Nicks` Cabinet of Curios

Thorwald - The Marks of Cain - T&H - 1965 Another addition to my book collection, a very interesting book on the history of fingerprinting and ballistics, aimed at the general reader.  I`ve not made much progress with it yet as I was part-way through another book when it arrived. However, I`m enjoying what I`ve read so far.  Much of the contents are covered elsewhere - Vidocq, Bertillon, the history of Scotland Yard - but it is quite wide-ranging and some of the cases etc discussed are not so well-known, or not known to  me at any rate.  Mine is the UK first edition, published a year later than the original German edition, but wasn`t especially expensive. 

Rain ; The Best of Bruce Ruffin 1967-71  - Trojan CDTRL449 2001 I only bought this album recently, and there`s a reason for that. Given the title , I assumed it would be basically a re-issue of BR`s Rain album, which I already have, plus maybe a couple of bonus tracks. This impression was re-inforced by the use of a badly-cropped version of the cover illustration from that album on the front.  In fact, only some of the tracks appear from Rain appear on this, and what you get is 27 tracks featuring most phases of his career - solo tracks, The Techniques, The Shades, Pat and Bruce, Tyrone and Bruce, Winston and The Shades. There is nothing here from his band Chain Reaction - I must admit I`m quite glad about that as for some reason I can`t get on with their stuff !   With such a comprehensive collection, my only quibbles are rather minor - I personally would have included Make Love Not War, for instance.  What we get here is the essence of Bru...

Just finished watching this fascinating and very watchable 1940s wartime murder mystery movie.  I won`t be writing a review as it`s been a long day, but I will post a link for anyone wanting to watch the film in the very near future (possibly later this evening).