You are pulling down the pillars of the world, George Fox

[venta]

While waiting for my compiler to do its thing, I've just read a rather interesting article on the first radio hoax. Not perpetrated by Orson Welles, but by a Catholic clergyman called Knox.

Watch out for interesting snippets in the sidebars, too, includning Knox's commandments of detective fiction.

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[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, I read one of Knox's short stories earlier this week.

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

What was it like? Has it dated well? (I am here speaking in my official capacity as a Dorothy Sayers fan.)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I particularly like "we must have had over 200 local calls".

Wow, panic really swept the nation, didn't it?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I think that was just the hotel.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Jolly good! That site is pretty good for examples of the lost art of the essay. I recommend the one on gallows ballads if you didn't poke around and find it...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

There followed a batch of other calls in much the same vein, and then one from a reporter at the Daily Mail. “My interrogator seemed to have a certain lack of sympathy with the BBC and a natural desire to make the most of a good story,” MacGregor writes. “It was a trying experience.”

Very fine.

I'm now going to have to see if I can find the chap's detective books.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. A quick google suggests they were published in paperback as peppermint Penguins, which is pretty much a 100% recommendation of a whodunnt in my world. Must search them out.