Born on this day – Zelda Popkin:

Zelda Popkin

Writer

July 5, 1898 – May 25, 1983

Credits:

Books:

A Death of Innocence (1971); Dead Man's Gift (1941); Dear Once (1975); Death Wears a White Gardenia (1938); Herman Had Two Daughters (1968); Murder in the Mist (1940); No Crime for a Lady (1942); Open Every Door (1956); Quiet Street (1951); Small Victory (1947); So Much Blood (1944); The Journey Home (1945); Time Off for Murder (1940); Walk Through the Valley (1949).

Movies and television:

A Death of Innocence (1971); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Matinee Theatre (1958).

Born on this day – Anthony Berkeley Cox:

Anthony Berkeley Cox

Writer

July 5, 1893 – March 9, 1971

Credits:

Books:

A Scream in Soho (1940); A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (2020); Antidote to Venom (1938); Ask a Policeman (1933); Bats in the Belfry (1937); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Bodies from the Library (2019); Calamity in Kent (1950); Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (2015); Castle Skull (1931); Checkmate to Murder (1944); Continental Crimes (2017); Crimson Snow (2016); Crossed Skis (1952); Dead Mrs. Stratton / Jumping Jenny (1933); Death Has Deep Roots (1951); Death in Fancy Dress (1933); Death in the House (1939); Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel (1936); Death Makes a Prophet (1947); Death of a Busybody (1942); Death of an Airman (1934); Death of an Author (2024); Death of Anton (1936); Death on the Cherwell (1935); Death on the Riviera (1952); Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (2019); Due to a Death (1963); Excellent Intentions (1938); Family Matters (1933); Fell Murder (1944); Fire in the Thatch (1946); Foreign Bodies (2017); Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (2018); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (2021); It Walks by Night (1930); Jumping Jenny (1933); Malice Aforethought (1931); Miraculous Mysteries (2017); Mr Priestley's Problem (1927); Murder at the Manor (2016); Murder by Matchlight (1945); Murder in Piccadilly (1936); Murder in the Basement (1932); Murder in the Mill-Race (1952); Murder in the Museum (1938); Murder of a Lady (1931); Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer (2021); Murder Underground (1934); Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery (1943); Mystery in the Channel (1931); Mystery in White (1937); Not to Be Taken (1937); Panic Party (1934); Portrait of a Murderer (1933); Quick Curtain (1934); Resorting to Murder (2015); Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery (1927); Scarweather (1934); Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (1960); Serpents in Eden (2016); Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2020); Seven Dead (1939); Silent Nights (2015); Six Against the Yard (1937); Smallbone Deceased (1950); Somebody at the Door (1943); Surfeit of Suspects (1964); The 12.30 from Croydon (1934); The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939); The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook (2004); The Belting Inheritance (1965); The Body in the Dumb River (1961); The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937); The Chianti Flask (1934); The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2018); The Christmas Egg (1958); The Colour Of Murder (1957); The Cornish Coast Murder (1935); The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Danger Within / Death in Captivity (1952); The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (1942); The Division Bell Mystery (1932); The End of the Web (1976); The Hog's Back Mystery (1933); The Incredible Crime (1931); The Lake District Murder (1935); The Last Best Friend (1967); The Layton Court Mystery (1925); The Long Arm of the Law (2017); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Man Who Didn't Fly (1955); The Measure of Malice (2019); The Mysterious Mr. Badman (1934); The Notting Hill Mystery (1862); The Piccadilly Murder (1929); The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums (2019); The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929); The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929); The Port of London Murders (1938); The Progress of a Crime (1960); The Santa Klaus Murder (1936); The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983); The Second Shot (1930); The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham (1930); The Silk Stocking Murders (1928); The Spoilt Kill (1961); The Spy Paramount (1934); The Sussex Downs Murder (1936); The Traitor (1936); The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears (1926); The Wychford Poisoning Case (1926); The Z Murders (1931); Thirteen Guests (1938); Top Storey Murder (1931); Trial and Error (1937); Trouble on the Thames (1945); Two-Way Murder (2021); Verdict of Twelve (1940); Weekend at Thrackley (1934).

Movies and television:

American Playhouse (1987); Detective (1968); Flight from Destiny (1941); Leave It to Todhunter (1958); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Malice Aforethought (2005); Mystery!: Malice Aforethought (1979); Smrt pocestné paní (1969); Suspicion (1941 / 1948); TV Teatro (1958).

Recommended reading - Backyard Homesteading: A Back-to-Basics Guide to Self-Sufficiency (2011):

Backyard Homesteading: A Back-to-Basics Guide to Self-Sufficiency

by David Toht.

Grow and preserve your own vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries, keep chickens, goats, and bees.
Make Beer, Wine, and Cider.

Published 2011.

ISBN-10: 1580115217
ISBN-13: 978-1580115216
Creative Homeowner

Back cover description:

BACKYARD HOMESTEADING

GETTING STARTED

Benefits of pure food
Family recreation
Local regulations
Potential yields and savings

RAISING VEGETABLES AND HERBS

Garden planning/layout
Structures/irrigation
Vegetable profiles
Planting techniques
Composting/healthy soil
Seasonal gardening

GROWING FRUITS, BERRIES, AND NUTS

Planting fruit trees and bushes
Fruit profiles
Organic pest control
Grafting and pruning
Harvesting methods

RAISING CHICKENS

The joy of chickens
Collecting eggs
Care and feeding tips
Other small animals

RAISING GOATS

Benefits of goat milk
Structures/fencing
Care and feeding tips
Other large animals

BEEKEEPING

Benefits of beekeeping
Care and harvesting
Building hives
Collecting honey

HARVEST HOME

Canning/drying/freezing
Making beer, wine, cider
Making jerky, sausage
Making jams, jellies
Pickling/salting/smoking
Building root cellars

Veronica Roth, on writing:

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

- Veronica Roth.

On this day in music history:

Promise Me by Beverley Craven (1990)

American V: A Hundred Highways by Johnny Cash (2006)

Essence by Reneé Michele (2011)

Promise Me

Song by Beverley Craven,

released July 4, 1990.

American V: A Hundred Highways

Album by Johnny Cash,

released July 4, 2006.

Track list: Help Me; God’s Gonna Cut You Down; Like The 309 (the last song Johnny Cash wrote and recorded); If You Could Read My Mind; Further On Up the Road; The Evening Train; I Came To Believe; Love’s Been Good To Me; A Legend In My Time; Rose Of My Heart; Four Strong Winds; I’m Free From The Chain Gang Now.

Essence

Album by Reneé Michele,

released July 4, 2011.

Track list: Believe; Yearning; Innocence; Another Time; The Last Song; Greensleeves; The Gift; No Words; Essence; Stillness.

On this day in movie history - Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 movie & novel):

Somebody Up There Likes Me

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Ernest Lehman,

based on the autobiography by Rocky Graziano with Rowland Barber,

was released in the United States on July 4, 1956.
Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Harold J. Stone, Joseph Buloff, Sal Mineo, Ray Stricklyn, Robert Loggia, Steve McQueen, Angela Cartwright, Jack Orrison, Frank Campanella, Dean Jones.

Recommended reading:

Somebody Up There Likes Me

By Rocky Graziano with Rowland Barber.

Filmed as Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), directed by Robert Wise.

Published by Ecco Press.

Published 1954.

ISBN 13: 9780880013932

ISBN 10: 0880013931

ASIN: 0880013931

Paperback.

Description:

The blood-soaked autobiography of a fist-happy hoodlum…

Rocky’s right hand saw him through three stretches in reform school, four man-size prisons, the middle-weight championship of the world, and a career as a television comedian with Martha Raye.

We get a view of what it’s like to be on the lam from truant officers, probation officers, goons, cops, and creeps too stupid to be anything but legitimate. What it’s like to hit first or get hit! – Saturday Review.

On this day in movie history - The Unholy Three (1925 movie & novel):

The Unholy Three

directed by Tod Browning,

written by Tod Robbins, Waldemar Young,

based on the novel by Tod Robbins,

released in the United States on July 4, 1925.

Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles, Matthew Betz, Edward Connelly, William Humphrey, E. Alyn Warren, Margie Angus, Mary Angus, Violet N. Cane, Walter P. Cole, D'Arcy Corrigan, Carrie Daumery, Delno Fritz, Alice Julian, Peter Kortes, Mickey McBan, John Merkyl, John Millerta, Louis Morrison, Marjorie Morton, Walter Perry, Louis Shank, Vera Vance, Carrie Clark Ward, Charles Wellesley, Percy Williams.

Recommended reading:

The Unholy Three

By Tod Robbins.

Published by A.L. Burt Company,

First published 1917.

ASIN: B0DM4DFX7Y

Description:

Step right up, folks, and prepare to have your blood run cold as you meet the strangest, most bizarre trio of misfits ever spawned by a carnival of TWEEDLEDEE, an adult man trapped in the body of a three-year-old toddler, whose mask of childlike innocence hides a seething brain plotting hideous revenge against all that is sane and normal! HERCULES, the circus strongman, brutal, bestial, reveling in carnage and murder – yet the submissive slave of a deadly dwarf! ECHO, the expert ventriloquist with the uncanny ability to throw his voice so that lifeless wooden dummies seem to speak even as you or I! Together, they are THE UNHOLY THREE, star attractions of Tod Robbins’ classic novel of hate, murder and madness on and off the midway. Best known as author of the story which inspired the still-controversial fear-film FREAKS, Robbins first stunned the public with this intense account of a ruthless war on society waged by a triad of carny castaways.