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Egg, Montague
(Character, short stories)
- Commercial traveller in wines and spirits, and amateur detective, created by Dorothy L. Sayers (also creator of Lord Peter Wimsey.)
See Montague Egg DOSSIER [UNDER CONSTRUCTION] for complete list of appearances.

Elkins, Aaron
- Creator of Gideon Oliver, Skeleton Detective.

Citations:
1. 'Skull-dugger!: An interview with Aaron Elkins, archeaologist and creator of Gideon Oliver,' by Douglas G. Simpson, The Armchair Detective, Volume 24, Spring 1991, Number 2, pg. 146.

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine


(short stories, classified as a pulp)
- Started publishing in 1941, and is still publishing today.

Citations:
1. Short Mystery Fiction Index has tables of contents from 1990 onward.

ESCAPE


(RADIO PROGRAM)
- ''We offer you....Escape!'' The CBS anthology program Suspense proving to be popular, the powers-that-be decided to create another, similar program, and called it Escape. It ran, in various days and timeslots, from 1947 to 1954 (and was off the air from 1951-1952.) The program was produced and directed by William N. Robson. Its theme music: 'A Night on Bald Mountain,' by Mussorgsky.

Episode Synopses [A CAIRO FEATURE]:
1. Bloodbath, starring Vincent Price. June 30, 1950.

Citations:
1. DOSSIER: The One About The Rats. The most famous Escape episode, Three Skeleton Key, starring Vincent Price. March 17, 1950.
2. Same Time, Same Station, by Ron Lackmann, Facts on File, 1996.

Ezines
(TOPIC)
- On-line magazines.
Thrilling Detective. Fiction and non-fiction articles, private detective database. Excellent site.
Deutsches Entertainment Magazines. Lots of entertainment news from the German point of view. Has television series episode guides for many crime series, including Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone - (With Umbrella, Charm, and Bowler) otherwise known as The Avengers, and Mord ist ihr Hobby, otherwise known as Murder, She Wrote!


This page last updated on May 15, 2000.

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