This morning while I was getting ready for work, I heard a brief news report on NPR about a wildfire on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Immediately I listened closer to catch any references to locations I may know, and was rewarded with a mention of the city of …
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Literary resurrection
I'm a Dorothy L Sayers fan, so when Sharon on Early Modern Notes mentioned a new Harriet Vane novel, I was on Amazon in a flash.
Read More »Case Closed
Checking out the first volume of Gosho Aoyama's comic mystery manga series. . .
Read More »Murder of A Small-Town Honey
Chokeberry Days + Murder Most Foul
Read More »Johnny Dynamite: Underworld
Max Allan Collins & Terry Beatty's psychotronic hard-boiled graphic novel. . .
Read More »The Iron Wagon
Norwegian cartoonist Jason adapts a period mystery story - in animal drag.
Read More »Murder She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
J.B. Fletcher returns - do you care?
Read More »The George W. Bush of Crime Fiction
S.T. Karnick thinks he knows why Erle Stanley Gardner (of Perry Mason fame) is still popular and important: This code of ethics is part of something bigger: Gardner’s view of religious faith. Characters pray, and their prayers are answered. In the Ed Jenkins novelette “In Full of Account,” the narrator-protagonist, …
Read More »The Mysterious Fan Boy & Friends
A look at five of 2002's top genre comics.
Read More »The Cold Six Thousand in Paperback
I took my son to his bass guitar lesson a couple of months ago. I was sitting there looking at the NY Times Sunday Book Review section, and I turned to page 12 for part 2 of the review of the new Primo Levi biography. My eye drifted over to …
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