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- CWA (British Crime Writers) Dagger Nominees
- School Library Posters
- Rev. Andrew Greeley: R.I.P.
- Arthur Ellis Awards
- A Different Library
- Jack Vance: R.I.P.
- Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir, returns to TCM
- Vintage Library Poster: Travel
- Memorial Day 2013: Joseph Rudolph, M.D.
- Memorial Day Mysteries/Memorial Day Crime Fiction
- Barbecue Mysteries
- Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
- Looking for Snow Leopards: Lisa Brackmann
- PBS Masterpiece Mystery! Summer Line-Up
- Cartoon of the Day: Writer's Block
- Crime Museums: International Museum Day
- Tsundoku: Unread book piles
- A TASTE OF AFRICA: MICHAEL STANLEY
- Borderlands Books, San Francisco
- Reed Farrel Coleman: A Thank You
- Literary Salon 5/20: JENNY MILCHMAN & RICHARD NORT...
- 2013 SPINETINGLER AWARDS
- Cartoon of the Day: Cops
- MOTHER'S DAY CRIME FICTION/MOTHER'S DAY MYSTERIES
- Please Check Your Machetes at the Door: Tamar Myers
- INNOVATIONS IN READING PRIZE WINNERS 2013
- Agatha Christie's Egypt: High Tea and Agatha's Egy...
- Anthony Award Nominees
- THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME LONGLIST
- IFLA (LIBRARY) MARKETING AWARDS
- One More Vintage Bookmobile Photo
- Agatha Award Winners 2013
- Cinco de Mayo & Mexican Crime Fiction
- Cartoon of the Day: Family of Writers
- CRIMEFEST AWARDS NOMINEES
- EDGAR AWARDS 2013
- Hank Phillippi Ryan: Mary Higgins Clark Award
- KENTUCKY DERBY MYSTERIES: DERBY CRIME FICTION
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Really strange! Why is the girl tied up? Don't think this would be allowed today, lol!
And looks like he's figuring out the kind of knot rather than releasing her, Kay!
Edie at BellaOnline.com called my attention to the school poster you refer to. Here's my take:
The poster is totally inappropriate for a school or public library. It reflects the unfortunate U.S. acceptance and even admiration of crime and criminals. You see this attitude in TV series like Sopranos and Dexter. It's in the advertising--I recall a pistachio ad that showed a gangster breaking the nuts with a man's head, a clothing ad that featured a police line-up, and one with Joan Rivers trying to get some product as if it were an illegal substance and suggesting that she was willing to prostitute herself in order to get it. You see it in headlines that use words like "bust" for" arrest" or "police raid", "tout" for "promote", etc.
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