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1) Detectionary, Edited by Otto Penzler, Chris Steinbrunner, and Marvin Lachman. Ballantine Books. 1971. 340 pages

Detectionary, Edited by Otto Penzler, Chris Steinbrunner, and Marvin Lachman.

Beresford, Tuppence and Tommy Errata: (pg. 211) During World War I, Tommy Beresford is working for British Intelligence[…] Prudence ‘’Tuppence’’ Cowley is a nurse[…]. When Tuppence is recruited for spy work, she falls in and out of danger; she also falls in love with Tommy. They marry after the war but, soon becoming bored with peacetime activities, they form the detective agency ‘’Blunt’s Brilliant Detectives.’’ Correction: The narrative of their career on page 211 makes it seem as if their first adventure takes place during WWI. Actually, it takes place just after the end of the war. The first Agatha Christie book to feature Tommy and Tuppence is The Secret Adversary. Tuppence is not recruited to become a spy, but rather to ferret out the spying activities of others. They do not ‘form’ the detective agency ‘’Blunt’s Brilliant Detectives.’’ In their second appearance, in a collection of short stories called Partners in Crime, the secret agent Mr. Carter (from Secret Adversary) recruits them to take over this firm from the original Mr. Blunt, who was a spy for the other side. Again, they are not indulging in espionage of their own, but rather marking time solving mystery cases until a foreign spy walks into their trap. Source: The Secret Adversary, Partners in Crime. Bond, James Errata: (pg. 226) Bond’s motives are personal as well as professional; Goldfinger has killed one of Bond’s compliant girls (Shirley Eaton) by painting her body gold. Correction: The girl cannot be termed ‘one of Bond’s compliant girls.’ She was an accomplice of Goldfinger’s, helping him out with card-shark scams. Goldfinger kills her because he was in the middle of a card game with a mark, and lost money because she stopped telling him the cards (because Bond enters her hotel room where she lurks with binoculars to view the cards on the veranda below, and stops her). Bond may still have regarded it as ‘personal,’ because it was thanks to Bond’s intervention that she was killed, but she was not one of ‘Bond’s compliant girls.’ Source: Goldfinger. Charles, Nick and Nora Errata: (pg. 229/30) Nick casually throws her [Nora’s cousin Selma, played by Elissa Landi] gun into the river….[in describing the plot of the film After the Thin Man. Correction: Nick did not throw Selma’s gun in the river. Selma’s long suffering friend David (played by James Stewart) did. Source: After the Thin Man. Falcon, The Errata: (pg. 235) Gay Lawrence is introduced in The Gay Falcon (1941) as a bored young upperclass type who promises to enter the family brokerage house and abandon his amateur sleuthing….. Correction: The movie opens with Gay Lawrence and his associate ‘Goldie’ Locke in their brokerage office on their first day in business, bored with it already. It is never referred to as a ‘family brokerage house,’ although the globe trotting Lawrence is clearly well off with a huge apartment (huge enough to be a house) and a butler, with money which he may indeed have inherited from his family. Nevertheless, in the movie, this is not stated. Source: The Gay Falcon. [Note: At the time this movie was made, the word gay didn't have the connotation it does now. Here, Gay is simply a first name. Its use in the movie’s title is a pun on the word’s original definition - to mean one who is carefree and happy-go-lucky…and quite a ladies’ man.] Errata: (pg. 235) An error of omission. The book lists the 1st, 3rd, and 4th films, but doesn’t give the title of the 2nd. Correction: The second film in the series of four Falcon movies starring George Sanders was A Date With the Falcon, about the kidnapping of a scientist who has discovered how to make artificial diamonds which are indistinguishable from the real thing. [After Sanders left the role, nine more Falcon movies were made, starring his real life brother Tom Conway as Tom Lawrence, also known as the Falcon.] Source: A Date With the Falcon . Hound of the Baskervilles, The Errata: (pg. 178) Young Sir Henry Baskerville, who has spent most of his life in Canada, is heir to a fortune when Sir Charles Baskerville is killed by a phantom hound […] Henry tells Sherlock Holmes that someone has stolen his boot, and the detective immediately suspects the ghostly animal may strike again. Correction: Sir Charles dies of a heart attack, we know not why, and Sherlock Holmes doesn’t suspect the phantom hound at any point in the proceedings. Source: The Hound of the Baservilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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