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A Primer in Late 19th- & Early 20th-Century Detective Fiction

Textbook publishers Wadsworth Cengage Learning have a 2009 collection that offers a quick survey of some American writers once popular […]

I’ve been reading and re-reading lately some old Ross Macdonald novels. One of my two copies of 1958’s The Doomsters

My review of Katherine Neville’s The Fire will be published on Sunday, October 19, in the Washington Post, but through the

Today’s L.A. Times features Sarah Weinman’s review of Leonard Cassuto’s Hard-Boiled Sentimentality (a review linked directly here and through her

Catching up again from three states away (or four, depending on how you drive): I’m very excited to hear that

Even missing the festivities surrounding this year’s Bouchercon, I was extremely pleased to hear that Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas

As a supposed crime fiction aficionado and critic and even a writer of mystery fiction, it seems like I should have

I’m rereading John Hart’s books now for an essay I’m writing for the North Carolina Literary Review, and I’ve also been

This week and next provide great boons for lovers of short mystery fiction. First up is the latest installment of

Today’s Washington Post (October 1) ran my review of Night of Thunder, Stephen Hunter’s new Bob Lee Swagger novel. Even those

The latest issue of Mystery Scene has just arrived and features, as always, a wealth of information about the mystery

Quick note between Fall for the Book postings: Today’s Washington Post published my review of the new anthology, D.C. Noir