Cape Cod Voices

Synopsis – AuthorInterview of Dashiell Hammett Our AuthorInterview of Dashiell Hammett shows him as a true Knight of the Golden Age of Detective Writing, and his works will endure in spite of the many hardships his life brought him. Tuberculosis, alcohol addiction and some drug addiction took atoll on his physical body, yet he survived to write seven novels and numerous short stories which were pu...

Synopsis -Narrative motivation Mr. Felix duPont has revealed to the reader his motive for the house party and the detectives involved. Now each detective writer will reveal to the reader their choice of murder victim. Stay Tuned as the writers choose a murder victim.

Mr. duPont has finally revealed the real motive behind the house party. Dashiell Hammet feels that something more is going on and he intends to find out. Stay tuned...

Join an author interview as eight famous Detective Fiction Writers gather to craft the greatest mystery of their careers. Discover story motivations and insights. Stay tuned...

Our story moves on. All the guests have arrived, and during dinner they find out who the murder victim is to be. Stay tuned...

Literature Discussion - The year is 1938. Join the Author Interview as eight famous American Detective Fiction writers come together on New Year’s Eve as the guests of Felix duPont of Oyster Harbors who has invited them for a weekend house party. The setting is almost gothic. Old mansion, snow storm, nervous guests. The invitation said there was to be a murder, a Murder At Midnight. The question w...

Our Famous American Detective Fiction Writers come together on New Years Eve as the guests of Felix duPont of Oyster Harbors. Felix has brought them together to commit a murder. A Murder at Midnight. Stay tuned...

Join in an author interview in 1938 as eight famous Detective Writers gather at an isolated mansion in Oyster Harbors as guests for a house party to craft the most difficult story of their career. Discover the story motivation and insights of the author as we create a Murder at Midnight. Stay tuned...

William Shakespeare wrote many plays with murder in them. He killed off kings and destroyed countries in his plays. We discuss two such plays, more well known. Hamlet and Macbeth... Stay tuned.

A club of well known detective writers in the UK. Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers were members of this secret club. They formed a club in 1920 to 1930. It was called the Detection Club during the GoldenAge of Detective Writing.

James never developed a hard-boiled detective but instead, wrote love stories. Brutal, frank, passionate love stories. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" Lana Turner played in that one, and Joan Crawford played "Mildred Pierce" are two of his more well known novels that have been made into films...

Raymond Chandler created Philip Marlow and wrote him into 7 novels. Chandler's best known novel, The Big Sleep has been adapted into three films, two plays, a TV series, and BBC4 Radio shows twice. Amazing! He also wrote screen plays. Stay tuned...

Agatha the Queen of Crime wrote 66 detective novels, numerous short stories and sold billions of books. Her characters have lived for 105 years and are still being read. Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence are still being re-created in TV series, radio shows and films. Stay tuned...

Ngaio Marsh created Roderick Alleyn, Detective as her protagonist. He was not related to royalty but a middle-class policeman. She wrote 13 novels with him. She was also a member of the Detection Club. Stay Tuned.....

The bio of a character Protagonist from Wikipedia. It is so believable, a great character study, you have to remember he isn't real. Stay Tuned...

Meet Albert Campion created by Margery Allingham in 1929 as a minor character but became her major character in 17 more novels and numerous short stories. Stay tuned...

The origin of Halloween and how it evolved. Banned horror books. Classic films of Halloween. Stay tuned...

Dracula is the most feared vampire ever. Bram Stoker wrote that book in 1897 when he was 50 years old. Was he influenced by our Edgar Allen Poe? The book has been banned off and on but considered a classic. It still gives me the chills... how about you? Stay tuned...

Howard gave us the story behind his books, three to date and the research and highlights as to why he wrote them. His newest book, Death on the River will be out soon so stay tuned....

Do you know who the Queens are and what characters they created? What about the American Detective Fiction Writers? Which characters did they create? Stay tuned... find out. You no doubt have read many of them

Gloria is a prolific writer and during this podcast we discuss her 15 books plus what she is currently working on now. Stay tuned....

We discussed banned books, Fahrenheit451, and my difficulties with an almost finished Sci-Fi Novel. (to finish or delete). Stay Tuned

We discussed The Golden Age of Detective Fiction, the Detection Club, the Queens of Crime and Agath Christie. An excerpt from the Mysterious Affair at Styles...and more. Stay tuned...

Introducing a new biography by Richard A. Kopley showing us the human side of Edgar Allen Poe. This bio does change the way we view Poe. Stay tuned...

Changes are coming to the podcast from the title to the intro to the content. Would love your opinion...Stay tuned.....