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Robert Louis Stevenson

Mysteries Set in the Caribbean

By John Keyse-Walker

July 20, 2016

The golden sands, verdant hills, and crystalline waters of the Caribbean Sea have called to authors since the age of piracy ended. Indeed, one of the first works set there, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, was about that most Caribbean of occupations. Following Stevenson’s path, the greats (Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream), the near-greats…

The mad Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre)

Mad Doctor Hall of Fame: Physicians’ Edition

By Lokke Heiss

June 21, 2013

Sir Lionel Barton: “You're Fu Manchu, aren't you?” Fu Manchu: I am a doctor of philosophy from Edinburgh, I am a doctor of law from Christ College, I am a doctor of medicine from Harvard. My friends, out of courtesy, call me doctor. Sir Lionel Barton: “Oh, I beg your pardon. Well, three times doctor,…

John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe

Recycling Writers into Action Heroes

By Laura K. Curtis

April 4, 2012

I’ll probably wait for The Raven on DVD or on Demand. You know that new movie starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, wherein the famous author goes hunting a murderer who’s imitating the plots from his stories? It’s not that I don’t like Cusack, because I do. Or that I don’t like Poe, because…

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