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‘The biggest group of red herrings’: #1937book roundup

Every month at Past Offences an intrepid band of bloggers proffers their opinions on a particular year on crime fiction. I call it Crimes of the Century.

The stakes were high this time. Regular player JJ recently made a case that 1937 was the Golden Age of the Golden Age. Would our findings back him up, or send him back to the drawing board for more graphs?

Brad blew in first with a flurry of…

Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor

Now listen: you must cut out that Estella girl, every scene with her, I can’t have her, the picture’s too long. You must cut it down to seven thousand feet. I’ll send Robertson to help, and between the two of you you can do some juggling with your scissors and celluloid. You like it, don’t you? What you say?’ ‘It smells,’ I said. (more…)