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Pssst! Crime Writers on the Loose 27 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
Thanks to an invitation from Iowa novelist Max Allan Collins, I spent part of this last Saturday at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle, participating in On the Lam, a near-secret conference sponsore...
Be Cool, Elmore Leonard: Paying Homage to a Man Who Proved Hard Work Pays Off, Part II 25 Aug 2013 | 10:49 am
A funeral was held earlier today for Elmore Leonard, the acclaimed Detroit, Michigan-area crime novelist who died this last Tuesday at age 87. Detroit Free Press staff reporter Jim Schaefer explains t...
Still the Best Bond 24 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
As The HMSS Weblog reminds us, today marks the 83rd birthday of Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who first brought James Bond, Ian Fleming’s Agent 007, to the big screen.
Be Cool, Elmore Leonard: Paying Homage to a Man Who Proved Hard Work Pays Off, Part I 24 Aug 2013 | 05:22 am
Like so many other enthusiastic readers of crime fiction, I was saddened to learn earlier this week that Elmore Leonard--the author known as the “Dickens of Detroit” (even though he’d long moved away ...
More Than Bucks Behind Cornwell’s Switch 22 Aug 2013 | 09:49 pm
Patricia Cornwell’s upcoming move from her present publishing house, Penguin, to HarperCollins might have as much to do with getting her fictional medical examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, to the screen as...
Tapping Into Barclay’s Methods 21 Aug 2013 | 06:18 am
I was lucky enough last week to interview Linwood Barclay, author of the new thriller A Tap on the Window. You’ll find the results of our exchange in my Kirkus Reviews column posted earlier today. I’...
Elmore Leonard Dead at 87 21 Aug 2013 | 03:53 am
We’re so sad to report on the loss of crime-fiction legend Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, LaBrava, and Rum Punch) who died earlier today, after suffering a stroke thre...
Bullet Points: From Thompson to “Trek” 20 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
• Jim Thompson is best remembered for having composed such noirish tales as The Killer Inside Me (1952), The Kill-Off (1957), and The Grifters (1963). But it’s his 1967 novel, Ironside, published to c...
“Where Is Miss Froy?” 18 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
Earlier in the week, I wrote on this page about Sunday evening’s debut of The Lady Vanishes, a new, British TV adaptation of Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel, The Wheel Spins. That 90-minute mystery, set...
Playing the Stalk Market 17 Aug 2013 | 05:39 am
For some reason I missed spotting Pop Culture Nerd’s request this last spring that crime-fiction enthusiasts send in their nominations of authors and books that ought to be in the running for the 2013...
