If Miss Marple's village had boasted a bridge club, it might have been very like the one in Pemberton, the North Ontario setting for this Canadian bridge mysteryA" novel. The story evokes the slow pace of life in a small rural town, and whether there even was a murder is part of the mystery. The ga[...]
Readers first encountered the Pemberton Bridge Club, along with the 'Jay's Nest' bridge columns, in Ken Allan's first novel, Deadly Endplay. This time there is no mysterious death involved, but perhaps worse than that (for the bridge players) is the growing suspicion that someone in their midst is [...]
Pop Art's influence continues to be felt more than a half century since its advent, as this engaging book deftly shows. Early Pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol adopted alternately critical, embracing, or ambivalent attitudes toward America's rapidly proliferating[...]