Jerry's House of Everything: DELL FOUR COLOR #96: DICK TRACY (1946)

Jerry's House of Everything: DELL FOUR COLOR #96: DICK TRACY (1946): Each issue of the Dell Four Color comic book featured a specific character or television show, often before getting its own title.  The firs...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THE LOCKED TOMB MYSTERY

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THE LOCKED TOMB MYSTERY: "The Locked Tomb Mystery" by "Elizabeth Peters" (Barbara Mertz, a.k.a. "Barbara Michaels")  (first published i...

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK : FACES OF FEAR

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK : FACES OF FEAR: Faces of Fear  by John Saul (2008) This was John Saul's 30th, and penultimate, novel published under his own name.  (The count can be qu...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: TAPPAN'S BURRO

Jerry's House of Everything: SGORT STORY WEDNESDAY: TAPPAN'S BURRO: "Tappan's Burro" by Zane Grey  (first published in Ladies' Home Journal , June 1923; reprinted in Pearson's Magazine ,...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929): Ogden Nash famously write "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pance."  The pompous fictional detective created by S. S. Van Dine has ...

Jerry's House of Everything: MORTIFIED #10 (UNDATED)

Jerry's House of Everything: MORTIFIED #10 (UNDATED): Mortified  is a continuing series from CNCC Classic Comics.  On May 3, 2024 on this blog, I quoted the Comic Book Plus website:  "CNCC ...

Jerry's House of Everything: LUX RADIO THEATER: THE FALLEN SPARROW (FEBRUARY 14, 1944)

Jerry's House of Everything: LUX RADIO THEATER: THE FALLEN SPARROW (FEBRUARY ...: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, and Walter Slezak headline this radio dramatization of the 1943 film based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: BLACK STUFF

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: BLACK STUFF:  "Black Stuff" by Ken Bruen  (from Dublin Noir , edited  by Ken Bruen, 2006) The world lost one of its greatest hardboiled and noi...

Jerry's House of Everything: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! SEEING WASHINGTON (1957)

Jerry's House of Everything: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! SEEING WASHINGTON (1957): I freely admit that I have a love affair with Washington, D.C.  There is a sense of grandeur that I got sitting on the steps of the Lincoln ...

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE FURY AND THE TERROR

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE FURY AND THE TERROR: The Fury and the Terror   by John Farris, 2001 This is the first sequel to the author's bestselling horror novel The Fury , which was pu...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THE LADY FROM YESTERDAY

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THE LADY FROM YESTERDAY: "The Lady from Yesterday" by Jeremiah Healy  (published in the MWA anthology Blood on their Hands , edited by Lawrence Block, 2003...

Jerry's House of Everything: UNCLE SAM QUARTERLY #5 (WINTER 1942)

Jerry's House of Everything: UNCLE SAM QUARTERLY #5 (WINTER 1942): America's 250th anniversary is coming up and there are many ways -- both appropriate and non-appropriate -- one can celebrate.  You coul...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THREE BY MICHAEL FESSIER

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THREE BY MICHAEL FESSIER:  "Sex Murder in Cameron" by Michael Fessier (from Manhunt , February 1953) "Nice Bunch of Guys" by Michael Fessier (from...

Jerry's House of Everything: MYSTERY IN THE AIR: THE BLACK CAT (SEPTEMBER 18, 1947)

Jerry's House of Everything: MYSTERY IN THE AIR: THE BLACK CAT (SEPTEMBER 18...: Mystery in the Air  was a summer replacement program for the Abbott and Costello Show   beginning in 1945.  Rather than yucks, this show wen...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: SLAY RIDE TO ETERNITY

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: SLAY RIDE TO ETERNITY:  "Slay Ride to Eternity" by Tedd Thomey  (first published in the Australian edition of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine , May 1957; th...

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: GLORY IN DEATH

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: GLORY IN DEATH: Glory in Death  by "J. D. Robb" (Nora Roberts), 1995. Okay, so here's my plan.  I am going to live forever, or at least for a ...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: OLD FAGS

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: OLD FAGS:  "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier  (first published in The Grim 13 , edited by Frederick Stuart Green, 1917; reprinted in Hutchinson...

Jerry's House of Everything: THE LENA BAKER CASE

Jerry's House of Everything: THE LENA BAKER CASE: Today marks the 126th anniversary of the birth of Lena Baker, the only woman to be executed by electrocution in the state of Georgia. Lena w...

Jerry's House of Everything: DELL FOUR COLOR (1939 SERIES) #6: DICK TRACY

Jerry's House of Everything: DELL FOUR COLOR (1939 SERIES) #6: DICK TRACY: This issue collects 64 Sunday strips featuring Chester Gould's famous detective. It starts when Tracy arrests a gang of female perfume t...

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE LOST CITY

Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: THE LOST CITY:   The Lost City  by "John Blaine" (Harold L. Goodwin & Peter J. Harkins)  (1947) Book Two in a series of twenty-four, with the...