Le Cafe Singe Bleu
Serving generous portions of history and mystery
from our monthly menu

Welcome to Le Cafe Singe Bleu where we serve up generous dollops of history and mystery to entertain and inform you. We are a monthly ezine. BOOKMARK THIS PAGE NOW! Each month we will add a link to our newest issue to this page.

Issue Contents
Jan 1, 2003, Issue One

Editorial: Remember Elizabeth Short;
Book Reviews: Masquerade, The Black Angel, The Cape Cod Mystery, The Labors of Hercules, Superman Dailies 1939-1940, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Secret Of Terror Castle, Just The Facts, Ma'am, Suspense: Twenty Years of Thrills and Chills;
Movies: Bold Strokes, an appreciation of Charlie Chan in Paris;
Television: The Big Webb: Jack Webb and Dragnet;
Comics: Superman Comes To Your City;
Radio: Transcribed scripts for the Burns and Allen Show, Pete Kelly's Blues, Superman;
Dated Death: Justice in January.
Feb 1, 2003, Issue Two

Editorial: We've Added New Features for Issue Two
Features Charlie Chan's Hawaii: Hawaii during the era of Charlie Chan 1925-1933. PART ONE A Proverb for Every Occasion: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Chan
Dragnet: Charlie Chan: John Dickson Carr and Raymond Chandler and Maria Belloc Lowndes: Ernest Hemingway
Book Reviews Death Comes As The End, by Agatha Christie; The Arabian Pearl, by Marian A. Jackson; Charlie Chan Returns, by Dennis Lynds; Charlie Chan in The Temple of the Golden Horde, by Michael Collins (Dennis Lynds); Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters; Charlie Chan in The Pawns of Death, by Bill Pronzini; The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport, by Nancy Axelrad; Reel Murder, by Marion Babson; We review all 6 of the Charlie Chan books, by Earl Derr Biggers; Death From A Top Hat, by Clayton Rawson; Death Lights A Candle, by Phoebe Atwood Taylor; Crime Movie Posters, by Bruce Hershenson,
Short Stories - Period''The Wings of Isis,'' Marilyn Todd, EQMM, March 2003 and '' The Mountain of Jade,'' Edward D. Hoch, EQMM, March 2003;
Movies: Was There A Murder or Wasn't There?: an appreciation of Murder By Death, 1976,
Radio Transcribed Scripts: Boston Blackie: The TV Poisoning Starring Harold Kollmar as Boston Blackie Philip Morris Playhouse: Murder Needs An Artist, guest star Vincent Price. Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Case of the Careless Victim: Starring Harold Huber as Hercule Poirot.
Television The Big Debut: The 'reconceptualization' of Dragnet
Dated Death:
Framed in February: Chronology of Mysterious Events during the month of February
Le Singe Bleu Gift Shop: Blue Hawaii!
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