Edgar Wallace's The India-Rubber Men
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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING
Dan Weaver did a double take. The somebody sitting on the piano should have been lying in a steaming conservatory with her skull crushed. But here she was singing in a hushed, tuneless voice. Nobody seemed to care what sort of a singer she'd make.Here the author dodges cliché by making Alicia's doppelgänger, torch singer Phyllis, a younger sister. Alicia may have been as bad, but she was no evil twin.
"I've mentioned that to you before. You're still on the force, you know, even if you're not in uniform, and the rules are that..."The two boudoir scenes aren't all that much – a fully clothed woman walks out of a bedroom, a man comforts a grieving widow – and neither is pertinent to the case. Dan is overselling things. He really has no idea what he's doing. I'm not sure Brown did, either. In the course of his investigation, Dan settles on Alicia's former husband Jeff Wallace as the murderer, for no other reason than they divorced. You know, acrimony and all that. Blackmail, too, though this makes no sense.
"But you find out more this way. I make a few exceptions to a few rules. I like a variation of a theme. And see what happens? I find two boudoir scenes in one afternoon." Dan waved his hand, "What is this thing called procedure."
Cummings frowned. He had mentioned things like this to Weaver before, but the younger man paid no attention.
She scampered ahead of him into the bedroom, and then proceeded to dress before his interested eyes in such a flurry of panties, garter belts, bras and stockings that she was fully clothed in a brief moment.Brief moment.
Lobby Girl Gerald Foster Toronto: News Stand Library |
Never See the Sun Hall Bennett 1950 |
Carnival of Love Anthony Scott 1950 |
Strange Desires Alan Malston 1950 |
Too Many Women Gerry Martin 1950 |
Hospital Nurse Lucy Agnes Hancock |
These cartoons show artist Peter Whalley's reaction to a new dictionary of etiquette written by Claire Wallace and Joy Brown and titled Mind Your Manners. Whalley's interpretations are fortunately not everyone's. The authors say they could only be Whalley's.Mind Your Manners is the outgrowth of a column on etiquette which writer-commentator Wallace syndicated to 25 newspapers across Canada between 1945 and 1949. It was bought and published by Harlequin Books, of which Joy Brown is an editor. The first printing of 30,000 has been followed by a second and seems to justify the authors' belief that there was a need for a new simplified guide to Canadian manners.
DUKE'S ELDEST SON'S YOUNGER SONWriting to:Is, by courtesy, addressed as if the father were a peer; i.e. "Honourable (John) Doe"Personally addressed as: Mr. John DoeReferred to as: Mr. John Doe.
DUKE'S ELDEST SON'S ELDEST SONWriting to:Assumes, by courtesy, the third title of his grandfather, and is addressed as a peer.Personally addressed as: Lord Doe.Referred to as: Lord Doe.
In her continuous search for stories on Canadiana, Author [sic] Wallace came against a problem. There were no up-to-the-minute reference books on Canadian manners. Etiquette seemed out-dated and stuffy. That's how the idea for this new book was born.