#1959book

‘The admiration that existed for all things American’: 1959 books

Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. I’ve called it Crimes of the Century. Regular player Bernadette of Reactions to Reading chose us 1959 for January. Here’s the roundup…

Bev at My Reader’s Block rode into town with John Creasey’s Death of a Racehorse, the 25th entry in his police procedural series starring…

Mary nodded to herself, resisting the impulse to close her eyes, and then jerked erect, scanning the side of the road through the blur of rainswept darkness. That’s when she saw the sign, set beside the driveway which led to the small building off on the side. MOTEL – VACANCY. The sign was unlit, but maybe they’d forgotten to switch it on, just as she’d forgotten to put on her headlights when the…

In Bernadette’s honour, the first Australian image for Crimes of the Century: A South Australia Police Traffic Division Courtesy Patrol in 1959.

Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. I’ve called it Crimes of the Century.

Bernadette of Reactions to Reading and Fair Dinkum Crime chose 1959 for January.

If you want to…