by J. Kingston Pierce on The Rap Sheet (blog) Re-Published here with permission. Banned Books Week 2025 began yesterday and continues through this coming Saturday, October 11. As the organizers explain, “Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. Held in the last week of September or first week of October, the annual event … Continue reading
by Michael O’Connor Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not assassinated on the South Portico of the White House in 1941. That is a historical fact and this is not a mystery. But, it can be read as a mystery if you go along with William Martin and willingly suspend your disbelief. What if? What if, indeed? That is Martin’s premise to a masterful tale of suspense in December ’41! He weaves … Continue reading
LET'S PLAY CLUE: Was it MBC member Dick Goutal, in the garden, using the poisonous plant, Black Henbane?
