tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post5391855187939709345..comments2024-03-28T07:56:38.659+00:00Comments on The View from the Blue House: C.H.B. Kitchin, Crime at ChristmasRob Kitchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567424969308636082noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post-71245542894650884072009-12-09T09:35:13.499+00:002009-12-09T09:35:13.499+00:00Thanks, Philip. Lots to go and explore there! I&...Thanks, Philip. Lots to go and explore there! I'll also have a bit of a scout round to see if I can make a collection of authorial Kitchins. It should be doable given I suspect there are very few. <br /><br />Kerrie, I think this post constitutes letter K as this was the sum total of what I could find out about him! Perhaps I need to try a little harder on the biographical research.Rob Kitchinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05567424969308636082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post-67868898084823004772009-12-09T07:22:32.707+00:002009-12-09T07:22:32.707+00:00Rob you can add this to Suggest a Christmas Title ...Rob you can add this to <a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2009/12/invitation-suggest-christmas-title.html" rel="nofollow">Suggest a Christmas Title if you like</a>, and then next week you'll be able to use it in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for the letter K :-)Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post-70986008038497413872009-12-08T21:03:05.968+00:002009-12-08T21:03:05.968+00:00Ah, 'twas I who mentioned Kitchin's book o...Ah, 'twas I who mentioned Kitchin's book on FF when Kerrie appealed for Christmas titles, Rob. I could not write those few words without thinking of another Kitchin, my good friend Laurence. There is a crime fiction connection even here, though on screen. Laurence was an actor in the 30s and 40s, stage and screen, and then a screenwriter, the latter including some contribution to Kind Hearts and Coronets, indeed. He made fine translations of Renaissance sonnets from French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, but thereafter he was known chiefly as a most distinguished drama critic in the London qualities, in his books Mid-Century Drama and Drama in the Sixties, and various essays and chapters passim, chiefly on modern drama and Shakespeare. But one of his books might interest you particularly if you can find it. Laurence broadcast a good deal on the BBC Third Programme in one mode or other, and he wrote for it three 'Trials' -- of Byron, Bowdler and Machiavelli, the intent of each being to determine whether these three were, and continued to be, deserving of their rather seamy reputations. Brilliant and ingenious stuff, and happily collected and published in Three on Trial: An Experiment in Biography, published by Pall Mall Press, 1959, with nice line drawings by Arthur Horner. The book has a rather splendid preface which gives some sense of Laurence's striking character also. And I'll just add that if you look at the entry for Agatha Christie's Unexpected Guest on Wikipedia, there is therein a quotation from Laurence's succint review. I wonder if there are enough authorial Kitchins for you to make a collection, Rob.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com