Serving generous portions of history and mystery
from our monthly menu
Volume 1, Issue 2, February 2003
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Le Cafe Singe Bleu Serving generous portions of history and mystery from our monthly menu Volume 1, Issue 2, February 2003
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Framed in February*
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February 1, 1878 H. C. Bailey is born in London. He is the creator of Reggie Fortune, a physician who acts as a special advisor to Scotland Yard. |
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February 2, 1877 Frank Packard, the creator of safecracker Jimmie Dale, aka The Grey Seal, is born in Montreal.
February 2, 1904
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February 3 Nothing mysterious is known to have happened on this date. |
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February 4, 1906 Maurice Proctor is born in Nelson, Lancashire. His series character, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Martineau, appears in one of the first modern police procedurals, Hell Is A City, published in December 1954. |
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February 5, 1915 Margaret Millar is born in Kitchener, Ontario. |
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February 6, 1939 Raymond Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep, featuring Philip Marlowe, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
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February 7, 1812 Charles Dickens is born in London. He creates Inspector Bucket ''of the Detective'' in Bleak House (1853), and dies before completing his only true detective novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
February 7, 1823
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February 8, 1924 The first execution by gas is carried out in the United States. Gee Jon is sent to the Nevada gas chamber for the murder of his wife. |
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Februry 9, 1881 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment, (1866), dies in St. Petersburg. |
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February 10, 1896 Frederic Van Rensselaer Day is born in Watkins Glen, NY. He wrote 437 stories featuring detective Nick Carter.
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February 11, 1891 Elliot Paul is born in Malden, Massachusetts. His detective character, Paris-based jazz aficianado Homer Evans, is a parody of Philo Vance (the character created by S. S. Van Dine aka Willard Huntington Wright). Evans' first appearance in The Mysterious Mickey Finn in 1939 ironically coincides with S.S. Van Dine's death. |
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February 12, 1931 Amsterdam police procedural author Janwillem van de Wetering is born in Rotterdam. His series featuring Grijpstra and de Gier is marked by ''an intense view of reality tempered by a disciplined mysticism.''.
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February 13, 1903 Georges Simenon, creator of Maigret, is born in Liege, Belgium.
February 13, 1914
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February 14, 1929 The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre occurs in Chicago at 2212 N. Clark Street at the S. M. C. Cartage Company, where five of Al Capone's men, three dressed as police officers, enter the premises and proceed to gun down seven men of Bugsy Moran's gang. |
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February 15, 1883 Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer and creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, is born today in Warwickshire, England.
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February 16, 1939 Actor Chester Morris, most famous as the character Boston Blackie in fourteen B films, is born today in New York City. He also starred in the first movie about Mary Roberts Rinehart's famous character, The Bat.
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February 17, 1888 Ronald Knox is born in Knibworth, Leicestershire. He is the author of many classic mysteries including The Footsteps at the Lock, 1928. His 1930 essay: ''Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes'' is responsible for an increase in Sherlockian scholarship.
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February 18, 1929 Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress Files and creator of Harry Palmer (a character not given a name until he appeared in a movie under the guise of Michael Caine).
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February 19, 1926 Ross Thomas is born in Oklahoma City. He has written novels as himself and as Oliver Bleeck.
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February 20 Nothing of mysterious interest is known to have happened on this date.
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February 21, 1946 Nothing of mysterious interest is known to have happened on this date.
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February 22, 1896 Peter Cheyney, who specialized in a hard-boiled American style in books aimed primarily at European readers, is born in london. His G-Man Lenny Caution first appears in This Man Is Dangerous (1936).
February 22, 1930 In our February issue we review his latest short story published in EQMM, The Mountain of Jade.
February 22, 1945 Read the transcribed script of The Case of the Careless Client. |
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February 23, 1955 Dashiell Hammett, an American Communist Party member, testifies before the Supreme Court. ''Communism to me is not a dirty word.''
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February 24, 1909 Grant Allen, the man who created Colonel Clay, the 'first rogue hero of crime fiction', is born in Kingston, Ontario. His best known mystery is An African Millionaire.
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February 25, 1921 John Wainwright, a writer of police procedurals, is born in Leeds, Yorkshire. His major work is The Last Buccaneer (1971).
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February 26, 1884 Hugh Wiley is born in Zanesville, Ohio. He is the creator of Mr. Wong, a mandarin-like sleuth who solves crimes from his curio-filled Chinatown study. The stories, originally published in Collier's magazine, are first brought to the screen in 1938 with Boris Karloff in the title role of Mr. Wong, Detective.
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February 27 John Dickson Carr, master of the locked room mystery, dies in Greenville South Carolina.
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February 28, 1961 James Payn, a British mystery writer whose works are 'long forgotten', is born today in Cheltenham. Payn was the editor of Cornhill Magazine and rejected A Study in Scarlet.
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