‘Boobs, booze, bigotry and bullets’: 1947 book

Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. Regular contributor Santosh picked 1947, which proved to be something of a challenge for lots of us – it seems like ’47 was a lean year for books.

Still, there’s always the movies.

Brad offered up three films noir from 1947, Out of the Past, Dark Passage, and The Unsuspected.

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Just going to try this out in support of #1947book… Here’s a 1947 police picture, who can come up with the best caption?

Like all the best competitions, this one has no prize apart from an ego boost :-)

Gerald Kersh: Prelude to a Certain Midnight

She wanted to do something to somebody. She felt a need for a hushed Old Bailey, a Black Cap, a Sentence, a rope snapping taut and a gratified crowd outside grey walls half-cheering while a man in uniform pasted up a bit of paper. She was out for blood. (more…)

“Victorian Policewomen designed their own uniforms in 1947 under strict instructions from Chief Commissioner Alexander Duncan to omit epaulettes […] because he believed women would never reach the rank of officer, according to the Victoria Police Museum.” From the Herald Sun

Every month on Past OffencesI gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. Regular…