stay as Sweet as you Are” from Four Corners Vol II
So far, my trip to the fictional (and uncanny) town of Four Corners has been fun. The first tale, Ghoul's Paradise, was in line with my type of mystery. It featured an impossible crime replete with elements of ghastly horror. It also had a chain of murder (not carried out with any rigor but hey,… Continue reading “There are Smiles that Make you Happy” from Four Corners Vol II
Last week I reviewed the first story from Volume 2 of Theodore Roscoe's tales of mysterious happenings in the town of Four Corners in upstate New York. Ghoul's Paradise was a treat, a mad account of impossible murders and resurrection within a demented family. This week's story...not so much. Don't get me wrong; it is… Continue reading “The Man Who Hated Lincoln” from Four Corners Vol II
She had written, "Ode to Life". Underneath the title: "Oh Life, you have been like a knife"--It was pretty bad, but it hardly deserved assassination. My only previous encounter with Theodore Roscoe was the masterpiece Murder on the Way, a passionate bolt of pulp lightning that would never survive the first pass with a modern… Continue reading “Ghoul’s Paradise” from Four Corners Vol II
James Scott Byrnside 