No, not the Mercury Zephyr some of you remember from the late 1970’s into the early 1980’s, but the one before that – the pre-war Lincoln Zephyr. Today, I present this forlorn example from 1939, which was midway though the model’s 7-year run of 1936-42. The photos I have used thus far in this series…| J. P.'s Blog
A doctor & his wife kept a secret from family & friends for nearly two decades. Then the US government discovered what they had been hiding.| Useless Information
-Abhinav Sekhri “He was a humble man who shunned publicity and lived a quiet life. He was born in Cologne, Germany … [and] came to America as an immigrant with a middle school education. … He bought his first building in Los Angeles when he was 21, an endeavour that bloomed into a real estate … Continue reading A Cross-Country Caper and Constitutional Criminal Procedure| The Criminal Law Blog
For my second and final entry to this year’s Women in Translation month, I’ve read The Dry Heart (1947) by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by Frances Frenaye. I’ve read …| Stuck in a Book
Carter Dickson is the not-especially-hidden pseudonym of John Dickson Carr, and he wrote murder mysteries under both names and a handful more. He specialises in the locked-room mystery, which is one of my favourite tropes – though I have only| Stuck in a Book