Comments for Mick and Casey Mystery Blog http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog Companion articles to the Mystery Stories Site Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:46:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 Comment on Ellery Queen TV Show 1975 by Benzadmiral http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/2009/11/ellery-queen-tv-show-1975/comment-page-1/#comment-723 Benzadmiral Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:46:13 +0000 http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/?p=21#comment-723 Yes, I remember the Jim Hutton EQ series fondly. They even adapted one of Dannay's favorite stories, "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party," and included the Challenge to the Reader of the early novels by having Hutton's Ellery turn to the audience, us, and say, "You've got all the clues. . . ." And you are right about David Wayne. I'd always pictured the Inspector as looking like John Mills of "King Rat" fame -- but David Wayne completely revamped my mental picture of Richard Queen. Yes, I remember the Jim Hutton EQ series fondly. They even adapted one of Dannay’s favorite stories, “The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party,” and included the Challenge to the Reader of the early novels by having Hutton’s Ellery turn to the audience, us, and say, “You’ve got all the clues. . . .”

And you are right about David Wayne. I’d always pictured the Inspector as looking like John Mills of “King Rat” fame — but David Wayne completely revamped my mental picture of Richard Queen.

]]> Comment on Classic Mysteries: Ellery Queen’s The Chinese Orange Mystery by Benzadmiral http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/2009/09/classic-mysteries-ellery-queens-the-chinese-orange-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-722 Benzadmiral Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:41:07 +0000 http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/?p=16#comment-722 'Lamp of God" you can find in "The New Adventures of Ellery Queen" collection. That one also has one of the best of all the short stories, "Mind over Matter," featuring a murder at a boxing event. "Chinese Orange," I feel, is a little thin in spots: Ellery spends a lot of time trying to turn up "backwards" or "Chinese" links among the suspects. It also dates because of a detail about men's clothing that's essential to the solution. But it is imaginative, the classic Queen setup of "What the heck was the murderer up to?" "Siamese Twin" would make a fine film -- imagine Alexis Denisof, Wesley from TV's "Angel," as Ellery, and John Mahoney, Frasier's TV dad, as the Inspector. Though it would have to be a period piece, as today rescue helicopters could lift the trapped people off the mountaintop. ‘Lamp of God” you can find in “The New Adventures of Ellery Queen” collection. That one also has one of the best of all the short stories, “Mind over Matter,” featuring a murder at a boxing event.

“Chinese Orange,” I feel, is a little thin in spots: Ellery spends a lot of time trying to turn up “backwards” or “Chinese” links among the suspects. It also dates because of a detail about men’s clothing that’s essential to the solution. But it is imaginative, the classic Queen setup of “What the heck was the murderer up to?”

“Siamese Twin” would make a fine film — imagine Alexis Denisof, Wesley from TV’s “Angel,” as Ellery, and John Mahoney, Frasier’s TV dad, as the Inspector. Though it would have to be a period piece, as today rescue helicopters could lift the trapped people off the mountaintop.

]]> Comment on Rest In Peace, Stuart M. Kaminsky by Peter Kaminsky http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/2009/10/rest-in-peace-stuart-m-kaminsky/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Peter Kaminsky Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:39:12 +0000 http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/?p=19#comment-39 Thank you for your kind words about my father's work. - Peter Kaminsky Peetk@aol.com Thank you for your kind words about my father’s work.

- Peter Kaminsky
Peetk@aol.com

]]> Comment on Classic Mysteries: Ellery Queen’s The Chinese Orange Mystery by admin http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/2009/09/classic-mysteries-ellery-queens-the-chinese-orange-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-9 admin Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:31:41 +0000 http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/?p=16#comment-9 I did just re-read the Siamese Twin mystery too. There are things I love about that one, and with the many twists and turns of the clue from the dying man, it certainly is a great example of the EQ standard. I didn't feel it stood the test of time quite so well partly because it was so naive about forest fires. (Still, the white knuckle driving through the smoking woods was a great opener!) I haven't read "Lamp of God", unless it was in a collection of shorts and I just don't remember the title. I will have to look it up next. Thanks for commenting! I did just re-read the Siamese Twin mystery too. There are things I love about that one, and with the many twists and turns of the clue from the dying man, it certainly is a great example of the EQ standard. I didn’t feel it stood the test of time quite so well partly because it was so naive about forest fires. (Still, the white knuckle driving through the smoking woods was a great opener!)

I haven’t read “Lamp of God”, unless it was in a collection of shorts and I just don’t remember the title. I will have to look it up next.

Thanks for commenting!

]]> Comment on Classic Mysteries: Ellery Queen’s The Chinese Orange Mystery by Les Blatt http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/2009/09/classic-mysteries-ellery-queens-the-chinese-orange-mystery/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Les Blatt Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:39:19 +0000 http://mickandcaseymysteries.com/blog/?p=16#comment-8 I haven't reread "The Chinese Orange Mystery" in a while, but I do enjoy the early Ellery Queen stories more than I do the later ones, where he went in for more brooding, psychology-based mysteries such as the Wrightsville books. I think my favorite among the early books is "The Siamese Twin Mystery," but my all-time favorite Queen is one of the novellas - "The Lamp of God," where the impossible (and fairly-clued) crime involves the complete disappearance of an entire house. Les Blatt www.classicmysteries.net I haven’t reread “The Chinese Orange Mystery” in a while, but I do enjoy the early Ellery Queen stories more than I do the later ones, where he went in for more brooding, psychology-based mysteries such as the Wrightsville books. I think my favorite among the early books is “The Siamese Twin Mystery,” but my all-time favorite Queen is one of the novellas – “The Lamp of God,” where the impossible (and fairly-clued) crime involves the complete disappearance of an entire house.

Les Blatt
http://www.classicmysteries.net

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