Category Archives: commentary 2009

>Weekly Geeks # 13. National Poetry Month

>This post is dedicated to Mike Burden & the Weekly Geeks. It is based on Ruth Rendell, Put on by Cunning (1981) and a former post on Reg Wexford (see ´No More Dying Then´). An inspector called Mike Burden Vexed … Continue reading

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>Meet Chief Inspector Reg Wexford # 3.

>While you are waiting for my Bait-in-the-Box review, here is a post which may appeal to Rendell lovers. It deals with three Rendell novels written in the 1970s. For my first post about the 1960s look here, and you can … Continue reading

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>Meet Chief Inspector Reg Wexford # 2.

>See post 1 here.This second post should have covered the 1970s, but as I am – apparently – unable to skim novels I like and write about them in a few words, I will begin with these three from the … Continue reading

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>Meet Kalle Blomkvist aka Bill Bergson

> Left: photo of the boy who played Kalle Blomkvist.Right: photo of Stieg Larsson. The other day my daughter came across two volumes of Astrid Lindgren´s Kalle Blomkvist series in an antiquarian bookshop (both published by Gyldendal in 1989).Fortunately she … Continue reading

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>While we are waiting …

>Perhaps there are still visitors who want to try to guess this week´s bait so this post is just a commercial for a post which will be brought some day. Here are the six Wexford novels Ruth Rendell wrote during … Continue reading

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