Sunday, September 14, 2025

Born on this day – Patricia Palmer:


Patricia Palmer


Actress

September 14, 1894 – October 21, 1964

Credits:

A Child of the North (1915); A City Rube (1915); A Gentleman's Agreement (1918); A Kaffir's Gratitude (1916); A Little Madonna (1914); A Lucky Slip (1917); A Pair of Hellions (1924); A Perfect 36 (1923); A Rustic Romeo (1919); A Siren of the Jungle (1916); A Soul Enslaved (1916); Across the Border (1922); All on Account of Towser (1915); Almost a Hero (1915); Almost Divorced (1917); An Intercepted Vengeance (1915); Anne of the Mines (1914); Any Port in a Storm (1913); Auntie (1914); Avenged by Lions (1916); Betty Wakes Up (1917); Beyond the Trail (1921); Bianca (1913); Blondes (1921); Brandon's Last Ride (1914); By Injunction (1918); By the World Forgot (1918); Cold Feet (1922); Could a Man Do More? (1915); Cynthiana (1918); Destiny's Boomerang (1916); Detective and Matchmaker (1914); Dummy Love (1921); Faro Nell, Lookout (1918); Fate's Decision (1916); Francine (1914); Ginger's Reign (1914); Good Gracious, Bobby (1919); Greater Than Love (1921); Green Eyes and Bullets (1917); He Fell on the Beach (1917); Hearts and Clubs (1917); Her Merry Mix-Up (1917); Highlights and Shadows (1916); His Bitter Half (1921); His Kid Sister (1914); His Mother's Portrait (1915); Hold Your Breath (1924); Into the Light (1920); Kidding the Boss (1914); Local Color (1917); Love Will Out (1914); Mareea the Half-Breed (1914); Mareea, the Foster Mother (1914); Marta of the Jungles (1916); Mary Moves In (1919); Mixed Bedrooms (1921); Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923); Naughty Nanette (1927); Old Moddington's Daughters (1913); Only a Sister (1914); Out in Happy Hollow (1914); Polly at the Ranch (1913); Prosecution (1914); Public Approval (1916); Rose of Wolfville (1918); Rounding Up the Law (1922); Rowdy Ann (1919); Sally's Blighted Career (1919); Sand (1920); Sea Sirens (1919); Sisters (1914); Skirts (1917); Some Boy! (1919); Sunny; or, the Cattle Thief (1913); Sunshine Valley (1916); Tangled Hearts (1916); Tell Your Wife Everything (1919); The Arab's Vengeance (1915); The Bait (1916); The Canyon Hold-Up (1918); The Clients of Aaron Green (1918); The Coming of Faro Nell (1918); The Coward (1915); The Cowboy and the Lady (1922); The Cowboy King (1922); The Desert Wolf (1921); The Dismissal of Silver Phil (1918); The Faith of the Strong (1919); The Fifth Wheel (1918); The Fourteenth Man (1917); The Ghosts (1914); The Girl at Nolan's (1915); The Girl from Beyond (1918); The Godless Girl (1928); The Golden Trail (1915); The Good-for-Nothing Brat (1916); The Hammer (1915); The Heart of Tara (1916); The Heir of the Broken O (1918); The Hidden Law (1916); The Home Trail (1918); The Homesteaders (1916); The Honeymooners (1917); The Horse Thief (1914); The Island of Desire (1917); The Jungle Flash Light (1916); The Jungle Outcasts (1916); The King of Kings (1927); The Kiss (1914); The Last Will (1914); The Leopard's Bride (1916); The Level (1914); The Lion's Nemesis (1916); The Little Savage (1929); The Love of Tokiwa (1914); The Marquis and Miss Sally (1918); The Milky Way (1917); The Moment of Victory (1918); The Money Corral (1919); The Mystery of the Hidden House (1914); The Navajo Ring (1915); The Night Riders of Petersham (1914); The Old Oak's Secret (1914); The Ostrich Tip (1916); The Outlaw (1913); The Part Time Wife (1925); The Protest (1915); The Race (1913); The Sage-Brush Gal (1914); The Sea Ghost (1915); The Sea Maiden (1913); The Siren (1915); The Soul's Cycle (1916); The Spell (1913); The Star of India (1916); The Taming of Rita (1915); The Tempest (1921); The Waster (1926); The Web of the Law (1923); The Widow Dangerous (1918); The Winning of Jess (1915); The Woman in the Web (1918); The Wooing of Riley (1918); The Wrong Pair (1913); The Yellow Streak (1913); Their Seaside Tangle (1917); To the Ladies (1923); Tony, the Greaser (1914); Tucson Jennie's Heart (1918); Turkey Dressing (1921); When Love Leads (1915); When the Gods Forgive (1914); Who's Your Friend (1925); With the Mummies' Help (1917); Without Mercy (1925); You Couldn't Blame Her (1919).

Born on this day – Carroll John Daly:


Carroll John Daly


Writer

September 14, 1889 – January 16, 1958

Credits:

Books:

Better Corpses (1940); Man in the Shadows (1928); Mr. Strang (1936); Murder at Our House (1950); Murder from the East (1935); Murder Won’t Wait (1933); Ready to Burn (1951); Tainted Power (1931); The Amateur Murderer (1933); The Emperor of Evil (1937); The Hidden Hand (1929); The Mystery of the Smoking Gun (1936); The Snarl of the Beast (1927); The Tag Murders (1930); The Third Murderer (1931); The White Circle (1926).

Movies and television:

Ticket to a Crime (1934).

Born on this day – Tom Delaney:


Tom Delaney


Blues singer

Songwriter

Pianist

September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963

Credits:

Songs:

Absent Minded Blues; Alabama Blues; Down on Pennsylvania Avenue; Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die); Follow the Deal on Down; Graveyard Love; I Wanna Jazz Some More; If I Lose, Let Me Lose (Mamma Don't Mind); I'm a Back Bitin' Mama; Jazz It Blues; Jazz Me Blues; Log Cabin Blues; Move It On Out of Here; Never Drive a Beggar from Your Door; Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Mornin'; Police Blues; Sinful Blues; Slow and Steady; Somethin' Goin' On Wrong; Southbound Blues; The Down Home Blues; Troublesome Blues; Walk That Broad; You May Go but You'll Come Back Some Day.

It's not hoarding, if it's books:


It's not hoarding, if it's books.

Collect books and build your home library.

Recommended reading - Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1995):


Great Tales of Crime and Detection

Edited by Charles Ardai.

Published by Bbs Pub Corp.
Published in 1995.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0883657716
ISBN-13: 978-0883657713

Description:

A collection of mysteries from a host of best-selling mystery writers features tales by Dick Francis, Graham Greene, Lawrence Bloch, Sarah Paretsky, Loren D. Estleman, John Lutz, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and others.

Contents:

Introduction, by Robert Bloch; Foreword, by John Lutz; Out the window, by Lawrence Block; Major crimes, by Loren D. Estleman; Silent warning, by William J. Carroll, Jr.; The Third Man, by Graham Greene; The Cross of Lorraine, by Isaac Asimov; Nameless Enemy, by Miriam Allen DeFord; Tragedy of a Handkerchief, by Michael Innes; UNC Foils Show Foe, by John Jakes; Dangerows Widows, by Mignon G. Eberhardt; Ride the Lightning, by John Lutz; Till Tuesday, by Jeremiah Healy; The Day of the Losers, by Dick Francis; The Case of the Pietro Andromache, by Sara Paretsky; Susu and the 8:30 Ghost, by Lillian Jackson Braun; The Investigation of Things, by Charles Aardai; The Trailor Murder Mystery, by Abraham Lincoln; The Importance of Trifles, by Avram Davidson; The Double-Barrelled Detective Story, by Mark Twain; The Adventure of the Oval Window, by John H. Ddirckx; Your Appointment is Cancelled, by Antonia Fraser; Le Chateau de L'Arsenic, by Georges Simenon; The Nine Mile Walk, by Harry Kemelman; Crime in Rhyme, by Robert Bloch; The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; The Man with the Twisted Lip, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Betsy Byars, on writing:


When I type a title page,
I hold it and I look at it and I think,
I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

- Betsy Byars.

Saturday, September 13, 2025

On this day in music history - I’ll Meet You In The Morning, by Kristin Asbjørnsen (2013):


I’ll Meet You In The Morning

Album by Kristin Asbjørnsen,
released September 13, 2013.

Track list:

Take My Mother Home; I’m Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan; I Made My Vow To The Lord; Tramping; Shine; Run All The Way; Balm In Gilead; Wasn`t That a Wide River; Do Don`t You Weep For My Baby; No More; Spring Is Coming.