Ed Gorman’s Sam McCain—small town lawyer and investigator—is at the top of my list for private eye serial characters. He is charming, sa...

Bloodfire , by John Lutz, was published as a hardcover by Henry Holt in 1991, but the edition that caught my eye was Avon’s 1992 paperback e...

A favorite anthology of mine, featuring vintage hardboiled crime stories, is American Pulp ; edited by Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini and Mart...

There aren’t many things better than what I find in used books. Photographs, receipts, business cards, and every so often hard cash. The thi...

Richard S. Wheeler died on February 24, 2019, at the age of 83. He was a brilliant writer and a genuinely nice man. I was lucky enough t...

The Peninsula is “a comma of land hooking into the sea southeast of Melbourne” in Victoria, Australia. A tourist destination known for b...

I have a review article up and running at Mystery Scene’s website. As the title suggests it’s a look at older novels that were reprinted...

Attention Writers and Attendees of the 50th Anniversary Bouchercon, 2019 : YES, there will be an anthology this year! And yes, you ca...

Tropical Heat , by John Lutz, was published as a hardcover by Henry Holt in 1986, but the edition that caught my eye was Avon’s 1987 paperba...

His name was Jimmie Prescott and he is thirty-one years of age. Five foot ten. Slight build.   He’s a loner. A sniper. A killer. The s...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Michael Crichton published eight thrillers under the pseudonym John Lange.   The Lange novels are some...

The Blessing Way , by Tony Hillerman, was published as a hardcover by Harper & Row in 1970, but the edition that caught my eye was Avon’...

Stephen J. Cannell’s fourteenth novel, At First Sight , received mixed reviews from the critics when it was released in 2008.   Publishe...

Farewell, My Lovely , by Raymond Chandler, needs no introduction from me, but here it is anyway. The second novel to feature Philip Marlowe ...

2018 was a great year for reading. I finished, and this is an amazing number for me, 64 titles, which is nine more than last year’s ma...