tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post6009764908460398411..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': TaboosMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-35482410440918915562008-02-09T22:37:00.000+00:002008-02-09T22:37:00.000+00:00Juliet, it would be an interesting challenge, but ...Juliet, it would be an interesting challenge, but I'm not sure I'm up to it! What appeals to me is to confront some of the taboos, but (generally) to leave plenty to the imagination. <BR/><BR/>Xavier, I'd be interested to know your favourite innovative books from the fifties.<BR/><BR/>Jilly, I agree! And I'm sure there was a lot of reading between the lines in the past.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-56218351993445500952008-02-09T17:48:00.000+00:002008-02-09T17:48:00.000+00:00I'm not sure the comment about sex and female myst...I'm not sure the comment about sex and female mystery addicts was ever true. I used to be a librarian in the late 60s and early 70s and was amused to see that the most sexually explicit books - both mystery and otherwise - were borrowed by elderly lady readers. One I remember in particular said 'It was disgusting and I read every page, dear! Have you got any more like it?' All this accompanied by a knowing twinkle. Maybe he only knew very refined lady mystery addicts.Jillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104126307586066155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-82956921121327044932008-02-09T12:41:00.000+00:002008-02-09T12:41:00.000+00:00Autres temps, autres moeurs. It's worth pointing o...<EM>Autres temps, autres moeurs</EM>. It's worth pointing out, however, that the fifties were an astoundingly innovative period for mystery fiction, unlike the dire two decades that followed.Xavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-51981079902909655502008-02-09T11:18:00.000+00:002008-02-09T11:18:00.000+00:00Well I think you've just set yourself an interesti...Well I think you've just set yourself an interesting writer's challenge! Could write a crime story, set in the contemporary world, that conforms to all these strictures and yet is still interesting and realistic? (A 1950s pastiche would be cheating!). I suspect it would be quite difficult . . .Juliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055924620237477722noreply@blogger.com